The tomb of Sultan Mohammed Telai, great-great grandfather of Nadir Shir, an Afghan king. Its arches are decorated in Italianate stucco, but the tomb itself is badly damaged and graffitied. The strategic location of the hill is readily apparent from here, and was much fought over in the 1990s.

Yuri Kozyrev visited Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, and saw a Kabul that has been shaped by war. See more here.

Hazardous Waste Containment Site, Dow Chemical Corporation, Mississippi River, Plaquemine, Louisiana 1998 — Richard Misrach’s Cancer Alley.

Nightview, New York City, 1932 — Berenice Abbott / Courtesy of Editions Hazan and Yale University Press.

See more of Abbott’s work here on LightBox.

Eve Arnold — Magnum

Happy birthday Marilyn Monroe — Marilyn Monroe in the Nevada desert going over her lines for a difficult scene she is about to play with Clarke Gable in the film “The Misfits” by John Huston. 1960.

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Ghostball

Maro Hagopian is a New York City nightlife photographer, but her latest project is portraits of “cat personalities.” An exhibit of the portraits, entitled Nine Lives, will be on view as part of the Bushwick Open Studios program in Brooklyn on June 2 and 3. More information is available here. For more information about Hagopian, visit her website.

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Alexandra (pageant founder), Alexis, LaShonda, and Molly, Miss Model contestants. Cleveland, Ohio.

Twenty-two-year-old Alexandra Russo is the founder and director of the Miss Model Pageant. Alexandra says she first had the idea for her pageant when she was 11 years old. “The show is centered around women, success, being comfortable with yourself, fulfilling your dreams, and using entertainment to communicate a positive message,” Alexandra says. Contestants compete in two divisions, 13-20 years old and 21-and-over, and seven titles are up for grabs: Miss Model, Miss Modelette, Miss Model Princess, Miss Modelette Princess, Miss Role Model, Miss White Knight, and Miss Purple Dragon.

The pageant is in its fifth year, and the pink banner that Alexandra has designed for the show features a unicorn and the words “Be The Girl” and “How Big Will Your Dreams Get?”

“The pageant mascot is Mist the Unicorn,” Alexandra says. “He represents unity and diversity. There are also four other mascots. Fitz the Fairy represents having fun and making friends; Splash the Swan is about finding inner beauty; Croak the Frog encourages the contestants to be independent and autonomous; and Gem the Genie symbolizes motivation, success, and ambition.”

This year’s pageant is scheduled for June 24th at the Earth Night Club in Cleveland. Alexandra is still trying to line up contestants, and has 11 confirmations so far. “I’m just hoping to get a little bit bigger each year,” she said. “Last year we had 10 contestants, but only nine actually showed up.”

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May 30, 2012. An Afghan boy pushes a wheel on the Naderkhan hill in Kabul.

From Memorial Day observances in the United States and an exchange of bodies in the West Bank to the massacre in Syria and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in England, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week. See more here.

Batture, North of Port Allen, Louisiana, 1998

Photographer Richard Misrach revisits one of the most industrial areas of the United States for a new exhibit at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. See more here.

Mushroom camp on the outskirts of Chemult, Oregon, 2011. Eirik Johnson.

Eirik Johnson in conversation with Gail Gibson on Flak Photo:

Gail Gibson: You have two bodies of work on exhibit right now Camps + Cabins, which is work from Oregon and Alaska. Can you tell us about these projects?

Eirik Johnson: The Mushroom Camps and Barrow Cabins are indeed separate bodies of work, however they’re linked by my ongoing interest in makeshift architecture and human adaptation within the natural world. With The Mushroom Camps, I’m looking at encampments built by commercial mushroom hunters among the high country pine forests of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. These seasonal mushroom hunts (morels and boletes in the spring, matsutake and chanterelles in the fall) draw together a uniquely American mix of Southeast Asian multi-generational families, rural counterculture folks, and Mexican migrant laborers. They build shacks from tree branches, twine, plastic tarps, and empty rice bags and for two to three months the mushroom hunters call these camps home. The forests are dotted with the skeletal outlines of abandoned shacks, weathered branches offering a faint reminder of a home from a previous hunt. Many of those hunting mushrooms have lost or can no longer depend on once stable employment and have in turn, sought out a living through the global demand for foraged mushrooms. Others temporarily leave their day jobs to spend a few months each year out on the hunt. A former military commander from Laos, a nail salon owner from Stockton, and a runaway from Portland are just a few of those who have made their way to the dusty camps to search for mushrooms amongst the pine needles.

Read the entire conversation here.