It’s the 21st of April and 7 Days is taking some time on the road
Vent Convention at the Imperial Palace Hotel. Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo Robert Gumpert April 2004
Hotel room, someplace. Photo Robert Gumpert 28 January 2013
Omaha, Nebraska. Photo Robert Gumpert 27 October 2012
Hotel room, someplace. Photo Robert Gumpert 29 January 2013
Hotel bathroom Petaluma, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 16 March 2018
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08 April - 14 April 2024
Portraits from Compass Family Services open house to “showcase showcase our family services for the Week of the Young Child”. San Francisco, California. Photos Robert Gumpert 09 April 2024
Photography
Blind: Mikko Takkunen - The Brilliant Colors of Hong Kong’s Darkest Days | by Robert E. Gerhardt
Lenscratch: Karla Guerrero: Diario de Ausencias | by Daniel George
Lens Culture: Preview: The Photography Show by AIPAD 2024
BJP: For Akin James, global Britain is a community affair | by Diane Smyth
Aperture: The World Is Martin Parr’s Runway | by Alistair O’Neill
The Guardian: A WHO photographer in Gaza: ‘There’s just an overwhelming need for peace’ | by Peter Beaumont, photographs by Chris Black
The Rolling Stone: Palestian Photojournalists Document Gaza’s Carnage
Ciro Battiloro: Ciro Battiloro website
Monroe Gallery: 1964
The Guardian: Simon Phipps - Nuclear reactor or medieval castle? Brutal Welsh architecture
1000 Words: Craig Atkinson - Café Royal Books Exhibition | reviewed by David Moore
Lens Culture: Portrait Awards 2024
Aperture: Prasiit Sthapit’s photographs show how musicians—as both instigators and healers—influenced an insurrection that shook the country. | by Muna Gurung
Blind: Maria Sturm - You Don’t Look Native
BJP: Jung, Rothko, Tanning, Duchamp: Inside the mind of Nadav Kander | by Alice Zoo
One One Thousand: Rotan Switch | by Lisa McCord
NY Times: How a Vacant Lot Became Our Own Dirtbag Narnia | photographs and text by Jordan Baumgarten
The Guardian: ‘The surreal dislocation of the everyday’: how Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura captured the Troubles as never before | by Sean O’Hagan
Culture, Art and Design
Corner of 3rd Avenue and Irving Street. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 07 April 2024
PetaPixel: NYC Pays $17.5 Million For Forcing Women to Remove Hijabs for Mugshots | by Pesala Bandar
Aperture: Mariko Mori’s Anime-Inspired Critique of Gender in Japan | by Marigold Warner
The Guardian: Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath obituary | by Richard Williams
Wallpaper*: A new exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explores the role of product photography and advertising in shaping the visual language of modernism | by Zoe Whitfield
Wallpaper*: Morgan Plus Four remains a timeless and invigorating mode of transport | by Jonathan Bell
BBC: Percival Everett: Why I rewrote Huckleberry Finn to give slave Jim a voice | by Katie Razzall
McSweeney’s: Selected Negative Teaching Evaluations of Jesus Christ | by Amanda Lehr
The Guardian: Interest in working-class photography booms but barriers to industry remain | by Lanre Bakare
The Mail & Guardian: Africarise: SA jazz to the globe | by Gwen Ansell
The Guardian: Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry obituary | by Richard Williams
Hyperallegic: Incredibly Preserved Frescoes of Trojan War Figures Unearthed in Pompeii | by Rhea Nayyar
Aeon: Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy on how technology shapes our world | by Bryan Norton, edited by Cameron Allan McKean
Aeon: America fell for guns recently, and for reasons you will not guess | by | by Megan King, edited by Sam Haley
The Guardian: ‘Another layer of pigment needed adding to the canvas’: artist John Akomfrah on changing the narrative, from Windrush to colonialism | Time Adams interview by John Akomfrah
The New Yorker: The Hottest Restaurant in France Is An All-You-East Buffet | by Lauren Collins
Books
Dewi Lewis: Fragile by Paul Hart
Creative Boom: Photographer Janine Wiedel - Vulcan’s Forge photobook casts a new light on 1970s West Midlands industry | by Tom May
Podcast
The Food Chain: How to run a restaurant
Headbanging Headlines:
The Independent: Trump posts bizarre solar eclipse ad – with his head blocking out the sun, plunging US into darkness
NBC News: Texas attorney who poisoned pregnant wife with abortion medication sentenced to 180 days in jail
Other Stuff
NY Times: How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. | by Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson and Nico Grant
NY Times: Axios Sees A.I. Coming, and Shifts Its Strategy | by Katie Robertson
Labor
AL.com: Union president blasts Gov. Kay Ivey: Alabama auto ‘workers are fed up with getting screwed’ | by William Thornton
The Guardian: Shawn Fain, president of the UAW: ‘Workers realized they’ve been getting screwed for decades’ | interviewed by Jamie Kitman
Social Issues - 2024 Elections
Washington Post: Arizona’s abortion ruling threatens to upend 2024 races | by Maegan Vazquez and Mariana Alfaro
Fortune: The Trump donor whom Biden can’t fire is running the U.S. Postal Service directly into the ground—just what everyone warned about when he was confirmed during the pandemic | by Sydney Lake
The New Republic: Trump Finally Reveals It: Billionaires Get Tax Cuts, We Get Autocracy | by Greg Sargent
Social Issues
Sleeping rough on Mission and 3rd streets. Downtown San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 12 April 2024
NPR: Indigenous leaders want to protect whales from climate change | by Julie Depenbrock
SF Public Press: Overdose Deaths Swell Among SF’s Mayan Residents, Highlighting Urgent Need for Culturally Competent Drug Health Services | by Sylvie Sturm
Mother Jones: America’s 806 Billionaires Are Now Richer Than Half the Population Combined—a Lot Richer - They have 57 percent more wealth, all told, than 65 million US households | by Michael Mechanic
Texas Observer: Community members say the state transportation agency is violating its agreement with the feds to reduce the discriminatory impact of its plans to expand I-45. | by Josephine Lee
The Guardian: ‘A family used to live here’: The Spanish sticker rebellion battling tourist lets | by Ashifa Kassam
Division Street
Portraits from Compass Family Services open house to “showcase showcase our family services for the Week of the Young Child”. San Francisco, California. Photos Robert Gumpert 09 April 2024
Huck: In this excerpt from his new book ‘Against Landlords’, lawyer and campaigner Nick Bano sets out a road map to ending private landlordism
Cal Matters: California homelessness: Does private security pose danger? | by Lynn La
Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative: California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness
The Hill: Affordable housing is the solution to homelessness, not criminalization | by Margot Kushel and Gregg Colburn
LA Times: What I learned from covering California's homeless since 1980 | by Dale Maharidge
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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01 April - 07 April 2024
Taco truck in the parking lot of a convenience store on the corner of Monterey Blvd and Forester. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 31 March 2024
Photography
NY Times: An Idyll on the Shores of a Toxic Lake | text by Jaime Lowe, photographs by Nicholas Albrecht
NY Times Magazine: What to Know About Life-Saving ECPR | by Helen Ouyang - Photos Mark Peterson
Mikko Takkunen: Hong Kong (selected works)
Vann Thomas Powell: On Contentious Ground
Franck Doussot: El Dorado, 2010-Present. And more
Reading The Pictures: Israeli Military in Gaza: Are You Going to Believe Us, Or Your Own Eyes? | by Michael Shaw
Lenscratch: Shinichiro Nagasawa: The Bonin Islanders | by Aline Smithson
Shinichiro Nagasawa: The Bonin Islanders
Lens Culture: Alastair Philip Wiper -Unintended Beauty | by Marigold Warner
The Guardian: Chris Killip and Graham Smith - Boom and bust in the industrial north-east
Melissa Grace Kreider: “I will bite the hand that feeds” and “Remnants”
Fraction: Future Cities by Noah Addis
Huck: Inside a Texan neighbourhood Mexican wrestling club | text by Isaac Muk, photography by Tom “TBow” Bowden
NY Times: Welcoming Underexposed Black Photographers Into the Canon | by Arthur Lubow
CNN: Anja Niedringhaus: Her photos captured the humanity of the Afghan people amid war | Photographs by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Story by Kyle Almond, CNN
Charles-Frédérick Ouellet: Le Naufrage
Ebrahim Noroozi: Mourners
Ninu Nina: No More Gentlemen’s Agreements - interview with Osheen Harruthoonyan
Then There Was Us: "White Fence Box", Graciela Iturbide's powerful photographs of a Los Angeles street gang
The New Yorker: Josef Koudelka Could Locate Beauty Anywhere | by Nicholas Dawidoff
Culture, Art and Design
Building started in 1939 by Metlife with the first tenants moving in 1944. Metlife owned and carefully maintained the property until early 1970s, when it sold it to Leona Helmsley and deteriorate. There were a succession of owners and management companies beginning in the late 1990s. The commercial areas of the development were sold off to investors, and other parts sold to the California State University system for San Francisco State University. As of 2008, 116 of the original 150 acres (0.61 km2) are owned and maintained by a single investor, who purchased the property for $687 million and has committed $110 million in upgrades. During the early 2000s (decade) the property was marketed as The Villas Parkmerced, however, as of 2009, signage and advertisements have returned to the original Parkmerced name. (From Wikipedia) Photo Robert Gumpert 03 April 2024
Washington Post: The common lesson from the MSNBC uproar and Trump’s Bible business | by E.J. Dionne Jr.
LA Times: The Hawaiian steel guitar changed American music. Can one man keep that tradition alive? | by Stephanie Yang
Creative Boom: F37 designs a typeface that embodies the 'charm and idiosyncrasy' of industrial Manchester | by Abbey Bamford
McSweeney’s: What to Say When Your Family Opens Your Uncle’s Casket During His Wake and Finds It Empty | by Tyler Gooch
The Guardian: The Republican party has become a full-fledged anti-sex movement | by Rebecca Solnit
Huck: We Must Shut Off the war Machine’s Influence From Out Arts and Culture | by Samuel Sweek
Hyperallergic: As Space Becomes Scarce, Artists Take Over an Abandoned LA Structure | by Angella d'Avignon
It’s Nice That: Matty Matheson’s new packaging is not retro, it’s 1930s can core | by Liz Gorny
Five Things I Saw & Heard This Week: At the Edge of Town / A Song for Richard Manuel | by Martin Colyer
Creative Boom: Sam Rodriguez's graffiti-inspired portraits depict people in their unseen entirety | by Dom Carter
Design Boom: Madeiguincho repurposes cargo container as tiny house with sunken roof terrace | by Lea Zeitoun
Do The M@th: Interview with Albert “Tootie” Heath | by Ethan Iverson
thebluemoment.com: The Necks at Cafe Too | by Richard Williams
NY Times: Women Who Made Art in Japanese Internment Camps Are Getting Their Due | by Rebecca Carballo
Books
AnOther: Rahim Fortune’s New Book Is a Poetic Portrait of Black Southern Identity | by Elodie Saint-Louis
Stanley/Baker: Karen Knorr - Country Life
Podcast
The Moth: Take Me Out To The Ballgame
Letter from an American: Heather Cox Richardson March 30, 2024
10fps: Episode 100: Eugene Richards (Documentary Photography)
Headbanging Headlines:
Yahoo Finance: Jeff Bezos Buys $90 Million Florida Mansion To Live In While His Other Newly Purchased $147 Million Homes Are 'Demolished' For A Mega Mansion
Washington Post: “God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens.” — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on X.
Other Stuff
Stairs Photo Robert Gumpert 01 April 2024
NY Times: A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong | by Dennis Overbye
Nautilus: The End of the Dark Universe? | by Sabine Hossenfelder
Washington Post: Google’s AI-‘supercharged’ Search Generative Experience, or SGE, sometimes makes up facts, misinterprets questions and picks low-quality sources — even after nearly 11 months of public testing. | by Geoffrey A. Fowler
Convergence: Conflict Could Upend DSA’s Big Tent—or Steady It | by William Lawrence
Aeon: Capitalism and (under)development in the American South | by Keri Leigh Merritt - edited by Sam Haselby
El País: Gisela Gaytán, candidate for mayor of violence-plagued town in Mexico, is shot dead | by Beatriz Guillén
World Central Kitchen: 7 WCK team members killed in Gaza
Rolling Stone: José Andrés Mourns World Central Kitchen's Israeli Airstrike Victims | by Larisha Paul, Ryan Bort
The Guardian: The Guardian view on the IDF’s killing of aid workers: a grim milestone in Gaza
Quartz: Google might charge for AI-powered search | by Britney Nguyen
+972 Magazine: ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza | by Yuval Abraham
Nautilus: Maritime Archaeologist David Gibbins on 12 Shipwrecks that Made History | by David Gibbons
Labor
Washington Post: Ready or not, self-driving semi-trucks are coming to America’s highways | by Trisha Thadani
The Nation: LA’s Forgotten Strike - Hotel workers have been demanding fair wages and benefits for months—and owners are starting to cave. | by Sasha Abramsky
Labor Notes: Our Class Has No Borders: Why the UAW Is Standing Up with Mexican Auto Workers | by Brandon Mancilla
Nautilus: The Plight of Japan’s Ama Divers | by Sofia Quaglia
Social Issues - elections 2024
Empty storefront laundromat on 18th Street between Missouri and Texas. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 02 April 2024
Washington Post: America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws | by Lauren Kaori Gurley
LA Times: Trump could gut abortion access in California if elected. Here's how | by Anita Chabria
Letter from an American: Heather Cox Richardson April 3, 2024
MSNBC: Michigan police officers' union should be ashamed of endorsing Trump | by Frank Figliuzzi
Social Issues
21st Avenue near Taraval Street in the Sunset District, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 30 April 2024
NY Times: Woman Who Was Charged With Murder After Abortion Sues Texas Prosecutor | by Anna Betts
NY Times Magazine: Javier Milei Is a New Prophet of Apocalyptic Capitalism | by David Wallace-Wells
Washington Post: The underwater hunt for the lost ship of an American slave trafficker | by Terrence McCoy and Photos by Rafael Vilela
LA Times: Newsom has approved three California prison closures but resists pressure to shutter more | by Anabel Sosa
The Guardian: Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 | by Jonathan Watts
Dezeen: Mark Foster Gage designs 450-metre-long bridge hotel at Neom | by Tom Ravenscroft
Print: News from a Changing Planet: The Great Lakes Great Thaw } by Tatiana Schlossberg
Division Street
Vacant lot at 601 5th Street. Once the site of an indoor racket and tennis courts, the structures were demolished and planning permits issues. And then they were canceled because the application had exceeded the stated and extended time period. And equally sized lot sits vacant across the street. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 16 February 2024
NY Times: Behind 94 Acts of Shocking Violence, Years of Glaring Mistakes | by Amy Julia Harris and Jan RansomPhotographs by José A. Alvarado Jr.
