Aerial view of oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico. This images is part of an exhibition at Somerset House in London, of 130 original photographic works taken around the world, from Mitch Epstein’s image of an American oil refinery to Nadav Kander’s smog-filled vision of the Yangtze river in China.

Photograph: Daniel Beltra

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Sid the Sexist’s favourite picnic spot? Maybe, but Northumberlandia is a joy

Charles Jencks’s playful sculpture celebrates the human habit of seeing figures in the landscape

Photograph: AP

Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP

From our gallery following Niger’s nomadi herdsmen:

A young herdsman walks through his cattle around 15km outside Bermo, in southern Niger, close to the border with Nigeria. In a region where men use livestock to settle disputes, pay the dowry for brides and pass on to sons as inheritance, severe drought is forcing many to sell their animals to survive

Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

From our ‘Week in wildlife’ gallery:

Wild ponies cross a creek in Virginia, after being rounded up for next week’s annual swim across the Assateague channel to Chincoteague Island

Photograph: Graeme Campbell/National Park Authorities

Glenridding by Graeme Campbell - one of the many great photos submitted to the national parks landscape photo competition

Photograph: Daniel Start/wildswimming.com

Pont du Diable, near Thuyets - just one of the places to go wild swimming in France

Photograph: ISS/NASA

One of the fascinating shots in our monthly gallery of images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites:

The city of Shanghai (right) sits along the delta banks of the Yangtze river along the eastern coast of China. It is the world’s most populous city (the 2010 census counted 23 million people, including “unregistered” residents). With so many humans, the city is a tremendous sight at night. The bright lights of the city centre and the distinctive new skyscrapers that form the skyline along the Pudong district (the eastern shore of the Huangpu river, a tributary of the Yangtze that cuts through the centre of Shanghai) make for spectacular night viewing both on the ground and from space. On the left is Suzhou located 120km from Shanghai

Photograph: Amos Chapple

A Kurdish girl on a rooftop in Palangan from a gallery of images by Amos Chapple, a New Zealand photographer with Lonely Planet. Over the winter he visited Iran’s Kurdish region to photograph the near-vertical Palangan village. He has given his pictures exclusively to the Guardian’s Iran blog

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Farshid Moussavi: opening our eyes to new ways of city living

Always inventive, never predictable, this architect’s fascination lies in making pieces of city in a globalised world

• Farshid Moussavi will be in conversation with Rowan Moore at the Guardian’s Open Weekend. Find out more and book tickets

A great opportunity to meet Moussavi from our culture team.