Closeup

Friday, September 16, 2011 | By TIME Photo Department | 0

The Best Pictures of the Week, September 9 – September 16

Moises Saman—Redux/The New York Times
Moises Saman—Redux/The New York Times
September 9, 2011. Under an ominous sky, Eyadea Elspaie visits the gravesite of his son, Tareq Elspaie, who was killed by Gafhafi loyalists last month, at a cemetery in Tripoli. Libyan rebels launched attacks on the loyalist holdouts of Bani Walid and Surt, and Interpol issued an arrest warrant for Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
Tumblr

This week; A man visits the graveside of his son—killed by Gaddafi loyalists—in Tripoli, three thousand flags commemorate the 10 year anniversary of 9/11, a plane flies through the “Tribute in Lights” in lower Manhattan. gas pipeline explosion in Nairobi, gunmen open fire on a school bus in Pakistan, Israeli embassy attack in Cairo, Brazilian forest fires, Damien Hirst’s sculpture Legend, New York fashion week, Novak Djokovic wins the U.S. Open, and the painted “Tiger Men” of India’s “Pulikali” Tiger Dance festival.

See last week’s Best Pictures of the Week.

Related Topics: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Latest Posts

Steve Ruark—AP

Photo Essay

Honoring the Fallen: One Photographer’s Witness to 490 Dignified Transfers

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Since April 2009, the Associated Press has sent a still photographer to every dignified transfer of servicemen and women killed in Iraq or Afghanistan open to the media. Most often it is freelancer Steve Ruark. To mark Memorial Day, TIME presents a gallery of the almost 500 transfers he has attended since 2009.

Read More
US-WEATHER-TORNADO

Closeup

Pictures of the Week: May 17 – May 24

Saudi citizens rest after presenting Saudi Billionaire HRH Prince al Waleed bin Talal with petitions for his help at a desert camp outside of Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia, February 27, 2013. Like many families across Saudi Arabia who are barely scraping above the poverty line each month, many poor Saudis rely on the hope of the charity of others to survive. (Credit: Lynsey Addario/ VII)

Photo Essay

Rich Nation, Poor People: Saudi Arabia by Lynsey Addario