Dezeen: Montgomery County has found a way to reinvigorate public housing in America | by Ben Dreith
Mission Local: On Potrero Hill, squatters get scammed. So do landlords - months of complaints against the private management firm | Eleni Balakrishnan
SF Chronicle: Why one of S.F.’s biggest housing projects could shrink by hundreds of affordable apartments | by Roland Li
SF Chronicle: S.F. homeless housing nonprofit blasted for misusing taxpayer funds | by Maggie Angst, St. John Barned-Smith
See more of my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis
“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
25 March to 31 March 2024
Traffic heading south in the San Francisco Bay. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 2004
Photography
Lecia Camera Blog: Werner Bischof: Photographer, Artist, Witness
Lenscratch: Artists of Türkiye: Erdem Varol | by Mehves Lelic
Aperture: Gerald Annan-Forson portrayed Ghana in the 1970s from an intimate perspective, telling a spectacular story of political and social change. | by Jesse Weaver Shipley
Rob Hornstra: Stories
Museo Palacio de Bellas Artes: Flor Garduño. Senderos de vida
Reading the Pictures: Late-Stage Abortion and the Changing Face of the Movement: Tracing our Post-Roe Coverage in 7 Photographs | by Michael Shaw
World Press Photo: Special exhibition: Ties That Bind
Photograph: The Photography Five - Joel Myerowitz
Washington Post: James Whitlow Delano - Hauntingly beautiful photos of Japan’s icy and fragile other worlds | by Kenneth Dickerman
Royal Museums Greenwich: Capturing history: Jack Lowe and the RNL
Les Douches la Galerie: Art and Engineering
Polka: Haïti, Terre de Chaos, Dans L’Oeil de Corentin Fohlen | by Léonor Matet
Minimalism: B&W Minimalist Photography Prize’ 2024 Winners
Marion Goodman Gallery: Robby Müller: Polaroïds
My Modern Met: Photographer Docuements Turkey’s Decadent Abandoned Mosques | by Jessica Stewart
Peter Fetterman Gallery: Charles Harbutt
Flashbak: The Leopard And The Baboon: The Staging of a 1966 Classic Image
Aperture: What Christopher Gregory-Rivera Discovered in Puerto Rico’s State Secrets | Yxta Maya Murray
Pace Gallery: Josef Koudelka: Industry
Magnum: Abbas: 1944 – 2018
Alison Jackson: Mental Images
Culture, Art and Design
Cleaning the penguin exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 25 March 2024
National Gallery of Art: Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
Wallpaper*: Tour the Morgan Motor Company’s Worcestershire factory | by Jonathan Bell
Print: National Geographic’s Redesign Bridges Print Heritage & Digital Experience | by Amelia Nash
JSTOR Daily: Isabella Rosner’s Stitching Freedom showcases embroidered works made by the incarcerated and examines this craft’s historical popularity behind bars. | by Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
Huck: In her ongoing project, Fandom Unbound, photographer Rhynna Santos is creating the community she lacked in her youth. | by Miss Rosen
El País: The monumental legacy of Richard Serra, sculptor of steel and time | by Iker Seisdedos
Colossal: In Sand and Stone, Jon Foreman Sculpts Hypnotic Gradients and Organic Motifs | by Grace Ebert
Searchlight New Mexico: A New Mexico childhood | by Deborah Jackson Taffa
Aperture: Ibrahim Ahmed’s compositions explore his upbringing across Kuwait, Egypt, and the United States—and the complex power of performance. | by Dalia Al-Dujaili
Paris Review: See Everything: On Joseph Mitchell’s Objects | by Scott Schomburg
Alison Jackson: Mental Images
Books
Conscientious: Rob Hornstra's Ordinary People
Photobook Journal: Morocco - Harry Gruyaert | by Melanie Chapman
The New Yorker: The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers | by Adam Gopnik
Huck: Four years since countries across the world locked down, photographer Valentin Goppel revisits the experience of a suspended youth in new photobook ‘Between the Years’. | text Isaac Muk
Loosejoints: Hardtack | photos Rahim Fortune
Photobook Journal: Arthur Tress: Rambles, Dreams, and Shadows | review by Gerhard Clausing
Podcast
Appalshop: Coalmining Women
The Food Chain: Fasting and feasting
UNP: A Photographic Life, Episode 307: Photographer Michael Robinson Chávez
Ear Hustle: What's Up, Michael Freeman?
Headbanging Headlines:
The Guardian: Online conspiracy circles galvanize to proclaim Baltimore bridge collapse a ‘black swan event’
CNBC: A solution to the retirement crisis? Americans should work for more years, BlackRock CEO says
Washington Post: GOP official who claimed 2020 election was stolen voted illegally 9 times, judge rules
Other Stuff
While in port a marine oiler maintaining equipment in the engine room of a cargo ship in the Port of Long Beach, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 19 November 2008
CNBC: ‘Too early to judge’: Global carmakers contend with closure at busiest U.S. auto port | by Jenni Reid
Washington Post: See how the Key Bridge collapse will disrupt the supply of cars, coal and tofu | by Rachel Lerman, Hannah Dormido, Jeanne Whalen, Luis Melgar and Laris Karklis
El País: The blocked shipping route adds a new obstacle to a supply chain already affected by the problems in the Red Sea and Panama Canal | by Miguel Jiménez
The Conversation: Baltimore bridge collapse: a bridge engineer explains what happened, and what needs to change | by Colin Caprani
The Guardian: US maritime union sounds alarm over global shipping standards | by Michael Sainato
Washington Post: The Dali ship crew remains on board after hitting the Baltimore bridge | by Emily Davies and Rachel Weiner
The Lever: Feds Recently Hit Cargo Giant In Baltimore Disaster For Silencing Whistleblowers | by David Sirota, Freddy Brewster, Lucy Dean Stockton and Katya Schwenk
Washington Post: Robert Moses and the saga of the racist parkway bridges | by Glenn Kessler
Penguin exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 25 March 2024
BBC: Jewish settlers set their sights on Gaza beachfront | by Orla Guerin
Tech Crunch: Apple sued, Microsoft’s AI ambitions and Nvidia’s surprises
Breaking the News: Election Countdown, 225 Days to Go: NBC News and the McDaniel Mistake. | by James Fallows
PetaPixel: Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way Has Beautiful Magnetic Spirals | by Jeremy Gray
Nautilus: Forensics has reached the final frontier, and could be used to solve future space accidents—or crimes. | by Katharine Gammon
Science: The fern mandolin | by Margaret A. Handley
Labor
Sugarcane cutter on his way to work on the island of Negros, in the Philippines. In 2012 the Philippine sugarcane industry employed perhaps 700,000 sugarcane workers. (Wikipedia). Photo Robert Gumpert 1987
NY Times: We Spent Months With India’s Sugar Cutters. Here’s What We Found | by Megha Rajagopalan
ProPublica: As Wildfires Increase, the U.S. Is Losing More Wildland Firefighters Than Ever | by Abe Streep for ProPublica, illustrations by Hokyoung Kim, special to ProPublica
Washington Post: Walgreens owes $200K settlement in pregnancy discrimination lawsuit | by Jonathan Edwards
The Guardian: Low-income California Latinos at higher risk from Parkinson’s-linked weedkiller | by Tom Perkins
Social Issues - Elections 2024
Monitor in a medical facility, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 5 March 2008
NY Times: The Trumpification of Kristi Noem | by Vanessa Friedman
LA Times: L.A.'s political left looks to expand its power at City Hall | by David Zahniser
The Guardian: Overworked, underpaid, under attack: on the frontlines in a US election office | by Sam Levine
The New Yorker: What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain? | by Sam Knight
Mother Jones: Will RFK Jr. and Other Third-Party Candidates Help Doom Democracy? | by David Corn
Washington Post: Democrat who ran heavily on abortion rights, IVF wins Alabama special election | by Colby Itkowitz
Barron’s: Trump’s DJT Stock Boosts His Net Worth—and Raises Election Questions | by Matt Peterson
Social Issues
ProPublica: Health Insurers Have Been Breaking State Laws for Years | by Maya Miller and Robin Fields
The Guardian: Councils now sell off more houses than they build. Thatcher’s legacy, right to buy, is a failure | by Phineas Harper
SF Chronicle: As San Quentin’s Death Row empties, condemned inmates get a glimpse of hope | by Kevin Fagan
Slate: The anti-abortion endgame Erin Hawley admitted to the Supreme Court. | by Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern
Politico: Why Portland failed where Portugal succeeded in decriminalizing drugs | by Carmen Paul and Actor Hernández-Morales
Texas Monthly: Many in Bastrop Moved on From the Rodney Reed Trial. One Juror Couldn’t. | by Aisling Ayers
The City: Mayor Retains Controversial Rikers Commissary Contractor, Defying Comptroller’s Objection | by Reuven Blau and Bianca Pallaro
In These Times: Wealthy Corporations Are Paying Their CEOs More Than They Pay in Taxes | by Sarah Anderson, William Rice, Zachary Tashman
POY: OY81 Winners Gallery
PetePixel: Pictures of the Year Sparks Controversy, Awards ‘Disgusting’ War Photo Top Prize | by Jeremy Gray
Division Street
End of year memorial for the unhoused who died on the strikes during the year. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 21 December 2018
NY Times: The Mayor of Los Angeles Wants to Prove Homelessness Can Be Solved | by Jill Cowan
Dezeen: In this Social Housing Revival interview Kate Macintosh argues that a better way to address the UK's housing-affordability crisis would be a tax on land values. | by Nat Barker
Dezeen: Demolition of council estates "has peaked” | by Cajsa Carlson
The Guardian: Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments | by Todd Feathers
The New Yorker: Why New York Restaurants Are Going Members-Only | by Hannah Goldfield
Mission Local: Bernal Heights RV residents, pressured by city, vacate the hill |
See more of my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis
“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
18 March - 24 March 2024
Richmond District colors - San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 18 March 2023
Photography
Marlborough: Nightlife - Photographs by Berenice Abbott, Brassaï, Bill Brandt, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, and Weegee
Magnum: The Coles of Tomorrow - An essay by Lindokuhle Sobekwa from “The House of Story,” a publication that brings together the work of four South African photographers, mentored by Sobekwa and Candice Jensen.
Magnum: The Making of Magnum Magnum
Huck: Photography Barry Lewis’ new book takes a look into a history that the Russian government would rather we all forgot. | by Miss Rosen
The Guardian: Houston’s Fotofest biennial 2024: Critical Geography | by Sarah Gilbert
National Gallery of Art: The Real Lives of People in Dorothea Lange's Portraits
NCPR: Journalists discuss haunting photos from Gaza and the choice to print them
Christine Spengler: Photomontages
BJP: “By showing the architecture, we’re able to understand the human condition” In Beirut, solar panels and water tanks tell a story of decline | by Ravi Ghosh, Photos Dia Mrad
Shinya Arimoto: Works
Lenscratch: From Here To The Horizon: Photographs In Honor Of Barry Lopez | by Linda Alterwitz
BJP: ‘Ray’s a Laugh’ continues to court controversy - A new version of Richard Billingham’s pioneering family project raises the same old questions around access, class and sensation | by Gordon MacDonald
Aperture: Naomieh Jovin’s Photo Collages of Haitian American Life - Merging family archives with her own photographs, the artist tells a story about immigration with the lives of women at the center. | by Edwidge Danticat
Culture, Art and Design
An RV at a trailer and RV trailer park near Crescent City, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 20 October 2012
El País: The melancholy of Route 66′s last witnesses: ‘There aren’t many of us left’ | by Ricardo de Querol
NY Times: Crafting a Universe in Clay | by Hilarie M. Sheets
SF Gate: The urban legend that won't die on this deadly Bay Area highway | by Susana Guerrero, Madilynne Medina
Zeteo: Trump, a ‘Bloodbath’, and the ‘Banality of Crazy’ | by Mehdi Hasan
Boston Magazine: Myles Connor, the World’s Greatest Art Thief, Is Alive and Well | by Carly Carioli
Creative Boom: Yuki Uebo's crowded illustrations are inspired by the hustle and bustle of Tokyo life | by Dom Carter
Print: The Daily Heller: India’s Crafts Transform Type
Meanwhile: #198 | by Daniel Benneworth-Gray
Bidoun: Laughter Was Our Inheritance - A Beirut Diary | by Edwin Nasr, photos Michele Aoun
Aeon: Societies of perpetual movement - Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest | by Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, edited by Cameron Allan McKean
NY Times: Tennessee Makes A.I. an Outlaw to Protect Its Country Music and More | by Emily Cochrane
NY Times: The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance | by Veronica Chambers and Michelle May-Curry
Books
AnOther: Ibrahem Hasan’s 728-page book Yesterday, Come Closer explores the complexities of Palestinian life. “We’re not a monolith,” | text Maya Abuali
Schilt Publishing: The Information Front, #3. Ukraine – a decade of war
Podcast/Videos
Bell pepper. Photo Robert Gumpert 01 September 2012
Appalshop - Youtube: “Fast Food Women” | by Anne Lewis
The Documentary (BBC): Three Million: The f-word 3/5
Headbanging Headlines:
Mushroom. Photo Robert Gumpert 10 November 2012
The Guardian: Executives at Texas summit claim clean-energy transition is failing and say world should ‘abandon the fantasy’ of fossil-fuel phaseout
SF Chronicle: California insurance crisis: State Farm won’t renew 72,000 policies
TPM: Election Officials Get Pointers On How To Appear More Human To Extremists
Other Stuff
Haiti. Photo Robert Gumpert 1990
NY Times: If Nvidia Keeps Rising Like this, It Will Be Bigger Than the Global Economy | by Jeff Sommer
Wired: Why Elon Musk Had to Open Source Grok, His Answer to ChatGPT | by Will Knight
Scientific American: The Quest to Build a Truly Intelligent Machine Helps Us Learn about Our Own Intelligence | by George Musser
Techcrunch: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI hallucinations are solvable, artificial general intelligence is 5 years away | by Haje Jan Kamps
Mission Local: The strange and terrible saga of Harlan Kelly: Prison for ex-PUC boss | by Joe Eskenazi
NY Times: Tesla’s Troubles Raise Questions About Its Invincibility | by Melissa Eddy and Jack Ewing
Market Watch: AI brings existential crisis for Apple, Salesforce and tech’s old guard: Partner or perish | by Jon Swartz
Slate: The Supreme Court’s conservatives are annoyed at the 5th Circuit. | by Mark Joseph Stern
ProPublica: Chinese Organized Crime Dominates America’s Illicit Marijuana Market | by Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg, ProPublica, and Garrett Yalch and Clifton Adcock, The Frontier
Washington Post: Stormy Daniels doc is a portrait of a woman destroyed by Donald Trump | by Jada Yuan
Labor
The Guardian: US Volkswagen workers file for union election to join United Auto Workers | by Michael Saint
Portside: The Era of Abundant Labor Reporting Is Coming to an End | by Hamilton Nolan
Aeon: Why the emotional labour of hospital staff is dirty work | by Susanna Crossman, edited by Marina Benjamin
Social Issues - Election 2024
Lower Mission district, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 16 February 2016
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Donald Trump’s Horst Wessel moment | Will Bunch Newsletter | by Will Bunch
The Salt Lake Tribune: ‘We are losing our kids to a satanic cult,’ Sen. Tommy Tuberville warns during Utah campaign stop to endorse Republican U.S. Senate candidate Trent Staggs in the race to replace Utah Sen. Mitt Romney | by Bryan Schott
The Washington Post: Linda Wenhold absorbed Patriot Academy’s message that America is falling apart as it drifts from its biblical roots. Then she won a seat on her local Pennsylvania school board. | by Greg Jaffe
LA Times: One far-right leader ousted. Another barely hangs on. Is Shasta rejecting MAGA politics? | by Hailey Branson-Potts, Jessica Garrison
LA Times: Trump has big plans for California if he wins second term | by Doyle McManus
The Guardian: Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ | by Patrick Wintour
Social Issues
The Bristlecone: The Case Against The Case Against YIMBYism - A response to Michael Friedrich's "The Case Against YIMBYism.” | by Ned Resnikoff
The New Republic: Elon Musk Leads America’s Top Tax-Dodging CEOs | by Jason Linkins
BBC: San Quentin begins prison reform - but not for those on death row | by Madeline Halpert
The Guardian: Disputed medical terms used to explain dozens of deaths after police restraint in UK | by Shanti Das
LA Times: The end of Skid Row's cheap hotels? L.A. leaders want to replace homeless housing | by Liam Dillon, Doug Smith
NY Times: Chicago Begins Evicting Migrants From Shelters, Citing Strain on Resources | by Miriam Jordon
