The week's best photos

A tomato fight, painting behind bars, and more

Mount Etna

Smoke and ash billow upwards after an eruption on Mount Etna in Italy

(Image credit: Fabrizio Villa / Getty Images)

The Tomatina festival

People throw tomatoes at each other during the annual Tomatina festival in Sutamarchán, Colombia

(Image credit: Raul Arboleda / Getty Images)

A Barbary macaque baby clings to its mother at Trentham Monkey Forest, Stoke-on-Trent

A Barbary macaque baby clings to its mother at Trentham Monkey Forest in Stoke-on-Trent, England

(Image credit: Joshua Torlop / Trentham Monkey Forest)

Artwork by Banksy

The latest graffiti artwork by British artist Banksy has appeared in Marseille, France

(Image credit: Viken Kantarci / Getty Images)

Students from a dance school wear white dresses

Students from a dance school stand outside the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, Romania

(Image credit: Andreea Alexandru / AP)

Inmates painting

Prison inmates paint a park in Bogotá, Colombia

(Image credit: Fernando Vergara / AP)

A person walks during a parade

A drag queen attends the Pride Parade in West Hollywood, California

(Image credit: Daniel Cole / Reuters)

A bat

A researcher from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute captures a bat in Gamboa, Panama

(Image credit: Matias Delacroix / AP)

A wooden dock

Sargassum seaweed surrounds a dock in Fajardo, Puerto Rico

(Image credit: Ricardo Arduengo / Reuters)

A painting

Architect and artist Franz Delgado paints a temporary flood gate at the Panama Canal in Panama City

(Image credit: Martin Bernetti / Getty Images)

Recyclers collect garbage

Waste pickers climb over the Dandora landfill in Nairobi, Kenya

(Image credit: Simon Maina / Getty Images)

Muslim pilgrims pray at dawn on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat during the climax of the Hajj pilgrimage

Muslim pilgrims pray at dawn on Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia

(Image credit: Hazem Bader / AFP / Getty Images)

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Anahi Valenzuela, The Week US

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.