The Week in Photos: From Digging in Jerusalem to Building a Bridge in India

Pacific Standard Staff
May 27, 2017
A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard’s daily photo feature.
Indian television repairman Balwinder Pal works at his shop in Amritsar on May 26th, 2017.
Israel Antiquities Authority and Nature and Parks Authority workers dig in an underground tunnel on May 25th, 2017, unveiling evidence from 2,000 years ago of the battle of Jerusalem following the destruction of the Second Temple.
Israel Antiquities Authority and Nature and Parks Authority workers dig in an underground tunnel on May 25th, 2017, unveiling evidence from 2,000 years ago of the battle of Jerusalem following the destruction of the Second Temple.

(Photo: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)

Performers carry a giant graffiti ball during the opening Mass of the Kirchentag (Church Day) festival in Berlin, Germany, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, on May 24th, 2017.
Performers carry a giant graffiti ball during the opening Mass of the Kirchentag (Church Day) festival in Berlin, Germany, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, on May 24th, 2017.

(Photo: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)

A fruit vendor reads a newspaper as he waits for customers on a street in Islamabad, Pakistan, on May 23rd, 2017.
A fruit vendor reads a newspaper as he waits for customers on a street in Islamabad, Pakistan, on May 23rd, 2017.

(Photo: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images)

A welder constructs a temporary pontoon bridge over the Ganges River in Allahabad, India, on May 22nd, 2017.
A welder constructs a temporary pontoon bridge over the Ganges River in Allahabad, India, on May 22nd, 2017.

(Photo: Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)

Syrian opposition fighters are stopped at a checkpoint manned by regime forces ahead of their evacuation from the al-Waer neighborhood, the last opposition-held district in the city of Homs, on May 21st, 2017.
Syrian opposition fighters are stopped at a checkpoint manned by regime forces ahead of their evacuation from the al-Waer neighborhood, the last opposition-held district in the city of Homs, on May 21st, 2017.

(Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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