Photograph by Matt Cardy—Getty Images

June 11, 2013. Cosmo Sarson’s mural of Jesus break-dancing, painted on the wall beside The Canteen in Stokes Croft, is reflected in a window in Bristol, England.

From ceremonies marking the six-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre and continued unrest in Turkey to the recovery of a rare World War II German bomber from the sea and the newly renovated Nelson Mandela Center in South Africa, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

Photograph by Kerim Okten—EPA

June 11, 2013. A protestor hit by pressurized water sprayed from a riot police water cannon during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul.

From ceremonies marking the six-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre and continued unrest in Turkey to the recovery of a rare World War II German bomber from the sea and the newly renovated Nelson Mandela Center in South Africa, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

Photograph by Pete Pin for TIME

Yolanda Cuomo is the curatorial voice behind some of the 20th century’s greatest photographic books. This year, alongside Melissa Harris, Cuomo is co-curating this year’s LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Va. Read about her life and career here on LightBox.

“Many art directors have big egos and really want to impose their hand, their vision of a thing. But some art directors, like Yo, want to look at the world and are really not trying to interject themselves too much. Very often, a book is like a baby, you just have to try not to choke it. So Yolanda is wonderful to work with because she goes with you. She went with me and just let the book, the baby, breathe. And this is really what I appreciate about Yolanda: her great kindness and this great gentleness in approaching the process. She is putting the work, which is the book, ahead of her own ego.” —Gilles Peress

Photograph by Ed Kashi—VII

Too Sweet
A fundraising event for La Isla Foundation, a public health and policy NGO addressing a fatal epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease among sugarcane workers in Nicaragua, featuring an exhibit of Ed Kashi’s photographs.

Friday, June 21, 2013
7 - 9 p.m.

Cafe Integral at American Two Shot
135 Grand St.
New York, NY 10013

More information on La Isla Foundation here.

Photograph by Malcolm Browne—AP

On the 50th anniversary of Quang Duc’s self-immolation in 1963, LightBox presents an interview with Malcolm Browne, the Associated Press photographer who captured the now-iconic image

Photograph by Wolfgang Kumm—AFP/Getty Images

May 31, 2013. A cat sits behind a window covered in raindrops in Berlin. Meteorologists forecast further rainfalls for the following days in wide parts of the country.

From protests in Turkey and flooding in Europe to Angelina Jolie’s selfie and a donkey wedding, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

Photograph by Jose Coelho—EPA

June 6, 2013. Performers squeeze their bodies into selected spots of architectural structures as part of the ‘Bodies in Urban Spaces’ project in Porto, Portugal.

From protests in Turkey and flooding in Europe to Angelina Jolie’s selfie and a donkey wedding, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

Photograph by Daniel Etter—Redux

“I never expected this to happen,” photographer Daniel Etter tells TIME. “I chose to live in Istanbul because I wanted to have a city where I’m close to the big news stories, but still live in a stable and peaceful and quiet place.”

This week, protests in Taksim Square — around the corner from Etter’s apartment — turned violent when police unleashed water cannons and massive amounts of tear gas on environmentalists demonstrating against the government’s plan to demolish Gezi Park and turn it into a mall.

“It’s a tiny park in the middle of an ocean of concrete,” Etter explains. “It’s not very impressive and nobody really used it, but it’s one of the last remaining green spaces in the city and it became symbolic.”

The violent removal of the demonstrators ignited “nation-wide solidarity and protests against the government,” he says, which is led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“It’s a strange coalition of opposition groups,” Etter says. “Mostly the secular young, but there are all kinds of other people mixed in.”

For several days, Etter documented the events in his neighborhood, capturing the iconic frame above on June 1, 2013, featured in this week’s LightBox Pictures of the Week gallery.

“He was always on top of this barricade,” Etter says of the man pictured waving the Turkish flag, “and he didn’t have a mask. He was just totally exposed to the tear gas. He stood there and waved the flag for a few minutes until he couldn’t take it anymore and collapsed. He went back up again and did the same thing — wave the flag, collapse, go back.”

“He was determined,” he says. “I don’t know how people manage to throw stones and keep going. The amount of tear gas that is shot at the protestors — even with a mask, I was almost fainting in between shots.”

Etter’s image went viral on social media and drew comparisons to Eugène Delacroix’s dramatic 1830 painting commemorating the French Revolution, Liberty Leading The People.

“The body language and the waving flags and the smoke in the background and the fire are very similar,” Etter says, “but you can’t really compare these two events, they’re nowhere close to in relation.”

The one similarity, he concedes: “people here in Istanbul are so keen to get change.”

—Eugene Reznik

See more of this week’s best photos on LightBox.

Photograph by Danny Moloshok—Reuters

May 26, 2013. A Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur mascot runs on the field as young boys play an exhibition soccer match during halftime of the MLS soccer game between the Los Angeles Galaxy and Seattle Sounders FC in Carson, California. The dinosaur was on the field to promote the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

From the first same-sex marriage in France and memorials in Moore, Okla. to an epic Hobbit battle reenactment and a dinosaur taking the field during a soccer match, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

Photograph by Zhong Cheng Jh—Imaginechina

May 28, 2013. The sleeping infant, who had been rescued from the sewer pipe in a residential building, is seen at a hospital in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, east China.