26 February - 03 March 2024
Photography
Sergei Novikov: Gentrifying London
The Guardian: A train through Ukraine: a journey into the stories of two years of war | by Shaun Walker, photographs by Kasia Stręk
The New Yorker: Juanita Escoba - A Girl’s Coming of Age in the Country of Her Childhood | by Ana Karina Zatarain
Aperture: Adam Rouhana Searching for Freedom in Palestine | by Will Matsuda
The Guardian: Mi Perro: Prisoners and their dogs in Latin America – a photo essay | by Ronald Pizzoferrato
The Guardian: ‘Russia’s Cartier-Bresson’: how Dmitry Markov captured beauty amidst the brutality of Putin’s regime | by Howard Amos
The Picture Show: Humanitarian crisis grows in Gaza as mediation attempts resume | by NPR staff
Float: Distant Dialogues
Lifeboat Station Project: Women of the RNLI at the National Maritime Museum
Roger Viollet: Fighting for free contraception | by Catherine Deudon and Janine Niepce
Lenscratch: Grace Weston: Reclaiming the Muse | by Aline Smithson
Aperture: What Does It Mean to Collaborate in Photography? | by Yxta Maya Murray
Efie Gallery: James Kobla (J.K.) Bruce-Vanderpuije
Huck: Photographer J.K. Bruce-Vanderpuije’s extensive body of work is the subject of a new exhibition charting the changing shape of Ghana. | by Miss Rosen
Howard Greenberg Gallery: William Gedney
Fraction: No Visitors No Candles | by Shreya Sahai
Magnum: Good Morning, America | by Mark Power
The New Yorker: Richard Billingham - A Landmark Look at Family Dysfunction | by Chris Wiley
Salih Basheer: Projects
Blind: The Introspection of Frank Ockenfels 3
Frank W. Ockenfels 3: website
BJP: ‘Painting with a mechanical eye’: The unsung mastery of Saul Leiter | by Ravi Ghosh
Washington Post: Resurrecting photos from decades of work in Appalachia | by Kenneth Kickerman
Christopher Payne: General Pencil
Culture, Art and Design
The Guardian: How we made: ‘I recently went back to the Texas border – and urinated on the wall’: how we made Lone Star | John Sayles interviewed by Phil Hood
London Review of Books: Give your mom a gun | by Geoff Mann
NY Times: ‘Snoop’ Pearson Wants to Tell Her Story, With Help From a ‘Wire’ Friend | by Jonathan Abrams
Artsy: Jennifer Tee Collages Tulips into Vivid, Cross-Cultural Tapestries | by Maxwell Rabb
Artsy: Why the Ceramics Market Is Having a Moment | by Lucy Howie
Creative Boom: Special report: how design agencies are actually using AI in 2024 | by Tom May
The Marshall Project: We call straight women who couple up with fellow prisoners “gay for the stay.” That slang masks the complexity — and often beauty — of these bonds. | by Samantha Vantassell
McSweeney’s: Life Begins At Conception, Unless It’s An Election Year | by Devorah Blachor
The Bitter Southerner: My Favorite Restaurant Served Gas | by Kiese Laymon, photos Kate Medley
Huck: The Elusive Street Artist Taking on the World | by Josh Jones, Illustrations Foka Wolf
AnOther: Who Is Dorothy Dean? A 1960s New York Star Steps Into the Light | by Zoe Whitfield
Print: Adraint Bereal’s Lens Captures the Essence of Black College Life | by Amelia Nash
Dirt: Billboards still matter - Advertise here. | by Michelle Santiago Cortés
The Guardian: Risotto crisis: the fight to save Italy’s beloved dish from extinction | by Ottavia Spaggiari
Books
MACK: Material Reform: Building for a Post-Carbon Future | by Material Cultures
PhMuseum: Photobook Review: Rambles, Dreams, and Shadows by Arthur Tress | by Colin Pantall
Photobook Journal: Nancy Richards Farese – Potential Space: A Serious Look at Child’s Play | review by Gerhard Clausing
Podcast
Appalshop (Youtube): Mountain Farmer | by Shelby Adams, Mimi Pickering
The Food Chain (BBC): Table Talk
Fixing the World (BBC): Bringing dead languages back to life
The Artificial Human: Could AI Swing an Election?