LA Times: California communities are banning syringe programs. Now the state is fighting back in court | by Emily Alpert Reyes
The Guardian: ‘Is this how I die?’ John Crace on his terrifying heart attack
The Washington Post: Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion | by Lauren Weber and Sabrina Malhi
Division Street
Koreatown, Los Angeles, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 23 November 2018
The Bristlecone: Vacancies are a Red Herring - We have a homelessness crisis because we don't have enough housing. | by Ned Resnikoff
The Guardian: Florida is seeing an increase in homelessness. A Republican bill could make it worse | by Richard Luscombe
Dezeen: "Social housing has become a matter of enclaves and micro-sites” | by Owen Hatherley
Barn Raiser: Taking Stock of Rural America’s ‘Hidden’ Homeless | by Kristi Eaton
Washington Post: Wealthy Sedona’s answer to housing crisis: A parking lot to sleep in | by Ben Brasch
BBC News, West Midlands: Marc Davenant’s images of 'Harrowing' stories of homelessness and slum housing | by Vanessa Pearce
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11 March - 17 March 2024
Tarp overing a tent at Bryant and Division streets, under the freeway. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 12 March 2024
Photography
The New Yorker: Stephen DiRado’s A Begrudgingly Affectionate Portrait of the American Mall | by Margaret Talbot
Leica Camera Blog: Leica Women Foto Project Award 2024 are Luvia Lazo, Camille Farrah Lenain, Stasia Schmidt and Dola Posh
Autograph: Street Scenes from the East End, 1950-1980 The Photography of Bandele 'Tex' Ajetunmobi
Autograph: Art In Focus - Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism
Autograph: Parity and Representation in Photojournalism
MoMA: An-My Lê Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières
Magnum: International Women’s Day 2024
Wallpaper*: From Wall Street to Studio 54: a short film celebrates Larry Fink | by Tianna Williams
Beware: A la découverte d’Andreas Gursky : Photographe de l’impossible | by Matthieu Garnier
The Eye of Photography: MYOP : Hemeria : Olivier Laban-Mattei & Lisandru Laban-Giuliani : Neige noire & Variations en solitude majeure
Blind: On Rana Plaza Collapse by Ismail Ferdous | by Amber Terranova
Lenscratch: The International Women in Photo Association Awards: Rayito Flores Pelcastre: Chirping of Crickets | by Sara Bennett
Lens Culture: Black and White War | Photos by Igor Malijevský, essay by Margold Warner
Creative Boom: Photographer Keisha Scarville wins the inaugural 2024 Saltzman Prize | by Dom Carter
Blind: The Street Under My Skin | Photos by Brice Gelot
NSD51/50: Projects - Brice Gelot
W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund: Irina Werning Receives 44th Annual Grant in Humanistic Photography for “Las Pelilargas,” Documenting the Power of Long Hair in Latin American Culture
Irina Werning: Las Pelilargas
Culture, Art and Design
Graffiti on a piece scrap iron hanging on a fence. San Bruno Avenue and 15th Street, San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 2 February 2024
Field of View: The Perfect, Imperfect Royal Family Photo | by Patrick Witty
LRB: Des briques, des briques - review of Steven Brindle’s Architecture in Britain and Ireland: 1530-1830 | by Rosemary Hill
Dezeen: Ten modernist council estates that made a "vital contribution" to London's architecture | by Cajsa Carlson
LA Times: Upheaval wrestles with tradition in Korean art of the 1960s and ’70s at the Hammer Museum | by Christopher Knight
Aeon: Why governments and business like to offload risk to individuals | by Suzanne Schneider, edited by Sam Haselby
The Guardian: ‘To the train lady with dark brown hair … ’: extraordinary stories of four couples who found love via small ads | by Amelia Tait
Books
Photo-eye Blog: Winogrand Color | reviewed by Blake Andrews
Photobook Journal: Ed Panar – Winter Nights, Walking | by Brian F. O’Neill
1000 Words: Teju Cole Pharmakon | review by Anneka French
Podcast
WTF-Stop: #19 Tony Othen - Life Through Photography
The New Republic: How the Media Whitewashes the Trump-MAGA Threat—Revealed by an Insider | with Greg Sargent
A Small Voice: 226 - Nicole Tung in conversation with Ben Smith
Other Stuff
Sleeping rough amongst large planters used all over San Francisco as homeless abatement. Turk between Van Ness and Franklin streets. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 14 March 2024
NY Times: The Fourth Anniversary of the Covid Pandemic | by David Leonhardt
NY Times: The ZIP Code Shift: Why Many Americans No Longer Live Where They Work | by Emma Goldberg
CNN: Citizenship (Amendment) Act: India moves to implement controversial bill that excludes Muslims | by Heather Law, Vedika Sud and Tara John
CNN: Top news outlets acknowledge Hur’s characterization of Biden’s mental state didn’t match reality | by Oliver Darcy
SF Chronicle: Battle rages in Santa Cruz area over a fence blocking beach pathway | by Megan Fan Munce
Washington Post: Schumer calls for ‘new election’ in Israel in scathing speech on Netanyahu | by Liz Goodwin
Aljazeera: Former Trump official Steve Mnuchin puts forward plan to buy TikTok app
Labor
PM Press - kickstarter campaign: Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike, Need Not Greed is a career-spanning collection of visual art by one of Britain’s greatest unsung political cartoonists - Alan Hardman.
NY Times: The Last Gold Beater in Venice | by Milena Lazazzera, photo Matteo de Mayda
LA Times: A farewell to the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant | photos by Genaro Molina
Social Issues - 2024 Elections
A little piece of street art. 9th Street near Mission Street. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 12 March 2024
The Guardian: Missouri law prevents divorce during pregnancy – even in cases of violence | by Lizzie Tribune
NY Times: Why Is Congress Probing a Union for Being Anti-Israel? | by Michelle Goldberg
The New Yorker: Listened to Trump’s Rambling, Unhinged, Vituperative Georgia Rally—and So Should You | by Susan B. Glasser
The New Yorker: Mike Johnson, The First Proudly Truman Speaker | by David D. Kirkpatrick
Social Issues
Sleeping rough in a door way on 9th Street between Howard and Mission. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 12 March 2024
The Guardian: Companies paid top executives more than they paid in US taxes | by Callum Jones
Mother Jones: Elon Musk Keeps Spreading a Very Specific Kind of Racism | by Arianna Coghill and Garrison Hayes
SF Chronicle: Monthly S.F. street party for 10,000 aims to break downtown’s doom loop | by Aidin Vaziri
McSweeney’s: The Supreme Court Decides This Year’s Best Picture Winner | by Jay Wexler
NY Times Magazine: Whitewash: The 50-year campaign to undo the progress of the civil rights movement in the name of “colorblindness” | by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Photo Illustration Mark Harris
Division Street
Waiting at the intersection of 11th, Bryant and 13th streets before catching a bus. L) Anthony Luciano, 36. Unhoused for 2.5 years. He was recently assaulted by a security guard at a Safeway. R) Christoper Keys, 54, unhoused for about 4 years. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 11 March 2024
SF Chronicle: S.F.’s first new office conversion projection in doubt as developer faces foreclosure | by Laura Waxmann
Dezeen: "Tiny homes are not the big solution to homelessness that we need” | by Cynthia Griffith
The Giro: More states are criminalizing the homeless population | by Josiah Bates
Dezeen: Social Housing series exploring the new wave of quality social housing being built around the world, and asking
SF Chronicle: S.F. hit with another lawsuit over drug crisis, alleging Tenderloin is a ‘containment zone’ | by Maggie Angst
LA Times: Federal judge seeks audit of L.A. homelessness programs | by Ruben Vives
LA Times: Editorial: Bass had a strong first year on homelessness. Year 2, L.A. needs more housing
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04 March - 10 March 2024
Morning light. Before opening on Potrero Hill. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 9 March 2024
Photography
Archival Recordings: A Landscape Photographer | by Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
David Hill Gallery: Street Life - group exhibition
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff: Chema Madoz : Recent works
George Avetisyan: Works
Blind: Cécile Asanuma-Brice Okawerinasai! | by Benoit Dupuis-Tordjeman
Polka: Charles Delcourt, Lauréat du Prix Eurazeo 2023: Je Suis Un Photographe du Non—Événement” | Interview par Sarah Petitbon
Blind: Burt Glinn: Half a Century as a Magnum Photographer | by Robert E. Gerhardt
AnOther: Gordon Parks: Pioneering Photographer of Black American Life | by Elodie Saint-Louis
The Guardian: Artists, children, sex workers: Christer Strömholm’s sympathetic street scenes | by Mee-Lai Stone
Lenscratch: European Week: Steffen Diemer | by Sarah Knobel
Lens Culture: My Sweet Elora | photos Luuk van Raamskonk, essay Magali Duzant
Aperture: A Mother’s Relentless Quest to Find her Missing Son - photographer Billy H.C. Kwok convinced Ms. Yu to tell her story | by Ken Chen
Huck: In Photos: The Miners’ Strike, 40 Years On | by Isaac Musk
Blind: Through James Webb’s astronomical eye | by Benoit Dupuis-Tordjeman
Magnum: But Seriously: An Erwitt Exhibition at the Magnum Gallery
Lens Culture: LensCulture Recommendations: Photo Festivals & Photo Fairs 2024
Daniele Tamagni Foundation: Projects
Flashbak: Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
Culture, Art and Design
After starting before sunrise to beat the heat, farmworkers eat a meal under the shade before starting work again at the temperature climbed towards 106 F. Near Salinas, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 2002
Medium: My Mother, Ouk Lee Kim’s Korean Dumplings. | by Yunghi Kim
Longreads: The Expanding Table: Honoring Palestinian Culinary Tradition in Arkansas | by Jordon P. Hickey
Poor Man’s Feast: Katherine May: A Breakfast Conversation - On the Joy of a Proper Breakfast | by Elissa Altman
Artsy: Museums Are Reframing the Legacy of Black Art in 2024—Starting with the Harlem Renaissance | by Jaelynn Walls
The Guardian: Daniele Tamagni’s Heavy metal cowboys and Congolese dandies: Africa’s alternative style icons
BJP: In a time of global conflict, photo quilts offer unlikely solace - Jenny Matthew | by Mick Moore
Reading The Pictures: The Fading Force: Has Trump Lost His Edge in His Court-Defying Visual Strategy? | by Michael Shaw
Dezeen: "More good architects should get involved in social housing" says Daniel Libeskind | by Amy Peacock
Dezeen: "We need a major shift in the way we look at public housing” | by Peter Apps
Hyperallergic: Sarah Grilo’s Prescient Abstraction | by Tim Keane
AnOther: Chelsea Hotel Portraits by Tony Notarberardino | text Osman Can Yerebakan
Daniele Tamagni Foundation: Archive
Metropolis: How Dune and Poor Things Rely on Architecture History | by Jaxon Stone
Oxford American: A Political Blues | by Maxwell George
Five Things I Saw & Read This Week: Saturday, March 9th, 2024: “I’m Your Puppet” | by Martin Colyer
Books
Loose Joints Publishing: Nigel Shafran – Workbooks
Loose Joints Publishing: Abdulhamid Kircher – Rotting from Within
El País: ‘Solito: A Memoir’ by Javier Zamora - The story of a harrowing migration journey through the eyes of a child | by Sergio C. Fanjul
Dewis Lewis: THE ENEMY WITHIN - The Miners' Strike 1984/85 | by Michael Kerstgens
Podcast
“What would you like?”, cafe server. Cafe in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Photo Robert Gumpert 1986
Aperture: Rediscovering the Photographs of Ernest Cole | Aperture Conversations
Desert Island Discs: Val Wilmer, writer and photographer
10 FPS: Episode 96: Devin Allen (Street Photography) | by John Devecka
Organize the Unorganized - The Rise of the CIO | by Benjamin Fong
Headbanging Headlines:
Ventriloquist convention, Las Vegas, Nevada Photo Robert Gumpert 2004
The Guardian: Kentucky senate passes bill for child support of unborn children
Huffpost: Mark Robinson R/NC): 'I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn’t Vote’
The Guardian: George Santos attends State of the Union and announces another run for Congress
WSJ: What’s in a $178,000 Oscars Gift Bag?
Other Things
The Guardian: I’m still reeling from Rishi Sunak’s shameless, dangerous speech | by Caroline Lucas
The Guardian: ‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat | by Èlia Borràs
Aeon: Rethinking the homunculus | by Moheb Costandi - edited by Pam Weintraub
The Guardian: ‘My period has become a nightmare’: life in Gaza without sanitary products | by Aseel Mousa
LRB: Lula, Bolsonaro and Israel | by Forest Hylton
Print: News From a Changing Planet: Seeing Algae From Space | by Tatiana Schlossbert
PetaPixel: Microsoft Engineer Says Company’s AI Ignores Copyrights, Creates ‘Sickening’ Images | by Jaron Schneider
Civil Eats: Walmart’s Pandemic Port Squeeze | by Dana Cronin
TPM: Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’ | by Josh Kovensky
Labor
Coal miners, members of the United Mine Workers, near Price, Utah. Photo Robert Gumpert 1984
Dewis Lewis: THE ENEMY WITHIN - The Miners' Strike 1984/85 | by Michael Kerstgens
Portside: he Most Important Labor Story Right Now Is in Minnesota—It Might Be the Model We All Need | by Sarah Jaffe
TPM: UAW’s Southern Strategy: Union Revs Up Drive To Get Workers Employed By Foreign Automakers To Join Its Ranks | by Bob Bussel
Social Issues (2024 Elections)
NBC News: Map: 29 million Americans live under new voter ID laws put in place since 2020 | by Catherine Allen
The New Yorker: Joe Biden’s Last Campaign | by Evan Osnos
NY Times: Trump’s Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls | by Alexandra Berton, Nick Corasaniti
Washington Post: What’s behind the Supreme Court’s furious agreement on Trump in Colorado | by Ruth Marcus
Washington Post: Bernie Sanders warned President Biden privately on 2024 message | by Jeff Stein
New York Intelligencer: An Ex-KGB Agent Says Trump Was a Russian Asset Since 1987. Does It Matter? | by Johnathan Chait
Texas Monthly: The Far Right in Texas Crashed Through Its Last Guardrail | by Forrest Wilder
Convergence: Defeat the Far Right, We Must Build From the Bottom Up | by Luis Feliz Leon
Social Issues
Portsmouth Square community park. Chinatown, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 9 March 2024
The New Yorker: Thinking About A.I. With Stanislaw Lem | by Rivka Galchen
El País: The spread of artificially generated adult content is beginning to compete with content featuring real people and poses serious questions about addiction, consent and fraud | by Marco Antonio Gomes
The Lever: Burned by legal decisions, Elon Musk is relocating his rocket company to Texas — where he’ll enjoy a new, separate justice system controlled by his ally, Gov. Greg Abbott. | by Katya Schwenk and Helen Santoro
The New Yorker: Caitlin Bernard is risking her career, and her safety, to care for pregnant patients. | by Peter Slevin
The Guardian: Take it from a former banker: the budget is for ordinary people. The mega-rich look on and laugh | by Gary Stevenson
News Channel 5 Nashville: REVEALED: Secret recording shows school voucher proponent talking of 'public hangings' of lawmakers | by Phil Williams
Nieman Lab: Report for America is “phasing out” partnerships with hedge fund-owned publications | by Sophie Culpepper
CBS News: 50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says | by Aimee Picchi
High Country News: Disaster disparities in the West | by Natalia Mesa
BBC: Colorado DNA scandal threatens to overturn hundreds of criminal cases | by Max Matza
Division Street
Richmond District. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 3 March 2024
KQED: Despite Progress, Santa Clara County Sees Sharp Rise in First-Time Homelessness | by Vanessa Rancaño
The San Francisco Standard: San Francisco is punting its failures on homelessness to Trump judges | by Chesa Boudin
ProPublica: Massachusetts’ Highly Touted Push to “Significantly Reduce” Affordable Housing Vacancies Barely Made a Dent | by Todd Wallack, WBUR
LA Times: L.A.'s infamous Cecil Hotel, now housing homeless, for sale | by Grace Toohey
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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26 February - 03 March 2024
Chinese New Year’s Parade. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 24 February 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
Chinese New Year’s Parade. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 24 February 2024
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
Sundial, Skull and power meters. Potrero Hill - San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 29 February 2024
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
Man found shot is examined by a man from the Medical Examiner’s office while homicide detectives wait. In 1994 San Francisco had 98 murders. In 2023: 53. San Francisco, California.
