Press Review
US press review by Paul Melcher

NBCsports.com : Michi Mueller adjusts the sail on a PUMA Ocean Racing vessel during leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12, on Tuesday, May 8 from Itajai, Brazil, to Miami. Amory Ross / Volvo Ocean Race

WSJ.com ROBED IN BLACK: A protester prayed during weekly Friday prayers in San’a, Yemen. (Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters)

Time.com :Kirk Mastin A young woman stands in the surf during sunset at Marina Beach in Chennai, India. Marina beach is the second longest stretch of beach in the world, measuring 2.5 miles long

A girl squints through the targeting scope of a machine gun during an open day of the Dutch Armed Forces in Oirschot, The Netherlands, on May 12, 2012. — with Ilvy Njiokiktjien. Photograph by Ilvy Njiokiktjien / EPA

Jose Tabata #31 of the Pittsburgh Pirates is tagged out on the face at home plate by Jason Castro #15 of the Houston Astros during the game on May 11, 2012 at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. © Jared Wickerham

The Daily : Blow Job 2012 © 2012 Tadao Cern www.tadaocern.com — with Laura Daa.

Seattle Times : Former France's president Nicolas Sarkozy (L) and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leave the Elysee presidential Palace after the formal investiture ceremony between France's president Francois Hollande and his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy, on May 15, 2012 in Paris. PATRICK KOVARIK / AFP

National Geographic : Highlining in Koh Yao Noi, Phuket, Thailand Photograph by Scott Rogers

MSNBC.com. Wong Maye-E / AP A model walks the runway at the Audi Fashion Festival Show of American fashion designer Zac Posen's Pre-Fall & F/W 2012 collection on May 19, in Singapore. The annual fashion festival showcases works of top and emerging designers as part of efforts to promote the city-state as a fashion hub

Time.com : May 12, 2012. The family and loved ones of Ahmad Mussa Shamseddin gather in the family home to mourn over his body. He was killed by a sniper while walking in the streets of al-Qsair, Syria. Robert King—Polaris

Los Angeles Times : Phoenix — Hikers watch the solar eclipse from Papago Park. PHOTOGRAPH BY: MICHAEL CHOW / THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC

black & white : Noomi Rapace: Supernova - Dazed & Confused by Sølve Sundsbø, June 2012
NBCsports.com : Michi Mueller adjusts the sail on a PUMA Ocean Racing vessel during leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12, on Tuesday, May 8 from Itajai, Brazil, to Miami. Amory Ross / Volvo Ocean Race
In the end, it's all in how we depart. Whether it's facing the raging seas, or inside a limousine, surrounded or not by friends and family grieving, we are only truly alive when we engage ourselves in something new. It's all about what we have just finished and what we are about to embark on, lingering ever so slightly on the edges of our past, victorious or not. It's all about what we leave behind. And photography is the best tool to document this, from the moment we exit the limelight to the instant we enter it. How we proceed with time, foe or friend and we sometimes wish it would finally stop. This week's press review is all about those transitions, the moment before the next step and seconds away from the last one. That moment in suspension between what we are and who we become.
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