7 days. That is exactly the amount of time that separates the events you see today from those you saw last weeks. Not enough to have remorse and too young to be real memories. Events follow and push each other even faster now that everyone has a camera. Or, more to the point, now that everyone is a publisher. It is not so much that everyone can take pictures that is really a new aspect of our civilization, but rather that everyone can publish images anywhere, anytime. There is no longer the supremacy of the editorial gatekeepers, those that decided what images could, or could not, be seen. Today, regardless of wether we like it or not, all images taken can be seen. Thankfully, most remain within the gated circle of social media groups, inaccessible for those who are not friends, or acquaintances. Some escape and like a disease, grab you wether you like it or not. But for better or for good, unless if we are Flickr, Instagram, or Facebook fanatics, we still can enjoy the delicious taste of great photography at the same places there have historically been. In this column, as well as others, you will notice that it is always the same publications that offer us some of the best images of the week. We live in a 300 million new images a day uploaded a day society but somehow we manage to escape the huge majority and get to honor, with our time, those that will probably remain iconic. 
It is not an easy task to document our world and it takes much more than just holding a camera in ones hand. This week, like any other week, we experience it and can thankfully say that even in a world were everyone is a photographer, not everyone can be photographer. There is an elite out there of talented photographers that can bring us far away emotions like no one else can. They are the photographers.

Paul Melcher