Photo Robert Gumpert 1994
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
Belongings and things left on the street in back of San Francisco General Hospital. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 29 February 2024
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
Tent and belongings. Dore and Bryant streets, under the freeway overpass. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 4 February 2024
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
“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
19 February - 25 February 2024
Waiting for the movie to start. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 19 February 2024
Photography
The Guardian: Backstage at the 2024 Baftas | by Sarah Lee
Sage Sohier: Photographs
Polka: “AUTOPSIE D’UN SPECTACLE”, LE LIVRE QUI RÉSOUT L’ÉNIGME WEEGEE | by Dimitri Beck
Joseph Bellows Gallery: Bevan Davies
Oceanographic: On seals, champagne and thick ice blankets | photos Alex Dawson
Wallpaper*: What happened when Spike Jonze met Björk | by Hannah Silver
WeTransfer: The day I met Björk, a free download. | photo by Spike Jonze
Creative Boom: Photographer Jack Kenyon discovered the spirit of India after missing a camel fair | by Dom Carter
The Guardian: The best of photography by Black female photographers | by Sarah Gilbert
The Guardian: ‘A picture of hell’: inside the UK’s nuclear reactors | by Michael Collins
Field of View: The Violent End of Malcolm X - Intimate rarely-seen photos from the assassination of the enigmatic civil rights icon, taken by a close friend. | by Patrick Witty
Lorraine Turci: Une vie de chalut
Colin Delfosse: Zairians
PDNB: Earlie Hudnall, Jr.
Lens Culture: Beggar’s Honey, photos by Jack Latham | review Erik Vroons
BJP: Edward Burtynsky on climate, abstraction, and hanging photos like paintings | by Ravi Ghosh
Culture, Art and Design
Westbourne Bridge near Paddington Station. London, England. Photo Robert Gumpert 12 September 2023
McSweeney’s: My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I sent in the Slack | by Gwynna Forgham-Thrift
NY Times: How Long Is Too Long to Stay in Bed? | by Elizabeth Passarella
LA Times: ‘It’s a lot of UFO stuff and a lot of healing’: Inside L.A.’s wackiest spiritual convention | by Deborah Netburn, Photos Me Melcon
Aeon: There was no Jesus | by Gavin Evans, edited by Marina Benjamin
National Gallery of Art: Conversations: Kerry James Marshall and John Singleton Copley
Wallpaper*: New York artist Christopher Astley showcases an alternative natural world | by Tianna Williams
Print: The Daily Heller: 20 Years, 600 Concert Posters, a Legacy of Music Design | by Steven Heller
Poor Man’s Feast: When she asked me for chicken parmigiana - The Importance of Making Comfort Food | by Elissa Altman
Meanwhile: Coastal Gothique - Behold, your semi-regular supply of distracting hyperlinks. | by Daniel Benneworth-Gray
Ninu Nina: Exploring the Multifaceted Artistry of Joe Taveras
The Blue Moment: ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ at 100 | by Richard Williams
Hyperallergic: Kayla Powers Weaves Sensory Maps of Detroit - The fiber artist forages local plants to create delicate urban-agrarian weavings. | by Sarah Rose Sharp
Print: A Tower of Graffiti Takes Center Stage In Downtown LA | by Charlotte Beach
Books
PhotoBook Journal: Tom Griggs – A Creature Obeys A Creature That Wants / La criatura sigue a su animal interior | Guest Review by Lee Halvorsen
Hyperallergic: Giulia Paoletti - Seeing Photography as an African Art For | book review by Sarah Rose Sharp
Print: 15 of the Best Book Covers of the Month | by Zachary Petit
Blake Andrews (IG): Division Street | reviewed by Blake Andrews (@swerdnaekalb)
Podcast
Westbourne Bridge near Paddington Station. London, England. Photo Robert Gumpert 12 September 2023
Jonathan Pie: Dear Rishi Sunak
A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers: #224 Edward Burtynsky
Print: Revision Path: Katrina Lenzly - Host Maurice Cherry chats with award-winning art director, Katrina Lenzly on the realities of advocating for Black-centric narratives and DEI initiatives in the design industry.
Points South: Part 2 about Mitchellville - Daisy Bates in Mitchellville
NPR: Does Portugal Have The Answer To Stopping Drug Overdose Deaths?
Straight White American Jesus: Christian nationalism in the United States
Headbanging Headlines:
The Marshall Project: Medical Marijuana Is Legal, But Oklahoma Is Charging Women for Using It While Pregnant
USA Today: Sylvester Stallone hired Navy SEALs to train daughters to live in NYC
NBC News: Hunter Biden's lawyers say prosecutors confused a picture of sawdust with cocaine
ProPublica: St. Louis Police Chief Receives $100K a Year From Local Group, Raising Concerns
LA Times: To fix Ozempic face (and Ozempic boobs), weight-loss patients are turning to plastic surgery
Tulsa World: Girl Scouts threaten legal action over troop's fundraiser for children in Gaza
Washington Post: Florida surgeon general defies science amid measles outbreak
Other Stuff
PetePixel: OpenAI Has Us Asking: What Happened to Ethical Software Development? | by Jaron Schneider
El País: Brad Smith, president of Microsoft: ‘We must have a way to slow down or turn off artificial intelligence’ | by Patricia Fernández de Lis
McSweeney’s: How Far We’ve Come Since 2016 | by Rachel Keller, Katy Maiolatesi, and Meg reid
Nautilus: Unraveling the Evolution of Flight | by Elena Renken
The Guardian: Notting Hill residents’ capital gains exceed people of ‘three cities combined’ | by Rupert Neate
Dissent: Labour Under New Management | by James Stafford
Bloomberg Law: Alex Jones Estate Liquidation Gets Sandy Hook Families’ Vote | by Alex Wolf
SF Chronicle: A teen was shot dead on a quiet SF street. Now, new details emerge | by Annie Vainshtein
Dezeen: Scientists develop hybrid "beef rice" as future meat alternative | by Rima Sabina Aouf
Psyche: Rubber hand illusions shed new light on our bodily sense of self | by Shayla Love, edited by Christian Jarrett
Pulitzer Center: Pulled From the Deep: Scientists Found a ‘Lost’ Deep-Sea Mining Site off the SC Coast. What Secrets Does it Hold? | by Clare Fieseler
Labor
Copper miner on strike, Morenci, Arizona. Photo Robert Gumpert 1985
Huffpost: 21 Starbucks Stores Plan To Form Unions In 1-Day Blitz | by Dave Jameson
Courthouse News Service: New Labor Department rule could turn many freelancers into employees | by Thomas F. Harrison
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Ban on family members “will force migrant care workers into poverty” | by Vicky Gayle , Emiliano Mellino , Natalie Bloomer
Labor Notes: Ford’s Battery Flagship Socked by Mold Sickness, Workers Say | by Schuyler Mitchell and Keith Brower Brown
Portside: How Four Black Women Changed Homecare Organizing Forever | by Irma Sherman, Chair of McMaid Workers Organizing Committee,
Social Issues - 2024 Elections
NY Times: Those $399 Gold Trump Sneakers Are About a Lot More Than Shoes | by Vanessa Friedman
Business Insider: An Alabama judge ruled that frozen embryos are people, and reproductive rights advocates are sounding the alarm | by Alex Nicoll
Washington Post: Opinion | Fani Willis takes the stand | by Jennifer Rubin
TPM: No. Ezra Klein is Completely Wrong. Here’s Why. | by Josh Marshall
Boston Review: When W. E. B. Du Bois Was “Un-American” | by Andrew Lanham
Social Issues
Brian Howey: How a ‘Goon Squad’ of Deputies Got Away With Years of Brutality
The Irish Times: Care workers won’t be allowed bring family to Britain as part of immigration crackdown | by Mark Paul
South China Morning Post: Britain bans international students from bringing families to UK
Division Street
Once occupied by a steel plant and then a large hardware store this vacant site along side the onramp for I 280(S) has for years been a site of the unhoused setup camp. Being next to the onramp and the train line running below the roadway, the air quality is always bad. Photo Robert Gumpert 16 February 2024
Blake Andrews (IG): Division Street | reviewed by Blake Andrews (@swerdnaekalb)
Sage Journals: The Second Demolition of Wood Street - Photos and Text by David Bacon
JSTOR Daily: The Tiny House Trend Began 100 Years Ago | by S. N. Johnson-Roehr
The Guardian: Revealed: 300% surge in deaths of unhoused people in LA amid fentanyl and housing crises | by Sam Levin in Los Angeles and Will Craft in New York
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“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
12 February - 18 February 2024
Misson Street - San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 15 February 2024
Photography
Lenscratch: Focus on Aging: Beate Sass: I belong to you and you to me | by Ruth Steinberg
Helga Paris: Buildings and Faces
Art Blart: Exhibition: ‘Helga Paris, Photographer’ at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin | curator: Inka Schube
Art Blart: Exhibition: ‘Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective’ at The Photographers’ Gallery, London | curator: Thyago Nogueira, Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, Brazil
Magnum: The Photographers’ Selection: 2023
BJP: The Desi Boys will show you Kolkata from the streets | by Ravi Ghosh
Lens Culture: Gilded Lilies | Photographs by Tine Poppe
Interview by Sophie Wright
Huck: A Glimpse Inside the World’s Most Secretive Arms Fairs | Text by Isaac Muk, Photography by Nikita Teryoshin
Field of View: The Hindenburg Disaster, Rediscovered | by Patrick Witty
Washington Post: The things we do can come at a heavy cost, even photography | The things we do can come at a heavy cost, even photography Photo by Louie Palu, words Kenneth Dickerman
Creative Boom: Artistic rebel, urban poet: new book celebrates the iconic photography of Saul Leiter | Written By: Tom May
Jerry Uelsmann: Selected Works
Blind: Fabrice Dekoninck Bosnian Memories | by Benoit Dupuis-Tordjeman
Photojournalism News: An important lesson I learnt as a photojournalist | by Mariella Ferrer
Texas Monthly: To Live and Die in Dallas: A Year Inside the City’s Homicide Unit | Photograph by Richard Sharum, words Bill Shapiro
The Guardian: Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza: ‘The ghosts of Gaza follow me everywhere’ | by Thaslima Begum in Doha
Aperture: Rediscovering the Photographs of Ernest Cole talk Tuesday, February 27
Culture, Art and Design
Wooden fence blocking the view of empty lot in the Fisherman’s Wharf area of San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 17 February 2024
NY Times: Lost at Parkland: ‘Peter Was Always My Translator’ | by Amy Qin
Barry Lewis: GULAG - A photographic journey into the darkness of Stalin's Siberian prison camps (Kickstarter page)
Huck: Past and present collide in Steve McQueen and Bianca Stitger’s Occupied City, an experimental documentary about Amsterdam under Nazi occupation. | by Shelley Jones
Hyperallergic: Ben Shahn’s Ever-Relevant Political Art | by Lauren Moya Ford
Dezeen: Why aren't more architects using stone as a building material? | by Any Peacock
Wallpaper: The architects who built Palm Springs: midcentury modernism focus | by Ellie Stathaki
Print: The Daily Heller: Underwater Underground From World War II
Hyperallergic: The Importance of Art in a “Good Death” | by Brianna L. Hernández
The Guardian: Up the Up’ards, down the Down’ards! The Royal Shrovetide Football Game | by Paul Bellsham
Texas Monthly: The Billionaire Bully Who Wants to Turn Texas Into a Christian Theocracy | by Russell Gold
Washington Post: How does Huy Fong sriracha compare to its new rival? We tried both. | by Emily Heil
Five Things Seen and Heard: To the memory of Alexei Navalny | by Martin Colyer
Books
MACK: Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain Joy Gregory (ed.)
Photobook Journal: Terri Weifenbach – Cloud Physics | review by Douglas Stockdale
Huck: The Magnum agency photographer talks about his new book covering protests, political crises, and human tragedy in Turkey | Text by Isaac Muk - Photography by Emin Özmen
Dewi Lewis: Burnt House Lane by Michelle Sank with an introduction by Diane Smyth. A kickstarter campaign
Podcast
Fred Ritchin: Photography for a better world
The Food Chain: Detroit’s Urban Farmers
The Food Chain: Rebuilding Turkey’s Food Culture
Points South: Foundations of a Black Town | producer Christian Leus
Washington Post: The broken promises of the NFL’s concussion settlement
Headbanging Headlines:
The Guardian: Bring back Boris voices are growing louder but will a desperate Sunak listen?
