The week's best photojournalism
Bursting firecrackers, a human tower, and more
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Jacob Lambert
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Boys play on old mattresses in Cape Town, South Africa.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Esa Alexander)

A worker delivers voting machines to a polling station in Rio de Janeiro.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A woman waits for a train in Rio de Janeiro.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A woman uses a flashlight during a power outage caused by Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Florida.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Marco Bello)

A soldier patrols a railway station in Kupiansk Vuzlovyi, Ukraine.
(Image credit: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Tire fires set by protesters burn near Ramallah, West Bank.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

A man walks amidst bursting firecrackers during a festival in Takua Pa, Thailand.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Jorge Silva)

An opera actor is reflected in a backstage mirror in Ampang, Malaysia.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain)

A human tower forms during a festival in Tarragona, Spain.
(Image credit: JOSEP LAGO/AFP via Getty Images)

Leeds United's Illan Meslier on the ground during a soccer match in Leeds, Britain.
(Image credit: Action Images via Reuters/Lee Smith)

The aftermath of a riot and stampede that followed a soccer match in Malang, Indonesia.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan)

Boats piled in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers.
(Image credit: RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Jacob Lambert is the art director of TheWeek.com. He was previously an editor at MAD magazine, and has written and illustrated for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly, and The Millions.