Students win the election in Serbia, Flávio Bolsonaro flees Brazil, a train crash in Spain and Obama on the midterm campaign trail – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
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© Photograph: Marko Drobnjaković/AP
© Photograph: Marko Drobnjaković/AP
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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© Composite: AAP, NurPhoto/Shutterstock, Anadolu/Getty Images
© Composite: AAP, NurPhoto/Shutterstock, Anadolu/Getty Images
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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© Composite: Edgar Su/Reuters
© Composite: Edgar Su/Reuters
Afshar’s experiences as a young woman in Iran have shaped her artistic career in Australia, focusing her eye on the humanity within inhumane systems
When Hoda Afshar was a teenager, coming of age in theocratic and authoritarian Iran in the 1990s, she and her friends were repeatedly arrested and physically punished by the “morality police”, for wearing their hijabs incorrectly in public and for attending underground parties. “They used to put a few of us in small solitary confinement cells together for a night or two, it was very common for my generation to experience that,” she says.
“We are part of the nasl-e sukhteh, or ‘burned generation’; the generation born after the 1979 revolution, who had to pay the price for many of the transformations and changes that happened.”
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© Photograph: Adam Ferguson/The Guardian
© Photograph: Adam Ferguson/The Guardian
As the prestigious award marks its 30th anniversary, this year’s nominees consider hidden human labour, life in war-torn Ukraine and the Buddhist concept of rebirth
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© Photograph: Carlos Ayesta/musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, photo Carlos Ayesta
© Photograph: Carlos Ayesta/musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, photo Carlos Ayesta
© Photograph: Carlos Ayesta/musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, photo Carlos Ayesta
The National Gallery of Victoria presents the first major Australian solo exhibition of the Melbourne artist, whose work references African studio photography, family archives, Catholic imagery and science fiction, while paying tribute to the myths and traditions of Dinka Bor culture in South Sudan.
Passage: The Art of Atong Atem will run from Friday until 14 June at the Ian Potter Centre in Federation Square. Entry is free
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© Photograph: Atong Atem/National Gallery of Victoria
© Photograph: Atong Atem/National Gallery of Victoria
© Photograph: Atong Atem/National Gallery of Victoria
‘Les didn’t wear gloves as he needed to be able to feel the bees so he didn’t crush them. “Should I put them on my face?” he said. “Sure!” I replied’
The jumping-off point for my Bare Handed series was a bird becoming trapped in the netting around the raspberry bushes in my backyard. It made me think of the problem humans have interacting with the natural world. How do we navigate obtaining food and the other things we need while still being good stewards of the land? I’d seen work by photographers demonstrating how Big Agriculture was destroying the environment. I wanted to find people who took a respectful approach, tried to work in tandem with it, but who might be in a fearful or dangerous situation.
I approached Les, the man in this picture, after speaking to the director of an exhibition space in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who had hired him to remove a feral beehive from his tree. I’d already tried to photograph another beekeeper who wore a full protective suit, but he might as well have been an astronaut. With Les, I was able to stay nearby and work with him over three days. The first couple involved straightforward documentary pictures of him tending his hives. Then, on the third day, his apprentice Amber showed up to help.
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© Photograph: Holly Lynton
© Photograph: Holly Lynton
© Photograph: Holly Lynton
A new exhibition has trawled the Martin Parr Foundation’s archive to find these haunted images – revealing the UK as a place of fear and fascination
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© Photograph: Colin Jones/TopFoto
© Photograph: Colin Jones/TopFoto
© Photograph: Colin Jones/TopFoto
Many Muslims saw their places of worship destroyed or abandoned during the sectarian violence of India’s partition in 1947. Now villagers of many faiths are coming together to revive them
Gajju Khan is smiling as he sits in an unfinished building in the northern Indian state of Punjab in the late afternoon. The 87-year-old is hopeful that before he dies he will hear the azaan, the Muslim call to prayer, echo across his village once again when the mosque is completed.
The last time he heard it here was when he was eight years old, living with his parents in Tira Maloya, a village in Chandigarh, not far from where he lives now.
Bibi Rajinder Kaur, a Sikh, donated family land to build a mosque in her village. ‘There is no deed better than giving someone a place to worship,’ she says
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© Photograph: Cheena Kapoor
© Photograph: Cheena Kapoor
© Photograph: Cheena Kapoor
A striking transformation takes place along the coast of Qinqdao in autumn, when a native seepweed turns a brilliant shade of red.
The ‘red beach’ phenemon can be seen in the salt marshes and wetlands on the coast of China’s Shandong province, where the Suaeda glauca plant matures and absorbs water, changing it from green to crimson between September and November
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© Photograph: Han Jiajun/VCG/Getty Images
© Photograph: Han Jiajun/VCG/Getty Images
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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