Washington Post: Okaloosa, Florida cop fires at unarmed man after acorn falls on car
The Hill: GoFundMe launched to help pay Trump’s legal fees
Other Stuff
Looking north towards “downtown”, 18th Street and Kanas, Potrero Hill District. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 16 February 2024
Washington Monthly: It's Not Just the Border: The Trump-Abbott-Republican Nullification Crisis Is Here | by Garrett Epps
LA Times: Falling EV sales raise worries over California climate plan | by Russ Mitchell
LRB blog: Eyes on Gaza | by Selma Dabbagh
The Conversation: Misinformation: how fact-checking journalism is evolving – and having a real impact on the world | by Beth Daley
LA Times: Opinion: I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. I saw annihilation, not war | by Irfan Galaria
DarkRading: iOS, Android Malware Steals Faces to Defeat Biometrics With AI Swaps | by Nate Nelson
9to5Mac: Protect against iPhone trojan GoldPickaxe: How-to | by Michael Potuck
Labor
Two construction workers eat their lunch on a job in Union Square. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 04 January 2017
Aljazeera: Shooting war: Gaza’s visual storytellers under ‘blatant’ attack | by Lorraine Mallinder
The Guardian: ‘It has really gotten out of hand’: wage theft rampant in US construction | by Michael Sainato
Techcrunch: Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law | by Amanda Silberling
Bloomberg: Tesla, VW, Toyota, Nissan, BMW Targets of UAW Auto Union Push | by Josh Eidelson
UAW: Nearly 9,000 UAW Autoworkers Serve Strike Notice at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant Over Local Agreement Issues Including Health & Safety and Skilled Trades
The Nation: Michigan Just Became the First State in 6 Decades to Scrap an Infamous Anti-Union Law | by John Nichols
Social Issues - 2024 US Elections
Political posters from the group “Together SF”, one of the groups highlighted in the story: Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’ from the Guardian and Mission Local. On a fence hiding a vacant lot in the Fisherman’s Wharf area. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 17 February 2024
The Guardian and Mission Local: Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’ | by Ali Winston, with graphics by Will Jarrett, of Mission Local
The Guardian: The US supreme court may turn this election into a constitutional crisis | by Sidney Blumenthal
TPM: Trump Attorneys Gamed Out Which Justices Might Help Them Steal the Election | by Josh Kovensky
Washington Post: Opinion | Hur’s outrageous partisanship. Garland’s stupidity | by Jennifer Rubin
TPM: Fani Willis Endures Disrespect, Racist Tropes And Public Ridicule | by David Kurtz
Washington Post: Trump’s anger at courts, frayed alliances could upend approach to judicial issues | by Josh Dawsey and Marianne LeVine
NY Times: The Political Disaster of the Fani Willis Hearing | by Charles M. Blow
Social Issues
NBC News: Mississippi coroner who buried men without telling their families: ‘I don’t know how to find people’ | by Jon Schuppe and Mike Hixenbaugh
NBC: Texas attorney who poisoned pregnant wife with abortion medication sentenced to 180 days in jail | by Minyvonne Burke
Texas Observer: Jim Crow Still Lingers in Bonham, Civil Rights Lawyers Say | by Josephine Lee
TPM: The Legal Coup - New Documents Reveal How Trump Lawyers Sought ‘Chaos’ to Force SCOTUS, or Whoever Else, to Anoint Trump | by Josh Kovensky
The Appeal: Why Do Americans Think the U.S. Is too “Soft” on Crime? | by Ethan Corey
NPR: Hurricane Idalia shows nature may provide the best shoreline protection | by Greg Allen
ProPublica: She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life. | by Stacy Kranitz, special to ProPublica, and Kavitha Surana
NY Times: The Addiction Recovery Story We Don’t Hear Enough | by Nicholas Kristof
Division Street
Make-shift tent and closet next to a vacant lot on Pennsylvania, between Mariposa and 18th Street, Potrero Hill. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 16 February 2024
The Guardian and Mission Local: Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’ | by Ali Winston, with graphics by Will Jarrett, of Mission Local
LA Times: The many reasons MAGA’s love for San Francisco shouldn’t stop with the Super Bowl | by Erika D. Smith
Seattle Times: A Seattle suburb known for affordability becomes example of U.S. debate on homelessness | by Anna Patrick
Chicago Sun-Times: Housing should be a human right | Kara Young Ponder
See more of my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis
“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
05 February - 11 February 2024
The statue honoring SF Giant and Hall of Famer Willie Howard Mays, Jr. at Giant Stadium. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 07 February 2024
Photography
Peter Fetterman Gallery: Byung-Hun Min
Chavez Photo: An Uncertain End - Migrant Families at US - Mexico Border
Chavez Photo: Five Days - Georgia Russia War 2008
PetaPixel: Zuckerberg’s Going to Use Your Instagram Photos to Train His AI Machines | by Matt Growcoot
Greg Girard: Half The Surface of The World
BJP: Sebastián Bruno bids a long farewell to Wales | by Aaron Schuman
Mark Chapman: God's Promises Mean Everything - a photobook by Mark Chapman (a kickstarter campaign for the book to be published by Dewi Lewis)
PhMuseum: Temporary Homes | by Daria Svertilova
Milton Rogovin: Photography Series
Huck: Inside Life On Tijuana’s Garbage Dumps | text by Isaac Muk, photography by Jack Lueders-Booth
PennToday: Civil Rights photography at the Penn Libraries - Six Penn Art Collection images by photographer Bruce Davidson are on view through May 20 in a new ‘alcove’ gallery.
Blind: Photography at All Costs | by Benoit Dupuis-Tordjeman
Washington Post: These images delve into the psychology of conflict’s stress | perspective by Kenneth Dickerman
The Guardian: Photographer Sebastião Salgado at 80: ‘They say I was an aesthete of misery’ | by Andrei Netto
The New Yorker: Robert Cumming - The Pioneering Wizard of West Coast Photo-Conceptualism | by Chris Wiley
Aperture: Photographer Zhang Xiao’s Record of New Year Celebrations in Northern China | by Lisa Barbash
Metal: Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective - A Life (Not Only) in Grainy Black and White | words Víctor Moreno
Huxley-Parlour: Joel Myerowitz
NPR: Portraits from El Salvador's nearly 2-year, sprawling crackdown on gang suspects | by Carlos Barrera
The Guardian: ‘We all lost. That’s where hatred leads’: 10 years after her son was beheaded, Diane Foley on why she met one of his killers | by Emma Brockes
Culture, Art and Design
Danseur noble of the San Francisco Ballet. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 2004
Texas Observer: Abbott Appointee Slams Brakes on American Indian/Native Studies Course | by Josephine Lee
The Guardian: What a legendary historian tells us about the contempt for today’s working class | by Kenan Malik
Hyperallergic: How African-American Museums Are Navigating Book Bans | by Rhea Nayyar
It’s Nice That: One Year! Tracing the visual legacy of the miners’ strike | by Olivia Hingley
McSweeney’s: A Day in the Life of Taylor Swift, As Imagined by Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists | Jessica M. Goldstein
Washington Post: Inside the graffiti-covered L.A. skyscrapers that drew global attention | by Kelsey Ables
Artsy: Hans Ulrich Obrist Is Here to Save the Art of Handwriting | by Josie Thaddeus-Johns
High Country News: Still Dead A poem by Jill McDonough.
Oxford American: All Kinds of Mysterious Craziness | by John O’Connor
Labor
HuffPost: These Workers Are In A ‘Fight For Their Lives’ Against Secondhand Smoke | by Dave Jamieson
AP: Florida House votes to loosen child labor laws a year after tougher immigrant employment law | by Brendan Farrington
It’s Nice That: One Year! Tracing the visual legacy of the miners’ strike | by Olivia Hingley
Jacobin: Why Foreign Carmakers Set Up Shop in the US South | by Luis Feliz Leon
Bloomberg: UAW Signs Up Majority of Workers at Volkswagen Plant After Detroit Wins | by Josh Eidelson
The Nation: The UAW Is Organizing the South | by John Nichols
Washington Post: The journalists killed in Gaza — and what they tried to show the world | by Ellen Francis, Artur Galocha and Joe Snell
Books
MACK: The Corporeal Life of Seafaring | by Laleh Khalili
Lenscratch: Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything | Linda Alterwitz
Dewi Lewis: Michael Kerstgens - The Enemy Within: The Miners’ Strike 1984/85
Podcast
The New Humanitarian: What’s Unsaid | 2024, another deadly migrant year | Eric Reidy
Headbanging Headlines:
Daily Mail: Trump claims he looks like ELVIS PRESLEY saying 'for many years people have been saying we look alike'
Other Stuff
A political rally greets their candidate a few miles outside of Lahore, Pakistan. Photo Robert Gumpert 1990
The Guardian: Republican congressmen are now talking about throwing migrants from helicopters | by Moustafa Bayoumi
Aeon: One ship, many stories | by Boyd Cothran, Adrian Shubert and edited by Sam Haselby
NY Times: Joe Manchin Would Like Your Attention, and He Is Not Alone | by Jamelle Bouie
NY Times: What Israeli Soldiers’ Videos Reveal: Cheering Destruction and Mocking Gazans | by Aric Toler, Sarah Kerr, Adam Sella, Arijeta Lajka and Chevaz Clarke
Nautilus: How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles | by Steve Nadis
Washington Post: Why scientists are starting to worry about the moon shrinking | by Kasha Patel
PetaPixel: Webb Can See Far Enough to Test Theories of Dark Matter | Jeremy Gray
Nautilus: What Physicists Have Been Missing | by Sabine Hossenfelder
El País: A dictatorship is born | by Carlos Dada
Dawn: Respect the mandate
DW: Pakistan election: Army chief urges end to ‘polarization’
CNN: Pakistan election: Imran Khan allies win most seats in shock results | by Sophia Saifi and David Shortell
Social Issues - 2024 US Elections
Safe guarding ballot boxes to prevent fraud by Marcos and his supporters. Marcos was eventually removed from office, and the country, by a coalition of the military and citizens. Manila, Philippines February 1986: Photo: Robert Gumpert 1986
The New Yorker: The Supreme Court and the Risks of January 6, 2025 | Jeannie Suk Gersen
The Nation: The Supreme Court Is Not Going to Save Us From Donald Trump | by Elie Mystal
TPM: Justices Aghast: Does A Single State Have The Power To DQ Trump? | by Josh Kovensky
LA Times: Why MAGA's temporary love of San Francisco should be permanent | by Erika D. Smith
The Atlantic: Trump Encourages Putin to Attack NATO Members | by Tom Nichols
Social Issues
Three women in a hostel for migrant men. Alexandra Township, Jo'burg South Africa. Photo Robert Gumpert 1991
The Guardian: We’re fast approaching the era of the trillionaire. What can we do to stop it? | by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Orion: Stealing Higher Ground: A Portrait of Rising Climate Gentrification | by Jill Tidman
ProPublica: Bused From Texas to Manhattan, an Immigrant Struggles to Find Shelter | by Seth Freed Wessler
Democracy Now: Former Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy: Only U.S. Pressure on Israel Can End Gaza Assault, Lead to Truce | by Daniel Levy
Democracy Now: Jeremy Scahill: Israel Has Waged a “Deliberate Propaganda Campaign” to Justify Brutal Gaza Assault | by Jeremy Scahill
JSTOR Daily: The Cost of Inflation in Prison | by Phillip Vance Smith, II
Washington Post: The journalists killed in Gaza — and what they tried to show the world | by Ellen Francis, Artur Galocha and Joe Snell
High Country News: Stolen Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system. Climate change is its legacy. | by Tristan Ahtone, Robert Lee, Amanda Tachine, An Garagiola, Audrianna Goodwin, Maria Parazo Rose and Clayton Aldern
Mountain State Spotlight: West Virginians warn against ‘Women’s Bill of Rights’ that contains no new rights for women | by Henry Culvyhouse
El País: Lyndsey Stonebridge, historian: ‘What’s new about the migrant crisis is the brutality of our response’ | by Rafa de Miguel
The Guardian: Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds | by Jonathan Watts
Division Street
Person sleeping rough on the ledge over the bay. San Francisco Embarcadero at Harrison. Photo Robert Gumpert 10 February 2024
In These Times: As Fentanyl Overdoses Soar, LA City Crews Toss State-Funded Narcan from Encampments | by Jack Ross
See more of my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis
“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
29 January - 04 February 2024
Six years on the street, KC, 47 years old, packs up his makeshift shelter during a rain that has lasted all night. 18th Street and San Bruno Avenue. San Francisco, California.
Photo Robert Gumpert 04 February 2024
Photography
The Columbia Chronicle: Museum of Contemporary Photography opens its first Native American exhibition | by Maya Swan-Sullivan
My Modern Met: Ernest Cole’s Lost American Photos From the 1960s and 1970s Published for the First Time | by Jessica Stewart
Lens Culture: Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part 2
PhMuseum: PhMuseum 2024 Photography Grant
BBC: Exhibition celebrates work of newspaper photographer | by Vanessa Pearce
The Diplomat: The Uyghurs: Kashgar Before the Catastrophe | by Robert Gerhardt
The New Yorker: What Garry Winogrand Saw in Color | by Vince Aletti
The Guardian: Resukuence and bravery in Ukraine: Photo/Brussels festival 2024 | by Fiona Shields
The Guardian: How war destroyed Gaza’s neighbourhoods – visual investigation | by Niels de Hoog, Antonio Voce, Elena Morresi, Manisha Ganguly and Ashley Kirk
Vanity Fair: As Wars Rage in the Middle East, Anti-war Photographer Don McCullin Discusses “How Futile Violence Is” | by Mark Edward Harris
Lenscratch: Ian Howorth: A Country Kind of Silence | by Joe Cuccio
Time: East Palestine, One Year After Train Derailment | Photographs and Reporting by Rebecca Liger for Time. Story by Alejandro de la Garza
The Atlantic: Lost Photographs of Black America - Photographs by Ernest Cole found in a Swedish Bank Vault | By Vann R. Newkirk II
BJP: Remembering Brian Griffin (1948-2024)
The Guardian: ‘People said it did in his career’: 33 pictures that defined British politicians | by Jonathan Freedland
Lensculture: I Feel Like a Fish - Photographs by Jaisingh Nageswaran | Essay by Marigold Warner
Culture, Art and Design
Store window at the corner of 15th Street and Henry Adams. The Design District, San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 02 February 2024
National Gallery of Art: Mark Rothko - Paintings on Paper
Artsy: 10 Must-See Museum Exhibitions in 2024 | by Annabel Keenan
NY Times: When the Right Ignores Its Sex Scandals | by David French
El País: ‘They preferred me naked and silent’: ‘Emmanuelle,’ the erotic milestone that makes people uncomfortable 50 years later | by Ianko López
The Elephant: (Satire) Coronavirus Outbreak out of Control in the US | by Nina Moore
El País: ‘I should not have written ‘A Clockwork Orange’’: How Anthony Burgess came to disown his own novel | by Jaime Lorite
Letterform Archive: “Typographic Jazz: The Monoprints of Jack Stauffacher” Runs January 27 – May 26, 2024 (San Francisco)
Artsy: Kathia St. Hilaire Challenges Colonial Narratives in Her Collaged Canvases | by Maxwell Rabb
Letterform Archive: “Typographic Jazz: The Monoprints of Jack Stauffacher” Runs January 27 – May 26, 2024
The Guardian: Mark Kermode on… director Steve McQueen, a boundary-pushing master | by Mark Kermode
Books
Photo-Eye: Mirror City - Photographs by Harry Culy | review by Blake Andrews
Photobook Journal: Joel Meyerowitz – A Question of Color | Review by Gerhard Clausing
MACK: This Train - Justine Kurland
Dewi Lewis: STRÖMHOLM - Christer Strömholm
Photobook Journal: Breathing Space: Iranian Women Photographers | review by Gerhard Clausing
Aperture: 13 Photobooks that Envision Black Lives and Artistic Visions
Podcast
The Ezra Klein Show: The Strongest Democratic Party That Any of Us Have Ever Seen | interview with Simon Rosenberg
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘Why Haven’t the Democrats Completely Cleaned the Republicans’ Clock?’
