The week's best photos
A tomato fight, painting behind bars, and more

Smoke and ash billow upwards after an eruption on Mount Etna in Italy
People throw tomatoes at each other during the annual Tomatina festival in Sutamarchán, Colombia
A Barbary macaque baby clings to its mother at Trentham Monkey Forest in Stoke-on-Trent, England
The latest graffiti artwork by British artist Banksy has appeared in Marseille, France
Students from a dance school stand outside the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, Romania
Prison inmates paint a park in Bogotá, Colombia
A drag queen attends the Pride Parade in West Hollywood, California
A researcher from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute captures a bat in Gamboa, Panama
Sargassum seaweed surrounds a dock in Fajardo, Puerto Rico
Architect and artist Franz Delgado paints a temporary flood gate at the Panama Canal in Panama City
Waste pickers climb over the Dandora landfill in Nairobi, Kenya
Muslim pilgrims pray at dawn on Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia
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Anahi Valenzuela has worked as an editorial assistant at The Week since 2022, where she assists with magazine content and covers the week's best photos. She started her career as a media producer at The Daily Californian and a writer for College Magazine.
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