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Photos of the Week: Misty Morning, Haunted House, Light Festival

More than 100 go-kart racers in England, swimming pigs on a Greek island, military training in Syria, a scene from Beijing Fashion Week, and much more

By · September 18, 2026 · 4 min read
This article was originally published by The Atlantic and is republished here under license.
People stand on a track alongside a jet-powered dragster as it prepares for a race, blasting flames and smoke behind it.
Oli Scarff / AFP / Getty
Martin Hill prepares to compete in his jet dragster, named Fireforce 5, at the Euro Finals drag-racing event, at the Santa Pod Raceway near Wellingborough, England, on September 11, 2026.
A tennis player kisses a trophy, backdropped by out-of-focus sparks.
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Alexander Zverev, of Germany, kisses the trophy after winning the men’s singles final of the U.S. Open tennis championships against Ben Shelton on September 13, 2026, in New York.
Performers on a stage, standing in tiered rows, wearing black jumpsuits with long silver gloves, pointing their arms in varying directions, creating a geometric design
Bruna Prado / AP
The Brazilian DJ Alok presents his “Keep Art Human” performance on September 11, 2026, during the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro.
A model walks a runway, wearing a spiky metal headdress that circles their face.
Lintao Zhang / Getty
A model walks the runway at the C.Protocol collection show on September 14, 2026, during Beijing Fashion Week.
A fan reacts before a football game, their face painted black with white stripes.
David Becker / AP
A fan reacts before a football game between the Las Vegas Raiders and the Miami Dolphins, in Las Vegas, on September 13, 2026.
A scene from the movie “Jurassic Park” made of pumpkins and wood, depicting a T-Rex emerging from dense undergrowth and attacking a car
Markus Schreiber / AP
A scene from the movie Jurassic Park illustrated with pumpkins and wood, seen in the “Pumpkin Goes to Hollywood” display at the Asparagus and Adventure Farm in Klaistow, Germany, on September 17, 2026.
A person sets up a frightening werewolf figure for a haunted house experience.
Matthias Bein / DPA / Getty
Hermann Fellerhoff sets up a frightening figure in his haunted house, “Ride to Hell 2.0,” on the Eisleber Wiese in Eisleben, Germany, on September 16, 2026.
A robot sits, cross-legged, in a chair in a park among humans.
Vernon Yuen / Nexpher Images / Sipa USA / Reuters
A robot sits in a chair in Victoria Park in Hong Kong on September 17, 2026.
An aerial view of a brightly-lit fun fair, with a city skyline in the background, after dusk
Michael Probst / AP
A ferris wheel turns on the first day of the Dippemess autumn fair in Frankfurt, Germany, on September 11, 2026.
Two beams of light shine straight up from the top of a distant mountain, seen framed by trees that are lit by red light.
John Tully / Getty
Two “Honor Summit” beams of light shine from the top of Mount Washington, the Northeast’s highest peak, marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, seen on September 12, 2026 in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire.
Many strings of light decorate a small tree and most of its branches, some attached to the trunk and roots, others dangling from the branches.
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An installation at the third annual Shanghai International Light Festival in the Huangpu District, photographed on September 17, 2026. The festival will run until October 16, at one main venue and 16 subvenues across Shanghai.
An artist with long and curling hair extensions poses at a fashion show.
Selcuk Acar / Anadolu / Getty
Kayra Theodore, a Haitian American hair artist, attends the Frederick Anderson fashion show at Nebula on September 15, 2026, during New York Fashion Week.
A model poses, wearing a dress and headgear adorned with autumnal foliage.
Ian Forsyth / Getty
Anna Cartmell Done poses, wearing a themed dress called “Grain and Grandeur—The Harvest Ball,” created by the floral designer Jonathan Moseley, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Harrogate Autumn flower show on September 17, 2026, in Ripon, England.
A soldier takes part in a field training session, wearing a helmet covered in greenery.
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A reservist takes part in an exercise on how to defend a position during a Bundeswehr training program in Baumholder, Germany, on September 15, 2026.
A half-dozen female soldiers rest in an open area during a training session.
Baderkhan Ahmad / AP
Fighters with the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units, or YPJ, rest during a break in military training in the countryside of Derik, also known as al-Malikiyah, in northeastern Syria, on September 12, 2026.