Headbanging Headlines:
Truthout: Teen Charged With Murder After Officer Had Heart Attack While Assaulting Him
Other Stuff
An orange in a puddle of rain water at an encampment on Vermont near 14th street. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 02 February 2024
The Guardian: ‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show | by Oliver Milman
London Review of Books: In the Shadow of Silicon Valley | by Rebecca Sonia
JoeblogsF1: F1 Says No to Andretti | by Joe Saward
The Guardian: Why are moths attracted to lights? Science may finally have an answer | by Ian Sample
Reuters: OpenAI's ChatGPT breaches privacy rules, says Italian watchdog
The Bitter Southerner: Activated | Words by Tom Lee - Photos by Brian Palmer
The Guardian: ‘Certainly intimidation’: Louisiana sues EPA for emails of journalists and ‘Cancer Alley’ residents | by Oliver Laughland for the Guardian and Delaney Nolan for the Intercept
Time: East Palestine, One Year After Train Derailment | Photographs and Reporting by Rebecca Liger for Time. Story by Alejandro de la Garza
Washington Post: East Palestine derailment: Industry lobbies against new safety laws | by Tony Romm
Ars Technica: Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead | by Ron Amadeo
Labor
Welder in a California central valley machine shop. Photo Robert Gumpert 2001
France24: AFP journalists rally for blocked Gaza colleagues
El País: The horrors experienced by Meta moderators: ‘I didn’t know what humans are capable of’ | by Josep Catà Figuls
Appalshop: (Youtube): UMWA 1970: A House Divided
Time: East Palestine, One Year After Train Derailment | Photographs and Reporting by Rebecca Liger for Time. Story by Alejandro de la Garza
The Guardian: ‘Certainly intimidation’: Louisiana sues EPA for emails of journalists and ‘Cancer Alley’ residents | by Oliver Laughland for the Guardian and Delaney Nolan for the Intercept
UN News: Gaza: UN rights experts condemn ‘killing and silencing’ of journalists
Social Issues
Homeless encampment below 280 and above the Silver Crest 24 hour cafe on Bayshore near Oakdale Ave. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 02 February 2024
The New Yorker: “Do I Have to Come Here Injured or Dead?” | by Jonathan Blitzer
The Guardian: A North Carolina PFAS factory claims its emissions fell by 99.99%. A Guardian test reveals otherwise | by Tom Perkins, photos Justin Cook
El País: Inside the Facebook profile of a migrant smuggler | by Elías Camhaji
Noēma: The Potent Pollution Of Noise | by Jeffrey Arlo Brown
Convergence: First They Came For the Immigrants | by Max Elbaum
TPM: Dissenters Decry ‘Judge-Driven’ Mistakes As 8th Circuit Declines To Hear Major Voting Case | by Kate Riga
Washington Post: Republicans now say it might be okay to ignore the Supreme Court | by Aaron Blake
Time: East Palestine, One Year After Train Derailment | Photographs and Reporting by Rebecca Liger for Time. Story by Alejandro de la Garza
NY Times: A City Built on Steel Tries to Reverse Its Decline | by /santul Neckar; Photographs Akilah Townsend
Texas Observer: Teen Birth Rate Up in Texas After End of Roe | Lise Olsen
Division Street
A living space built around a freeway support and using the elevated roadway as additional shelter from the current rainstorms. Alameda at Utah streets. San Francisco, California
Photo Robert Gumpert 02 February 2024
ProPublica: When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance | by Stephannie Stokes, WABE; Data analysis by Agnel Philip, ProPublica
Vice: Republicans Push To Legalize ‘Property Owners’ Killing Homeless People in Kentucky | by Roshan Abraham
See more of my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis
“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
22 January - 28 January 2024
An encampment area on 13th Street between Harrison and Bryant. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 22 January 2024
Photography
The Guardian: ‘I have nothing and everything’: America’s young travelers | by Mee-Lai Stone
National Gallery of Art: Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection
PhMuseum: Tips and Mistakes to Avoid When Applying to Photography Grants, Awards and Prizes
Blind: Rage Against the Machine: Tish Murtha’s Portrait of English Working Class | by Miss Rosen
Blind: Roger Mayne’s West London’s Working-Class | by Colin Pantall
The Leica Camera Blog: Marcio Pimenta - Finding Dawn
Aperture: How Gregory Halpern Found His Voice in Buffalo | Interviews by Brendan Embser
National Gallery of Art: Dorothea Lange: Seeing People
Magnum: Olay, the Debut Photobook by Emin Özmen
Monroe Gallery: The Movies
Eye: Overloading the page - A big survey of Dutch photobooks raises issues about visual editing and layout. | Critique by Rick Poynor
Archival Recordings 10: NOLA Field Trip + Recent Photography | by Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
NY Times: Evelyn Hofer’s Photos That Capture the Soul of 1960s Dublin | by Erica Ackerberg
CNN: J.K. Bruce Vanderpuije: The hidden icon of African photography | by Zoe Whitfield
NY Times: Unboxing Thousands of Photos of New York City in the ’70s and ’80s | by Corey Kilgannon
Culture, Art and Design
New Orleans, Louisiana. Photo Robert Gumpert 1972
The Guardian: Off the charts: how a Polynesian canoe inspired a renaissance in traditional seafaring | by Brianna Randall in San Diego
Dazed: We have entered the age of TikTok face | Text Günseli Yalcinkaya
Huck: An Oral History of The Village Voice | text Josh Jones, illustration Emma Balebela
Wallpaper*: A hundred years of Triennale posters documented in a new book | by Rosa Bertoli
Wallpaper: ‘Heaven ’N’ Earth’: Sayre Gomez blurs the reality and illusion of Los Angeles | by Finn Blythe
Metropolis: How Can We Rethink Architecture and Design Models? | by Verda Alexander
Aeon: The architectural style wars have started all over again | by Owen Hatherley, edited by Cameron Allan McKean
NOÉMA: A Single Small Map Is Enough For A Lifetime | by Alastair Humphreys
Dazed: Colours! Paris Fashion Week street style takes notes from Nicki Minaj | text Elliot Hoste
Dissent: Marvel Studios has managed to recruit fans into rooting not just for its superheroes, but for the company’s business plan. | by Sam Adler-Bell
Flashbak: At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994 - Peter Marshall shows us a part of East London once made up autonomous republics and led by the 'World Fuhrer’
The Nation: What Naomi Klein Taught Me About Aaron Rodgers | by Dave Zirin
Books
Conscientious: A new view of photography - a review of Collaboration — A Potential History of Photography; edited by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford, and Laura Wexler; photographs and texts by numerous authors
PhotoBook Journal: Magnum Magnum | review by Melanie Chapman
Huck: Jack Latham’s new photobook, Beggar’s Honey, is an unflinching look behind the curtain of the endless stream of content that dominates our lives. | text by Isaac Musk, photography Jack Latham
MACK: The Last Safe Abortion Carmen Winant (SPBH Editions)
Podcast
Points South: Episode 12: Points South Live: Otis Redding Foundation and Macon Music Revue
What the F-Stop: Life Through Photography: #18 Syd Shelton, a photographer and graphic designer
Headbanging Headlines:
The Guardian: Ohio senate overrides governor and blocks trans youth from receiving care
Mission Local: Sheriff will rehire ex-deputy behind SF jail ‘fight club’ scandal
Other Stuff
A sexworker and her arresting officer waiting in the overflow booking area of the jail. San Francisco, California.
Photo Robert Gumpert, from “Lost Promise: The Criminal Justice System 1994 - 1999
The Guardian: US single people under 50 having less sex since Roe overturned, study finds | by Carter Sherman
Washington Post: Most land hermit crab species now use plastic trash for shells | by Frances Vinall
NY Times: What Do You Call a Galaxy Without Stars? | by Dennis Overbuy
NY Times: Black Pastors Pressure Biden to Call for a Cease-Fire in Gaza | by Maya King
Labor
Delivery in Chinatown. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 2008
Washington Post: Teen jobs: More high schoolers are joining the labor force as part of a post-pandemic shift | by Abha Bhattarai and Lauren Kaori Gurley
The Guardian: Do you have text neck? How phones are affecting us physically | by Tik Root
Civil Eats: The Farmers Leaning On Each Other's Tools | The Farm Collective That’s Rebuilding the Rural Sharing Economy | by Gray Moran
Social Issues
Washington Post: ‘Doomsday Clock’ at 90 seconds to midnight amid nuclear and AI threats | by Adela Suliman
London Review of Books: The Case against Israel | by Selma Dabbagh
The Guardian: Alabama condemned for nitrogen gas execution: ‘They intended to torture him’ | by Sam Levine and Ed Pilkington
NY Times: Alabama Carries Out First U.S. Execution by Nitrogen | by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Abbie Van Soickle
The Jurist: Mengele-Like Logic Underpins Alabama’s Plan to Gas a Man to Death | by Stephen Cooper, edited by Ingrid Burke Friedman | JURIST Editorial Director
NY Times: The Campus Wars Aren’t About Gender … Are They? | by Kate Zernike
NY Times: Dobbs Overturned Much More Than Roe v. Wade | by
Division Street
Scene of an encampment fire, 13th Street and Bryant. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 22 January 2024
SF Chronicle: Tiny home progress stalled in San Francisco, despite clear advantages
NY Times: The Man in Room 117 | by Ellen Barry
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“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
15 January - 21 January 2024
Rolls of cable , PG&E facility yard on 18th Street near Harrisson. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 5 January 2024
Photography
Aperture: Nabil Harb Seeks Mystery and Community in Central Florida | by Michael Adno
Wallpaper: Marisol Mendez's ‘Madre’ unpicks the woven threads of Bolivian womanhood | by Sofia De La Cruz
Michel Lagarde: Construction d’une image
Polka: La Poésie et Le Romantisme de Deborah Turbeville, à L’Hommeur à Photo Elysée | par Dimitri Beck
Truth In Photography: Three Perspectives on South Africa: Lindokuhle Sobekwa; Mikhael Subotzky; Ernest Cole
Truth In Photography: Maxim Dondyuk - No More Deep Stories
Creative Boom: Unity and imagination: new exhibition sheds fresh light on the 1984-5 Miners' strike | by Tom May
Blind: How Riam Dundon Photographed Protest City | by Robert E. Gerhardt
Magnum: The Strange, The Surprising, and the Slightly Surreal - Alex Webb discusses the recently published re-edition of his 1998 rare artist book, Dislocations
Metal: Jake Green - Pie, Coffee and Cultural Reflections | words Jenny Daphne Pitsillides
Wrong Side of the Lens: A Series On Street Photographers
Phil Penman: Viewing Room
Aperture: The Inside Story of Josef Koudelka’s Groundbreaking Career | by Lesley A Martin
Wrong Side of the Lens (YouTube): A video on the late photographer Jill Freedmen
The Guardian: Flat caps and bowler hats: Neil Libbert's bygone Britain
Culture, Art and Design
Part of the wall of an unoccupied building on 38th Avenue, just off of Balboa. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 18 January 2024
LRB: Do Anything, Say Anything: On the New TV | by James Meek
Artsy: 5 Artist on Our Radar in January 2024
She Curates: An interview with Crystal Fischetti by Mollie E Barnes
She Curates: An interview with Manyaku Mashilo by Mollie E Barnes
Dezeen: All 10 regions that will make up Neom now revealed | by Tom Ravenscroft
LA Times: Art reportedly used to train Midjourney, causing stir among artists | by Carolina A. Miranda
Portside: The creator of "Fargo" explains why every season of his crime drama is about money, Republicans and the “American woman’s experience” | Kayla Cobb
Hackney Gazette: Hackney’s Holly Street Estate: The mile-long corridor that was ‘a bit like The Shining’ | by Emma Bartholomew
Artsy: After Downturns and Disruptions, San Francisco’s Art Scene Is Thriving | Max Blue
Creative Boom: Ben Zank questions social norms through hyper-staged performance art | by Tom May
Print: The Daily Heller: Them Russians Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore
Washington Post: How to be more photogenic and look good in any picture | by Chris Velazco
The Guardian: ‘Satirical resistance’: the magazine-maker who risked his life poking fun at the Nazis | by Charlie English
Podcast
Desert Island Disc: Greta Gerwig, writer and director
BBC Sounds Documentary: Ending homelessness the Finnish way
Outlook: Stories from a hospice: The people I carry with me
Points South: Searching for Viet-Cajun in New Orleans, Part 1 and Part 2
YouTube: The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack (1964) Stereo HQ Audio
Headbanging Headlines:
Fox News: Interview with Nikki Haley: "We've never been a racist country"
Other Stuff
Bryant Street at Beale Street, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 20 January 2024
The Observer: ‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths | by Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum
The Guardian: PR giant Edelman worked with Koch network, despite climate pledges | by Dharna Noor
The Wrap: Why Kevin Merida Left the Los Angeles Times After Meddling From Owner | by Sharon Waxman and Alexei Barrionuevo
LA Times: Spirit of optimism returns to San Francisco with AI boom | by Hannah Wiley
El País: Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Netanyahu built a coalition of messianic zealots and shameless opportunists’ | by Jesús Ruiz Mantilla
NY Times: New Utopian Enclave? Or a Testament to Inequality? | by Simon Romero and Jody Garcia. Photo by Daniele Volpe
Dezeen: The Line megacity "likely to pose a substantial risk to migratory species” | by Tom Ravenscroft
PBS News Hour: Billionaire backers of new California city reveal map and details of proposed development | by Janie Har, Associated Press
NY Times: Billionaires Wanted to Save the News Industry. They’re Losing a Fortune | by Benjamin Mullen and Katie Robertson
Labor
The Guardian: AI will affect 40% of jobs and probably worsen inequality, says IMF head | by Dan Milmo
The Nation: The New Labor Militancy of LA’s Hotel Workers | by Sasha Abramsky
LA Times: L.A. hotel strike: 28 hotels reached tentative deals with workers | by Shaun Hussain
Labor Notes: North Pole Elves Win Big with Escalating Strike | by Alexandra Bradbury
Social Issues:
Slate: Republican Officials Openly Insult Women Nearly Killed by Abortion Bans | by Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern
NY Times: ‘Gas-Station Heroin’ Sold as Dietary Supplement Alarms Health Officials | by Jan Hoffman
NY Times: ‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade | by Nicholas Confessore
LA Times: Column: You can fight city hall. Huntington Beach retirees are | by Steve Lopez
Washington Post: On Amazon, eBay and X, ChatGPT error messages give away AI writing | by Will Oremus
The Guardian: Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds | by Tom Perkins
Segregation by Design: Santa Monica: The Ebony Beach Club
Texas Observer: La Cordiloca Goes To Court | by Jason Buch
Washington Blade: Progressive states must become safe havens for LGBTQ adolescents | by Morgan Philbin
Social Issues - Supreme Court
Moving home and business during a “sweep” of an encampment on parking lot between Merlin and Oak Grove streets. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 17 March 2021
Rolling Stone: Supreme Court to Decide if States Can Prohibit Emergency Abortions | by Tessa Stuart
Talking Point Memo: In Ominous Sign, Supreme Court Takes Up Emergency Room Abortion Case | by Kate Riga
NY Times: Supreme Court to Hear Case Over Homelessness Rules in Oregon | by Abbie Fan Sickle
LA Times: The Supreme Court could help California criminalize homelessness | by Erwin Chemerinsky
The Nation: We Are Witnessing the Biggest Judicial Power Grab Since 1803 | by Elie Mystal
Division Street
Street medic, disabled firefighter and often unhoused Couper Orona doing “rounds” on Dore Street. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 6 July 2021
NY Times: ‘The Social Contract Has Been Completely Ruptured’: Ireland’s Housing Crisis | by Megan Specia
BBC Sounds Documentary: Ending homelessness the Finnish way
SF Chronicle: New data shows grim tally in San Francisco’s worst year for overdoses | by Maggie Angst
Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative: Toward Safety: Understanding Intimate Partner Violence and Homelessness
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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08 January - 14 January 2024
Miner works the coalface in a 29 inch seam. Harland County, Kentucky. Photo Robert Gumpert August 1974
Photography
Blind: Aimee McCrory’s Growing Old Together | by Millen Brown-Ewens
Lenscratch: Review Santa Fe: Jacob Wachal: Handumanan Sa Pamilya | by Daniel George
Lens Culture: Whispers | Photo by Yuanbo Chen, text by Magali Duzant
BJP: Portrait of Britain 2023
Waiting on a train, Grand Central Station. New York, NY. Photo Robert Gumpert 2006.
