David Schonauer –The Weekly World Tour

David Schonauer’s press review evidently begins with Japan. How can the shock of an earthquake, followed by a tsunami, and then a nuclear threat be shown in images? Itsuo Inouye photographed two journalists taking refuge under a table during the earthquake. After the tsunami, his photographs of cargo containers published in the Boston Globe resemble a contemporary sculpture. But it’s the result of the tsunami. The New York Times chose a photograph from Xinhua/Gamma/Rapho/Getty Images. The Atlantic publishes one of the rare images that shows us the incredible devastating force of the tsunami wave in the estuary of Heigawa. The last horror that the people of Japan are living through is the threat of a nucleur meltdown. Kim Kyung-Hoon for the Washington Post followed workers at the Fukushima plant and the teams responsible for measuring the levels of radiation.

The second part of David Schonauer’s press review is at the complete opposite spectrum as it involves romance. National Geographic shows us everything from the mating rituals of frogs in the French Alps (Cyril Ruoso), to the summer romances of young New York couples (Diane Cook and Len Jenshel). Could this be a way of annoucing the arrival of spring?

The press review concludes with the voluptuous Rihanna, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, for Vogue and another image just as stunning of the human brain by Thomas Deerinck and Mark Ellisman (Scientific American).