For 7 days a week, every week, thousands of photographers compete with millions of amateurs for your photographic attention. Facebook, every day, see 250 million images uploaded. Your local publication publishes at most, a few hundred. Yet, week after week, it is always the professional images that grab our attention. A thousand times more than any of the images of last night's party or whatever your co-worker had for lunch. Even with odds catastrophically calling for the collapse of professional photojournalism, day after day, week after week, months after months, it is always those images that we seek, cherish and remember.
This weeks's selection is all about the subtleties of our lives, whereby littles details create the human element from which we can connect. It is all about the violence that surrounds us , close or far, and remind us that how pathetically human we are. It is all about moments of pure emotions that seek our compassion and sometimes, our understanding. Finally, this selection tells us more about who we are than any images of last night's party or baby's new teeth.