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US press review by Paul Melcher

LA Times : Guymon, Oklahoma . — "Road," 2009 Photograph by: Mitch Dobrowner

USA Today : The Space Shuttle Enterprise is carried by barge underneath the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on June 3, 2012 in New York City.Michael Nagle/Getty Images

Msnbc.com : A soldier from the U.S. Army's Alpha Company, 1-12 Infantry, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, runs across open ground to avoid sniper fire at Combat Outpost Pirtle-King in Afghanistan's Kunar Province June 7, 2012. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne

Wall Street Journal : Protesters demonstrate at Cairo's Tahrir Square after a court sentenced deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison, June 2. Mubarak was accused of ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising last year that swept him from power. He escaped the death penalty and senior officers tried with him were acquitted for lack of evidence. Mohammed Salem / Reuters

Newcastle Herald : Nasa image. Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit achieved these images with the use of long exposure. Photo: Don Pettit/NASA_JSC_Photo/Flickr

Vanity Fair : Photos by Platon . An Israeli Defense Forces (I.D.F.) soldier waits for the public bus next to a memorial along the main road from Hebron to Jerusalem near Efrata, in the West Bank.

The Guardian : Inmates mingle around their personalized bunks in a communal cell in San Pedro Sula Central Corrections Facility in Honduras. Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

PDN : A young man carries a shark to Mogadishu's fish market to be cleaned and sold after a morning fishing trip. With piracy a growing issue in the seas, no Western fisherman risk entering the surrounding Indian Ocean, leaving it abundant with sharks and other sea creatures.© Jan Grarup/Noor Images

Palm Beach Post : Celtics point guard Keyon Dooling celebrates Boston's 94-90 game 5 victory. (Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post)

National Geographic : Falling Petals, Japan Photograph by Hisao Mogi “I sat down on a stump for a rest after a stroll in Nara Park and watched the deer. They were eating fallen cherry blossom petals peacefully. Suddenly a strong wind blew and cherry blossom petals started to fall on the deer. It was like a shower of cherry blossom petals. In Japanese, it is called hana fubuki, which means flower snowstorm.”

Wired.com : Photographer Billy Hunt thought he had found a way to hack his portrait subjects’ awkwardness: a scream-activated photo booth.

Dazed and Confused magazine : Former Dragon Tattoo girl Noomi Rapace is blasting into space for Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic Prometheus. Photography SØlve SundsbØ
There are lot of opportunities to take photographs. Most deal with the benin, as a record of moments soon to be past. We collect the instant, we share them with those we think might care and we forget them. The cemetery of images past used to be a shoebox, it is now an old hard drive or dusty CD's. There are very few opportunities to photograph what goes beyond the meer exercise of recoding an event but rather permanently impact humanity's psyche. Yet, week after week, talented photographers worldwide seem to do it with ease and simplicity. They create, with their photographs, a collective memory. And although we weren't there, we all have the same feeling that it happened in front of our eyes. We integrate their images as if they were part of our lives and share the memory of them with others, as if we were all there, at the same time and at the same place. Some will make some of us act while others will make us smile, cry, cringe or sympathize. None will leave us indifferent. This week's selection confirms that from the heights of the International Space Station ( 2001: A space odyssey anyone ?) to the glossy pages of Dazed and Confused Magazine, from the flatland of Oklahoma to a sport stadium in Miami, there has been great opportunities taken to add content to our collective memories . And we feel so much richer for it.
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