Headbanging Headlines:
Fox 4 Kanas City: 2024: Fox 4 Kanas City: Missouri law says pregnant women can't get divorced - Three other states have similar laws: Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas. While a couple can still file for divorce in Missouri, the court must wait until after a woman gives birth in order to finalize child custody and child support.
PetaPixel: Students Discover M&M’s Vending Machine is Spying on Them
Other Things
Washington Post: Alabama embryo ruling may have devastating effect on cancer patients | by Sabrina Malhi
Washington Post: With Alabama’s IVF court ruling, a scary future for women’s health care | by Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Tim Craig
Washington Post: How to use ethylene absorbers to keep fruits and vegetables fresh | by Allyson Chiu
The Guardian: Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says | by Nina Makhani
military.com: Veterans Care in the Community Is Pushing the VA to the Brink. | by Suzanne Gordon and Russell Lemle
CPR: (From 2016) Reporting massive human rights abuses behind a façade - Two reporters escaped with their lives, but left Cambodia with very different stories. History shows one was right. | by Elizabeth Becker
LA Times: They say San Francisco is coming back as a tech hub, but it never really left | by Michel Hiltzik
Labor
Washington Post: AI ‘dream girls’ are coming for porn stars’ jobs - AI will change adult entertainment forever. The risks — for sex workers and the rest of us — are profound | by Tatum Hunter
Miami Herald: 15-year-old falls to death on AL roofing job first day | by Olivia Lloyd
UAW: “We are the majority”: Workers at Mercedes-Benz’s largest US plant announce majority support for joining UAW
Washington Post: The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason. | by Rachel Siegel, Lauren Kaori Gurley and Meryl Kornfield
Social Issues (2024 election)
Mediaite: ‘We Didn’t Get All The Way There On Jan 6’: Trump Booster Pledges to End Democracy in CPAC Rant as Bannon Cheers On | by Jennifer Bowers Bahney
Washington Post: Opinion | Jim McDermott left Congress. Then he had to leave the country. | by Elizabeth Becker
Washington Post: Opinion | Would Trump be a dictator? And can he be stopped? | by Robert Kagan
Mother Jones: The Smirnov Affair: MAGA Republicans Are Useful Idiots for Russian Intelligence | by David Corn
Courthouse News Service: Challenging Cruz for Senate seat, two Texas Democrats emerge as frontrunners | by Cameron Thompson, Kirk McDaniel
LA Times: Latino political power emerges in South L.A. | by Gustavo Arellano
TNR: Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court Over Trump Delay—and Hands Dems a Weapon | by Greg Sargent
Social Issue
Garbage photo
The Guardian: What I learned about the US death penalty from the next man to be executed | by Alex Hannaford
ProPublica: This Mississippi Court Appoints Lawyers for Just 1 in 5 Defendants Before Indictment | Co-published with The Marshall Project and Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
The Daily Beast: Reddit Files to Go Public, Reveals That It Paid CEO $193 Million Last Year | by Noah Kirsch
TPM: Liberal Justices Cut Through Right-Wing Obfuscating: Bump Stocks And Machine Guns Do ‘Same Thing’ | by Kate Riga
moz://a: Did AI Generate This Photo? Here’s How To Tell | by Xavier Harding
Vox: Reddit, Tumblr, Wordpress: The deals that will sell your data to train AI models | by A.W. Ohlheiser
SF Chronicle: Without insurance, Habitat can’t sell our homes to those who need them | by Debbie Arakel
Division Street
Crossing the bridge photo
NY Times: A Life Without a Home - Voices from he tents, shelters, cars, motels and couches of America
KSBW: Major homeless encampment sweep of Salinas railroad tracks, 'no plan' for relocation | by Brisa Colón
LA Times: A tent encampment rises outside Ojai’s stately City Hall. Its residents might break your heart | by Hailey Branson-Potts, Photos Michael Owen Baker
Dazed: Q&A - How the housing crisis is impacting culture in Manchester | text by Hugh Morris
The Guardian: California wants to force people into mental health care. Advocates say it will backfire | by Maanvi Singh
See more of my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis
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