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A man offers prayers by the roadside as pigeons fly past on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India

A man offers prayers by the roadside as pigeons fly past on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India

(Image credit: Manan Vatsyayana / AFP / Getty Images)

A visitor looks at a robot in the likeness of Elon Musk at artist Michael Winkelmann's Regular Animals installation at Art Basel in Miami Beach, Florida

A visitor looks at a robot in the likeness of Elon Musk in artist Michael Winkelmann's installation at Art Basel in Miami Beach, Florida

(Image credit: Lynne Sladky / AP Photo)

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Stephen Kelly

Stephen Kelly is a photo editor and illustrator for The Week Digital, creating original artwork to accompany articles and social media, as well as curating photography and cartoons. Before joining the team in 2023, Stephen managed the photographic archive for multimedia publisher Future, working on everything from picture editing and content licensing to directing photo shoots. He has also been a freelance illustrator, contributing editorial artwork to magazines and websites including T3, Rock Sound, Tom’s Guide, Property Week and Cycling Plus, while also writing about music for Total Guitar and MusicRadar. Stephen studied illustration at the University of Dundee and Ontario College of Art and Design, specialising in narrative art (he once self-published his own comic, it was weird), and loves to incorporate storytelling and humour into his work.