The week's best photojournalism
A field of poppies, a cold shower and more
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Brigid Kennedy
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People take part in the annual Summer Solstice Yoga event in Times Square, New York City.
(Image credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images)

A girl takes a cooling "shower" in a public fountain during a heat wave in Lithuania.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

An aerial photograph captures the perfect view of a Chinese rice paddy designed to look like two pandas.
(Image credit: STR / AFP via Getty Images.)

An infant spider monkey sits with its mother at a nature reserve in Colombia.
(Image credit: Photo by RAUL ARBOLEDA / AFP via Getty Images.)

A woman paddles along Lady Bird Lake during a heat wave in Austin, Texas.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay)

The shadows of a child and a dog are projected onto the sand in the Iraqi city of Basra.
(Image credit: HUSSEIN FALEH / AFP via Getty Images)

A man cools off with water from a pipe in Pakistan.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz)

Britain's King Charles III, Queen Consort Camilla and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, react during a Royal Ascot horse race.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Workers mow the edge of a country road in Germany.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Switzerland's artistic swimming team surfaces during a performance in the Team Free Preliminary of the European Games.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel)

A flock of sheep eat at a farm in Tunisia.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Jihed Abidellaoui)

A young artistic gymnast from Borna trains in a shredding pit ahead of the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Annegret Hilse)
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Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.