People seated in classroom seats hold up pistols during a weapons-training session.
Raul Arboleda / AFP / Getty
Private security guards participate in a weapons-training session at the Americana Security Academy in Bogota, Colombia, on September 11, 2026. Colombia’s right-wing President Abelardo de la Espriella relaxed gun-carry laws on September 8, saying he wanted to help ordinary citizens defend themselves from “bandits armed to the teeth.”
Riot police officers line up, backdropped by a tall statue of a giraffe.
Vadim Ghirda / AP
Riot police officers line up, backdropped by a statue of a giraffe outside the Grigore Antipa Natural History Museum, close to the government headquarters, during a farmer’s protest in Bucharest, Romania, on September 15, 2026.
A deer crosses a lake on a very misty morning.
Sergei Gapon / AFP / Getty
A red deer crosses a lake during a misty morning in the Barycz Valley near the village of Grabownica, Poland, on September 15, 2026.
A small pig swims in clear ocean water, close to a rocky beach.
Aris Messinis / AFP / Getty
A Mediterranean black pig swims at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the Ionian Sea, on September 10, 2026. The island, located off the coast of western Greece, has gained popularity on social media for its population of free-roaming Mediterranean black pigs.
A crowd watches as a competitor in a small cart shaped like a carrot steers through a sudsy stretch in a soapbox obstacle course.
Sergei Grits / AP
A competitor in a vehicle shaped like a carrot steers through an obstacle course during the Red Bull Soapbox Race Eesti 2026 in Tallinn, Estonia, on September 13, 2026.
Dozens of drivers sit in low-slung go-karts on a track, before a race.
Mark Thompson / Getty
Max Verstappen prepares before the start of the “Max vs 100” challenge on September 16, 2026, in Northampton, England. Verstappen, a four-time F1 champion driver, took on 100 challengers in an elimination go-kart race, starting at the back and overtaking the entire field within 35 minutes.
An aerial view of an ancient bridge over a drying reservoir.
Christopher Furlong / Getty
In this aerial view, an ancient packhorse bridge is revealed by low water levels along the bed of Baitings Reservoir on September 14, 2026, near Ripponden, England. Despite the recent rainfall in parts of England, reservoirs and groundwater levels remain low after several months of exceptionally dry conditions and record-high temperatures across the U.K.
An aerial view shows homes and farmland surrounded by floodwater.
Bipul Ahmed / NurPhoto / Getty
An aerial view shows homes and farmland surrounded by floodwater in the Middle Char area of Char Khidirpur in Paba Upazila, Bangladesh, on September 13, 2026. Rising water levels in the Padma River have inundated several low-lying communities, leaving more than 200 families in Middle Char marooned, according to local officials and residents.
A person stands beneath a dome of hexagonal surfaces, each with a slightly-different view of the sky above projected on them, inside an inflatable art installation.
Joseph Okpako / Getty
Luke Jerram showcases his new project, the “Pollenarium,” at Barking Riverside on September 11, 2026, in London. The Pollenarium is an inflatable room shaped like a spiky grain of pollen on the outside, with lenses that project images of the outside world onto surfaces inside the structure.
Two workers stand atop a large inflated balloon.
Christophe Delattre / AFP / Getty
Workers stand atop the 2024 Olympic cauldron designed by the French designer Mathieu Lehanneur, over the Tuileries Garden on September 16, 2026. The cauldron, brought back to Paris on June 21, 2026, made its last flight of the season on September 14, 2026.
A person answers questions during a press event, standing in front of a microphone stand in a parking lot, seen from a low angle.
Ethan Swope / AP
The NTSB investigator in charge, Fabian Salazar, answers questions during a news conference at the scene where a news helicopter crashed in the Chatsworth area of Los Angeles, on September 16, 2026.
Five dancers pose together during a performance on a stage.
Joe Maher / Getty
Jacquelin Harris, Jesse Obremski, Isaiah Day, Ashley Kaylynn Green, and Yannick Lebrun perform during a photo call for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Legacy/New Works at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London on September 15, 2026.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stands, arms crossed, eyes open very wide.
Markus Schreiber / AP
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz waits for Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, before a meeting in Berlin on September 15, 2026.
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