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Picture of the week: Cape Coral, Florida, 2012, by Edward Burtynsky
Water is the latest project in Edward Burtynsky’s portfolio, which, he tells Abigail Radnor, has been motivated by the same driving force since 1981
Picture of the week: Lord’s Queue, 2009, by David Levene
‘It’s a real snatched moment in time’: David Levene tells Abigail Radnor about the art of the photojournalist
Pictures of the week: EUSA, by Naomi Harris
Photographer Naomi Harris’s EUSA project records a transatlantic obsession with dressing-up: Americans embracing adopted European cultural histories, and wild west enthusiasts based in Europe
Pictures of the week: Around the floodlit grounds, by Ian Hughes
As he drove past the old Rotherham United stadium of Millmoor in 2004, photographer Ian Hughes was so captivated by the light pouring out of it that he jumped out of the car to take a picture
Picture of the week: the Woodland Hills High School Prom, by Mark Neville
The British photographer spent four months in Pittsburgh, commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum
Pictures of the week: first world war prison camps, by John Ritson
David Pallister inherited an extraordinary box of glass slides from his grandfather who worked for Colonel John Ridley Ritson. The pictures reveal a life of relative luxury for officers interned in first world war prison camps
Pictures of the week: Hungarian Sea, by Michal Solarski
Polish photographer Michal Solarski returns to Lake Balaton in Hungary, to recapture the summer holidays he enjoyed there as a child
Picture of the week: The Aral Sea I, Kazakhstan 2011, by Nadav Kander
When Nadav Kander heard about Russian science towns built specifically for developing atomic bombs and ballistic missile testing, his interest was immediately piqued
Picture of the week: The Sea Woman Of Jeju, by Jean Chung
When the men of Jeju went off to war or out to sea to fish, diving for conch, octopus and abalone became the women's domain. And it has remained that way, says Abigail Radnor
Pictures of the week: The Mutant Vehicles Of Burning Man, by Sidney Erthal and Scott London
Motorised vehicles aren't allowed at Nevada's annual Burning Man festival, and vehicles on site have been so radically altered that they are more art than car. Sidney Erthal and Scott London joined the 68,000-strong crowd to photograph the results
Pictures of the week: Control, by James Rawlings
Photographer James Rawlings tells Abigail Radnor about shooting inside the Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre in Gravesend
Pictures of the week: Drones photograph US public spaces
Pictures of the week: The Invisibles, by Sébastien Lifshitz
Pictures of the week: An Archeology of Fear And Desire, by Frédéric Brenner
Frédéric Brenner explores the fabric of Israeli society. By Abigail Radnor
Pictures of the week: The Oldest Living Things In The World, by Rachel Sussman
Each week, the Guardian Weekend magazine's editorial team choose a picture, or series of pictures, with a powerful or surprising story to tell. This week, their choice is Rachel Sussman's The Oldest Living Things in The World
Pictures of the week: Non-voters by Felicity McCabe
Each week, the Guardian Weekend magazine's editorial team choose a picture or set of pictures that particularly tickle their fancy. This week, their choice is Felicity McCabe's portraits of non-voters
Pictures of the week: the work of Spencer Tunick
Each week, the Guardian Weekend magazine's editorial team choose a picture, or set of pictures, that particularly tickle their fancy. This week, their choice is the work of Spencer Tunick
Pictures of the week: Amanda And Her Cousin Amy, by Mary Ellen Mark
Mary Ellen Mark is a worthy recipient of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards' Outstanding Contribution to Photography, says Abigail Radnor
Pictures of the week: 3.30 Project, by Maria Spann
Maria Spann's project reveals what children really get up to in their after-school clubs, discovers Leah Harper
Pictures of the week: Bouncers, by Barbara Anastacio – in pictures
Hannah Marriott Looks at Barbara Anastacio's images of bouncers at Fashion Week
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