The year's best photojournalism
A solitary chamois, mud-covered rescuers, and more
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Jacob Lambert
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Rescuers are tended to by firefighters following flooding in Las Tejerias, Venezuela. (October 10)
(Image credit: REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

Horses during a traditional game of kokpar in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (November 5)
(Image credit: REUTERS/Konstantin Chalabov)

Water buffaloes are seen near an oilfield in Basra, Iraq. (July 18)
(Image credit: HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images)

A man takes a quail out of a net in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip. (September 20)
(Image credit: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

A chamois is silhouetted during sunset in Pontechianale, Italy. (August 11)
(Image credit: MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images)

A bullet-riddled wall of a house damaged in a gunbattle in Srinagar, India. (March 16)
(Image credit: AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

A child looks at a giant papier mache jack-o-lantern in Valletta, Malta. (October 24)
(Image credit: REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi)

A schoolgirl runs in Dobryanka, Ukraine. (February 21)
(Image credit: AP Photo/Oleksandr Ratushniak)

A boy runs towards a United Nations helicopter in Bunia, eastern Congo. (February 22)
(Image credit: AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Ukrainian soldiers try to receive mobile service near Kharkiv, Ukraine. (November 10)
(Image credit: IHOR TKACHOV/AFP via Getty Images)

A statue of Dante Alighieri is covered with sandbags in Kyiv. (March 23)
(Image credit: AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A girl sleeps while covered with sand on a beach in Karachi, Pakistan. (October 25)
(Image credit: ASIF HASSAN/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.