Coffee and Donuts: Grand Central Terminal, NYC, a little zine by Robert Gumpert
Edward Burtynsky: Projects - Photography and Saatchi Gallery Wed, Feb 14, 2024 Mon, May 6, 2024
Seunggu Kim: Better Days and Riverside
Sumin Lee: Works
Blind: Lux in Tenebris, an Intimate Immersion at Sea | by Vincent Jendly
Wallpaper: Paul Strand: an American enigma and his portrait of an Italian village | by Jessica Klingelfuss
Washington Post: Opinion | Ernest Cole gave us America from an exile’s perspective | by Raoul Peck
Joel Sternfield: Stranger Passing; The Trials in Washington; Nags Head; American Prospect
The Guardian: ‘The officer could have smashed her skull’: the 1984 miners’ strike in pictures | by Marigold Warner
Fraction: Simulacra by Moran Sachs
Culture, Art and Design
Two miners on the bus taking them from a miners’ camp to the mine. South Africa. Photo Robert Gumpert 1991
Washington Post: An antique dress held coded weather observations in a hidden pocket | by Erin Blakemore
Art Africa: SFMOMA announces major commission by artist Kara Walker
Wallpaper: Artist Ibrahim Mahama’s recipe for jollof rice | by Tf Chan
Washington Post: Opinion | What six words can teach us all about race and identity in America | by Michele Norris
Blind: J.M. Giordano - Fighting Gun Violence in Baltimore | by Robert E. Gerhardt
BJP: Women’s nipples are censored online while men’s are not, a state of control that has worrying repercussions for artists and marginalised groups | by Emma Sharpiro
Salon: Cracks on the road to Christian Dominion: Is the shadowy "City Elders" group collapsing? | by Frederick Clarkson
Print: The Daily Heller: The Countdown to D-Day 2024 | by Steven Heller
Frieze: Drawing Kinship with Ellen Gallagher’s Protean Practice | by Edna Bonhomme
Pew Research Center: About 1 in 10 restaurants in the U.S. serve Mexican food | by Regina Widjaya and Sono Shah
Aesthetica Magazine: Space, Rhythm & Light | Words: Chloe Elliott
Washington Post: A 1993 Octavia Butler novel imagined the world in 2024—accurately | by George Bass
Headbanging Headlines:
The Guardian: Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE
BBC: Rep Nancy Mace accusing Hunter Biden of "white privilege”. "I think that Hunter Biden should be arrested right here, right now, and go straight to jail. Our nation is founded on the rule of law and the premise that the law applies equally to everyone, no matter what your last name is.”
Washington Post: Dictionaries among books removed from shelves of Florida school district
Podcast
YouTube: Mouse filmed tidying up man's shed every night
Emergence Magazine: A Path Older Than Memory - An Interview with Paul Salopek by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee - 10 years into walking the migration pathway of early humans out of Africa
Books
The Eye of Photography: Dewi Lewis: Petra Bašnáková : Born of sand and sun
AnOther: This Book Is an Ambitious Survey of Sport on the African Continent | by Elodie Saint-Louis
Science
Aeon: Capturing the cosmos - When self-replicating craft bring life to the far Universe, a religious cult, not science, is likely to be the driving force | by Jay Olson, edited by Pam Weintraub
The Guardian: Moon’s resources could be ‘destroyed by thoughtless exploitation’, Nasa warned | by Robin McKie
Psych: How to think like a Bayesian | by Michael G Titelbaum
Nautilus: The Magic of the Blackboard | by Theo Zenous & Thomas W. Hodgkinson
Nautilus: A Wild Idea to Solve the Mysteries of Black Holes | by Paul M. Sutter
Labor
Left: Car painters at the NUMI plant in Fremont, California. The joint venture between GM and Toyota failed and the facility is now home to Elon Musk’s Tesla. Photo Robert Gumpert 2005. Right: A painter on the Golden Gate Bridge takes a break inside the structure. Photo Robert Gumpert 1983
London Freelance Org: Remembering journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war
The Guardian: Al Jazeera accuses Israel of targeted killing of two of its journalists in Gaza | by Ashifa Kassam and agencies
The Guardian: ‘A golden opportunity’: Port Talbot fights to keep its steelmaking tradition alive | by Rob Davies
Axios: UAW launching organizing campaign at Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama | by Nathan Bomey
Washington Post: Duolingo turns to AI, laying off some language app translators | by Gerrit De Vynck
Social Issues - Annals of the Super Rich
There’s a storm a coming. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 2023
Instagram: Earthlyeducation - Rutger Bergman
Washington Post: Axel Springer to review Business Insider story on Neri Oxman | by Will Sommer
ProPublica: Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank | by Justin Elliott, Patricia Callahan and James Bandler
Rolling Stone: America’s Ultra-Wealthy Held Trillions in Untaxed Profits in 2022 | by Nikki McCann Ramirez
NY Times: If You’re Hearing About the Border, Someone Is Trying to Scare You | by Megan K. Stack, Photos Mike Osborne
Dezeen: Neom reveals "upside-down skyscraper" inside Gulf of Aqaba mountain | by Cajsa Carlson (Editor’s Q: where do the workers live? And only accessible via an underwater tunnel, are they planning for when the “ultra-luxury” crowd needs bunkers to protect them from the people they have screwed over?)
Social Issues
NY Times: A ‘National and Global Maelstrom’ Is Pulling Us Under | by Thomas B. Edsall
SF Chronicle: S.F. investigates homeless shelter operator | by Maggie Angst
Time: Gaza and the End of Western Fantasy | by Bruno Maçães
Washington Post: How eco-friendly are laundry detergent sheets? | by Michael J. Coren
Pew Research Center: Tuning Out: Americans on the Edge of Politics | Illustrations by Christian Northeast. Design, production and web development by Alissa Scheller, Reem Nadeem and Chris Baronavski.
The Guardian: Mississippi quits child food program amid Republican ‘welfare state’ attack | by Gloria Oladipo
Division Street
The Guardian: The social housing secret: how Vienna became the world’s most livable city | by Philip Oltermann
NY Times: Can a Big Village Full of Tiny Homes Ease Homelessness in Austin? | by Lucy Tompkins, Photos Eli Durst
SF Chronicle: Limits on San Francisco's clearing of homeless encampments upheld by 9th Circuit | by Kevin Rector
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7 Days: 01 January - 07 January 2024
A “Mike’s Liberty Garden”, along the Calera Creek path in Pacific, was started by Pacifica resident Mike Mooney in response to the terrorist attacks on 9/11. He has maintained it ever since. As time passed more plots have appeared in tribute to loved ones. Pacifica, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 1 January 2024
Photography
SABC News: Legendary photographer Dr Peter Magubane passes away | by Hasina Gori
NY Times: Peter Magubane, 91, Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera, Is Dead | by Alan Cowell
Catchlight: 2023 in Pictures
Pulitzer Center: 2023 Year in Photos
Washington Post: The war in Gaza through a photographer’s eyes | by Loay Ayyoub
Blind: Documenting the UK Reggae Scene in the 1980s & 90s | by Miss Rosen
Lenscratch: The 2023 Lenscratch Staff Favorite Things | by Aline Smithson
National Portrait Gallery: Prize winners Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023
Blind: Saving Laura Rubin | by Elyssa Goodman
Interviews with Extraordinary People: From The Warhol Circle to Rural Mexico: An Interview with Photographer Laura Rubin
BJP: An-My Lê’s war and peace | by Ravi Ghosh
Aperture: Sam Contis Asks What It Means to Move through the Landscape | by Daisy Hildyard
Elaine Ling Photography: Portfolios (Florida, Nomadic Mongolia, and others)
It’s Nice That: Chris Hoare photographs the fissure between Bristol’s centre and its forgotten fringes | by Olivia Hingley
Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California: Working Coachella: Images of the farmworker community of the Coachella Valley Photographs by David Bacon - Exhibit opening 11 January
Field of View: The Final, Decisive Moment - A partial photographic history of executions. | by Patrick Witty
Leica-camera Blog: Gruzja - Polish photojournalist Tytus Grodzicki AnOther: Jason Koxvold’s - These Before and After Photos Show the Effects of War on Soldiers | by Finn Blythe
Dazed: 10 photography exhibitions you can’t miss in 2024 | text Alex Merola
BBC: 'I can remember photographing Kylie but not what I did this morning’ | by Vanessa Pearce. Photos: Jason Scott Tilley
Culture, Art and Design
The Giro: Why New Year’s Day was no holiday for Black people during slavery | by Megan Sims
She Curates: Helen Downie - Unskilledworker | interviewed by Mollie E Barnes
Print: Jessica Brilli’s Paintings Explore Nostalgia by Reimagining Found Photographs | by Charlotte Beach
Hyperallergic: Tenement Museum Opens First Exhibition About Black New Yorkers | by Elaine Velie
The Guardian: Cleveland in the Super Bowl and Gabby Douglas gold: our bold sports predictions for 2024 | by Gabriel Baumgaertner, Tumaini Carayol, Oliver Connolly, Bryan Armen Graham, Andrew Lawrence, Nicholas Levine and Jacob Uitti
She Curates: Rowena Harris | interviewed by Mollie E Barnes
Print: Volker Hermes Remixes History with Tongue-in-Cheek Photo Collage Portraits | by Charlotte Beach
Colossal: Marvel at Tomohiro Okazaki’s Feature-Length Montage of Matches Performing Optical Tricks | by Kate Mothes
Print: Twelve Creative Voices to Follow in 2024
The Bluemoment: Dalston rhapsodies | by Richard Williams
A “Mike’s Liberty Garden”, along the Calera Creek path in Pacific, was started by Pacifica resident Mike Mooney in response to the terrorist attacks on 9/11. He has maintained it ever since. As time passed more plots have appeared in tribute to loved ones. Pacifica, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 1 January 2024
Folk Art Museum: Walls Can Speak: Sites, Memorials, and Social Justice
The Decorative Arts Trust: Memory Vessels: Folk Art With a Compelling International Origin | by John-Duane Kingsley
Incorrect: Securing The Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture In America | by Stacy C. Hollander
Other Stuff
Warning of unstable ground. Devil's Slide Trail on the old section of Highway 1. With weather changes and an inherently unstable hillside a tunnel was built after years of slides would regularly close the road causing massive delays, sometimes taking weeks to clear. South of Pacifica Photo Robert Gumpert 29 December 2023
Mother Jones: Why Is the Colorado River Running Dry? | by Scott Barrier
TNR: Fox News has never been more nakedly partisan. Can Biden fend off the network as he battles Trump for reelection? | by Nina Burleigh
Washington Post: 9 ways to identify ultra-processed foods | by Anahad O’Connor
Washington Post: Opinion - These politicians denied democracy on Jan. 6. Now, they want your vote | by Steve Brodner
ABC27: Lawsuit seeks to remove Scott Perry from Pennsylvania ballot using 14th amendment | by George Stockburger
Control AI: Deepfake technology is out of control
Salon: Fear of MAGA "backlash" is no reason to let Donald Trump make an illegal run for president | by Amanda Marcotte
The Guardian: Big five oil companies to reward shareholders with record payouts | by Jillian Ambrose
The Guardian: What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies | George Monbiot
Labor
Striking Greyhound worker and son at a Long Beach, CA. rally for several striking unions. Photo Robert Gumpert 1983
ProPublica: A Train Took His Legs. KCS Railway Put the Blame on Him. | by Jessica Lussenhop and Topher Sanders
PetaPixel: Court Docs Reveal Midjourney Wanted to Copy the Style of These Photographers | by Matt Growcoot
Hyperallergic: Database of Artists Used to Train AI Leaks to the Public | Maya Pontone
Dazed: Here are all the artists Midjourney allegedly uses to train its AI | by Thom Waite
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Three years on, little justice for press assaulted on Jan. 6 | by Kirstin McCudden from Freedom of the Press Foundation
Civil Eats: Our Best Food and Farm Labor Reporting of 2023
Against the Current: “Talking Socialism” on the Job | by Garrett Brown
LA Times: Do people want to return to office? Most say they do | by Danna Maxwell
Business Insider: Meet your new landlord: Google | by James Rodriguez
Headbanging Headlines:
Fortune: Iowa governor says it’s ‘not sustainable’ to give $40 per month to kids from low-income families for food
The Guardian: US hedge fund manager Bill Ackman posts 4,000-word screed decrying ‘racism against white people’ after Gay’s departure
AP News: The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies
Podcast
BBC Sounds - The Documentary: The Vietnam War soundtrack | Beatriz De La Pava
WTF-Stop: #17 Ed Kashi
BBC - From Our Own Correspondent: Twenty years of change in China and more
A Small Voice - Conversations with Photographers: 221 - Richard Kalvar
Print: Revision Path: Matai Parr
Books
MACK: This Train - Justine Kurland
GOST: The Man I Left Behind - Larry Towell
MACK: I carry Her photo with Me - Lindokuhle Sobekwa
Dewi Lewis: The Beginnings of Eternity - Paddy Summerfield
Colossal: A Reissued Book Reveals Hundreds of Photos from Frida Kahlo’s Personal Collection | by Grace Ebert
Social Issues
ED nurse helps a patient. Highland Emergency ED, Oakland, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 2000
The Guardian: ‘Stakes are really high’: misinformation researcher changes tack for 2024 US election | by Rachel Leingang
SF Chronicle: Can AI solve San Francisco’s fentanyl crisis? Here’s what the chatbots say to do | by Gil Duran
PetaPixel: Cameras, Content Authenticity, and the Evolving Fight Against AI Images | by Jaron Schneider
The Guardian: Transatlantic slavery continued for years after 1867, historian finds | by Dalya Alberge
Philadelphia Inquirer: Measles in Philadelphia: Six cases confirmed | by Abraham Gutman
NY Times: How a Drag Queen Event That Never Happened Forced a Library to Shut Down | by John Leland
Division Street
A woman living in the Columbus Ave apartment house in San Francisco’s Chinatown. She had lived there for 50 years and was facing eviction so City College could build a new downtown campus. With the help of the Asian Law Caucus and others residential tenants pooled a total $210,000 in equity to buy into the property alongside $300,000 from the Asian Law Caucus to occupy the ground floor commercial space. The remainder of the $7.6 million total project cost came via loans from numerous sources, including The City. Photo Robert Gumpert 1999 More at SFGATE
LA Times: How problems at two of Skid Row’s largest landlords could make L.A.'s homelessness crisis worse | by Liam Dillon, Doug Smith
Chicago Sun-Times: When college students have no home, it’s up to their schools to step up | by Cheyenne Garcia
The Guardian: Americans living in their cars are finding refuge in ‘safe parking lots’ | by Rick Paulas
LV Review Journal: Wall Street-backed company buys 264 Las Vegas homes for $98M in a day | by Patrick Blennerhassett and Jimmy Romo
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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7 Days: 25 December - 31 December 2023
Immigrant rights demonstration in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 10 April 2006
Photography
Devil's Slide Trail along the old Highway 1, a bit south of Pacifica, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 29 December 2023
Field of View: The Prisoners of Wars - Photographs as evidence; photographs as propaganda. | by Patrick Witty
Bloomberg: Google Can’t Catch All the AI Images. Can You? | by Parmy Olson and Elaine He
NY Times: A.I. Is the Future of Photography. Does That Mean Photography Is Dead? | by Gideon Jacobs
AnOther: The Best Photos of 2023: Finding Comfort in Community | text Niki Colet
i-D: The best photo stories about subculture & style we published this year
i-D: The best photo stories about home & belonging we published this year
BJP: A year in words and images, from the best shows to the most vital photojournalism
Lenscratch: Jesse Rieser: Christmas In America: Happy Birthday, Jesus! | by Aline Smithson
Photolucida: 2023 Critical Mass Awards
LensCulture: 15 Most Popular Photo Stories from LensCulture in 2023
Magnum: The Photographers’ Selection: 2023 | Cristina de Middel curates
Photo Phnom Penh: Chen Chun-Lu
Conscientious: Was Ray a Laugh? | by Jörg M. Colberg
Aeon: An augmented-reality filter reveals the hidden movements all around us | video by Posy
The Guardian: The photographs that defined 2023 – and the stories behind them | by Sarah Gilbert and Emine Saner
Metal: Stan Squirewell - The Disc Jockey of History | words Zola Rowlatt
Culture, Art and Design
Waves crashing over the retaining wall at Rockaway Beach Avenue in Pacifica, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 29 December 2023
Slate: House Speaker Mike Johnson told a Christian nationalist event that God had prepared him to be Moses | by Molly Olmstead
New York Intelligencer: 26 Not-Fun Facts About Speaker Mike Johnson | by Margaret Hartmann and Matt Stieb
SF Chronicle: The guide who gives the smallest San Francisco tours loves the city | by Peter Hartlaub
McSweeney’s: We Wrote Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment, and We Damn Well Meant What We Said | by Veronica Kane
Hyperallergic: The Politics of the Lowrider | by Isabel Ling
JSTOR - Daily: When ranchers began reporting incidents of mutilated cattle, the ensuing panic fed both conspiracy theories and a growing cynicism about the government. | by Livia Gershon
Hyperallergic: The Creative Power of Mischief | by Emily Wilson
Flashbak: Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
thebluemoment: 2023: The best bits | by Richard Williams
NY Times: 2023: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics
JSTOR - Daily: Free Wheeling: Shopping Carts and Culture | by Katrina Gulliver
Metal: Andalusia Corrigan - From Clay We Are, and Into Clay We Shall Become | words Jesús Nebreda, photographer Chloe Horseman
Podcast
Immigrant rights demonstration in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 10 April 2006
Points South: Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen | producer Sara A. Lewis
Points South: The Counternarrative | producer Sara A. Lewis
10 FPS: Episode 87: Rian Dundon (Documentary Photography)
Books
Wired: Our Favorite Photography Books of 2023
LA Taco: The 37 Best Books About Los Angeles Culture (and Beyond) Published In 2023 | by Mike Sonksen
Metropolis: David Gissen on Constructing an Architecture of Disability | by Jaxson Leilah Stone
Print: “AFROSPORT – The Book” Explores the Global Impact of African Sports | by Charlotte Beach
Headbanging Headlines
Huffpost: Trump Camp Kicks Up A Stink Over Adam Kinzinger's Claim Ex-President Smells
The Cut: Kim Kardashian Filled Her Tub With Hot Cocoa for Christmas
The Guardian: Ohio grand jury to decide whether to charge woman who miscarried for ‘abuse of a corpse’
Hindustan Times: Donald Trump's Christmas wish, 'May they rot in Hell'
Other Stuff
The Dial: The American Origins of Israel’s Armament Campaign | by Rafi Reznik
El País: Dearborn: The Arab heart of the United States is abandoning Biden over the war on Gaza | by Macarena Vidal Liy
Prospect: All that remains | by Avi Shlaim
New York Review: The Long War on Gaza | by Sara Roy
Economy
El País: US military operation in the Red Sea sparks tensions between Madrid and Washington | by Miguel Gonazález
Metropolis: Pittsburgh’s Mill 19 Is a Postindustrial Innovation Hu | by Justin R. Wolf
Japan Times: China's BYD set to overtake Tesla as world’s most popular EV maker | by Danny Lee
Aeon: A silken web | by Peter Frankopan, Marie-Louise Nosch, Feng Zhao. Edited by: Sam Haselby
Labor
A SE Asian immigrant family in their Tenderloin District SRO (Single Room Occupancy). San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 1987
USA Today: Why This Ironworker Encourages Other Women to Take Up Skilled Trades |
Committee to Protect Journalists: Israel- Gaza War
Bloomberg: Google Can’t Catch All the AI Images. Can You? | by Parmy Olson and Elaine He
SF Chronicle: Pizza Hut franchises in California lay off all delivery drivers
Nautilus: A Day in the Life of a Fossil Preparator | by Caitlin Donahue Wylie
NY Times: They’re Paid Billions to Root Out Child Labor in the U.S., Why Do They Fail? | by Hannah Dreier
NY Times: Where Migrant Children Are Living, and Often Working, in the U.S. | by By Eli Murray, Hannah Dreier and K.K. Rebecca Lai
Metal: SAG-AFTRA - Changing More Positions Than One | Words Sabrina Roman
Social Issues
Children working the Smoking Mountain trash heep where an army of refuge collectors live and make their living. Manila, Philippines. Photo Robert Gumpert February 1986
Devil's Slide Trail along the old Highway 1, a bit south of Pacifica, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 29 December 2023
NY Times: The Unsettling Truth at the Heart of the Giuliani Case | by Andy Kroll
The Guardian: Ohio grand jury to decide whether to charge woman who miscarried for ‘abuse of a corpse’
Washington Post: Is climate change speeding up? Here’s what the science says. | by Chris Mooney and Shannon Osaka
Washington Post: How these homes in the hottest places keep cool without AC | by Philip Kennicott and Sima Diab
TPM: Republicans Launch Two-Pronged Attack Against Voting Rights Act | by Kate Riga
Division Street
Washington Post: Jury acquits homeless man accused of beating ex-San Francisco official | by David Ovalle
Moneywise: 50 is the age when many Californians experience homelessness for the first time. Why there’s a rise … | by Sabina Wex
The Guardian: England has ‘twice as many empty homes as families stuck in B&Bs’ | by Peter walker
SF Chronicle: Hundreds of S.F. housing units for the homeless still sit vacant despite reforms. Here's why | by Joaquin Palomino
Newsweek: Opinion: Study Veterans To Understand Rising Homelessness | by Tom Murphy and Kathyn Monet
PBS NewsHour: Chronic homelessness is at an all-time high. Here’s why it continues to climb | by Hannah Grabenstein
PBS: How a ‘perfect storm’ of issues is causing a sharp rise in homelessness | by John Yang; by Keisha Young
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7 Days 18 December - 24 December 2023
“Warning Neighborhood Watch” Regency Park area of Omaha, Nebraska. Photo Robert Gumpert 20 December 2014
Photography
John Vink: Cambodia, Sambok Chap
Blind: Brodbeck & de Barbuat: History of Photography Differently | by Sophie Bernard
Aperture: Aperture’s Must-Read Photography Features of 2023
AnOther: Matte, the Publication Spotlighting America’s Rising Photography Stars | by Violet Conroy
It’s Nice That: Review of the Year 2023: Top 25 Photography
Caitlin Chescoe: Belief & Truth, Inside the Freemasons
Blind: Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey | by Robert E. Gerhardt
Metal: Carlos Idun-Tawiah - Though the Lens of Hope | by Jenny Daphne Pitsillides
Document Scotland: Polo Mint City by Robbie Murrie
University of Birmingham: New exhibition shares art created in the UK’s Victorian prisons
BJP: Centre for British Photography seeks sustainable future after announcing London closure | by Diane Smyth
The Guardian: Amid Myanmar’s longest war, a people struggle to survive in the forest | Words and photographs by Matias Bercovich
Hyperallergic: Space Telescope Captures Radiant Close-Up of Uranus | by Elaine Veil
Lens Culture: Cultural Changes at the Coldest Place on Earth — A Photo Story from Yakutsk | Photographs by Alex Vasyliev - Essay by Marigold Warner
Blue Sky: Zaharia Cușnir - The Joy of Living
Blue Sky: Ada Trillo - La Caravana Del Diablo
Polka: Pierre Faure, Lauréat du Prix Polka du Photographe de L’Année 2023 | par Alain Genestar
NY Times: 2023 in Photos | Credits: Curation: Tanner Curtis, Jeffrey Henson Scales - Interviews: Dionne Searcey - Digital Design: Sean Catangui, Matt Ruby - Print Design: Mary Jane Callister, Felicia Vasquez - Production: Peter Blair, Eric Dyer, Natasha King, Wendy Lu, Jessica Schnall, Hannah Wulkan - Additional Production: Justin Baek - NY Times Director of Photography: Meaghan Looram
Culture, Art and Design
Great Salt Lake vista point, Utah. Photo Robert Gumpert November 30 November 2015
The Guardian: ‘I get to tell my story’: incarcerated journalists are making podcasts, going viral and winning awards | by Sam Levin
Rëșt ôf Wǒrld: Global gig worker slang, explained | by Zuha Siddiqui; Laís Martins; Lam Le; Kimberly Mutandiro
Washington Post: The Changing Face of America’s Favorite Sport: How race, politics, culture and money are shaping which kids abandon tackle football and which keep risking its toll. | by Dave Sheinin and Emily Giambalvo
Hyperallergic: The Wildest Art Stories of 2023 | by Valentina Di Liscia, Elaine Velie and Maya Pontone
Creative Boom: Peach Fuzz is Pantone's Colour of The Year for 2024, reflecting a need for kindness | by Katy Cowan
Design Boom: A look back at the developments of Saudi Arabia's futuristic NEOM project unveiled in 2023 | by Myrto Katsikopoulou
Design Boom: BIG's mindfulness city in bhutan envisions the world's first carbon-negative community | by Christina Petridou
The Bitter Southerner: The Best Stories of 2023
Artsy: The Artsy Vanguard 2023 - Artsy Editorial
Five Things Seen and Heard: Walking in a winter wonderland | Martin Colyer’s version
Creative Boom: Droga5 London's work for Royal Enfield leans into the glorious unpredictability of biking | by Tom May
Hyperallergic: New Show of Islamic Art Explores the Pleasure of Eating Together | by Matt Stromberg
The Guardian: A Republican commitment to inequality underscores Trump’s impunity | by Rebecca Solnit
Washington Post: Opinion - The Civil War history they didn’t want you to know | Howell Raines
It’s Nice That: Review of the Year 2023: Top 25 Features
Artsy: Why We’re Drawn to “Hysterical” Art | by Maxwell Rabb
Wallpaper: Designing Justice + Designing Spaces calls for radical reimagining in architecture | by Ellie Stathaki
The War Horse: She Stayed Quiet When Marines’ Wives Called Female Marines “Sluts.” Then She Met Joy | Liesel Kershul
Podcast
A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers: 220 - Year in Review 2023
Books
MACK: Ray's a Laugh (new edition) by Richard Billingham
MACK: Ray’s a Laugh: A Reader - Liz Jobey (ed.)
Metropolis: 2 Books for Your Winter Reading List - These must-read titles unpack the histories that shaped architecture and design today. | by Zach Mortice
MACK: The Corporeal Life of Seafaring | by Laleh Khalili
GOST: Thatcher’s Children | by Craig Easton
Other Stuff
Omaha, Nebraska. Photo Robert Gumpert 28 November 2015
The Guardian: BP halts oil and gas shipments through Red Sea after rebel attacks | by Alex Lawson
The NY Amsterdam News: Caricom mediators encouraged by Haiti talks | by Bert Wilkinson
Washington Post: Why reindeer eyes shine blue in the winter | by Allyson Chiu
Vanity Fair: Jack Smith May Have a Secret Weapon Against Donald Trump at the Supreme Court | by Christian Farias
Searchlight NM: Buried secrets, poisoned bodies - Why did a Truchas woman die with extraordinary amounts of plutonium in her body — and why was she illegally autopsied? For this reporter, the answers hit close to home. | by Alicia Inez Guzmán
LA Times: Copper thieves unplug 6th Street Bridge lights | by Salvador Hernandez
The Guardian: Why is Mark Zuckerberg building a private apocalypse bunker in Hawaii? | by Hamilton Nolan
Metropolis: What Architects and Designers Need to Know About Embodied Carbon
The Guardian: How the James Webb telescope is ‘set to find strange and bizarre worlds’ | by Robin McKie
Economy:
Poster for Silent Night, a John Woo Christmas action movie. Potrero Ave at 22nd, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 22 December 2023
Washington Post: From dropout to ‘king of the cannibals’: How Sam Altman took over Silicon Valley | by Elizabeth Dwoskin, Marc Fisher and Nitasha Tiku
DW: Red Sea attacks: How will global trade be affected? | by Nik Martin
BBC: India drone strike: Cargo ship attacked off Gujarat coast | by Phelan Chatterjee
Labor
ProPublica: Railroad Supervisors Go to Extremes to Hide Worker Injuries | by Topher Sanders, Dan Schwartz, Danelle Morton, Gabriel Sandoval and Jessica Lussenhop
Rëșt ôf Wǒrld: Vietnam’s taxi drivers fight app drivers, wear their uniforms to steal customers | by Lam Le
MACK: The Corporeal Life of Seafaring - Laleh Khalili
The Guardian: ‘It was too dangerous for white men’: the racist history of pearl diving in Australia | by Kelly Burke
Catalyst: John Womack - How Can Workers Organize Against Capital Today?’s | by Benjamin Y. Fong
Teen Vogue: Union-Friendly Gifts for the Pro-Labor Person in Your Life | by Kim Kelly
Social Issues
An unhoused encampment on San Bruno between Division and Alameda Street. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 01 August 2023
Shelter built from scrap with solar panel on Evans Ave near Rankin. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 23 June 2023
LA Times: The fight to move the Catholic Church in America to the right — and the little-known O.C. lawyer behind it | by Harriet Ryan
The Guardian: US archbishop secretly backed bid to free priest convicted of raping child | by Ramon Antonio
Washington Post: Deadline set for claims against Baltimore archdiocese for sexual abuse | by Michelle Boorstein
NY Times: Pope Francis Allows Priests to Bless Same-Sex Relationshiops | by Jason Horowitz
NY Times: With a Deadline Looming, the United Methodist Church Breaks Up - A quarter of the denomination’s churches have left, as the faith divides over L.G.B.T.Q. policies. | by Ruth Graham
LA Times: As border extremism goes mainstream, vigilante groups take a starring role | by Keegan Hamilton
Vanity Fair: Overturning Roe Has Been a Horror Show | by Molly Jong-Fast
Portside: A Progressive Democracy Movement To Defeat Fascism | by Thom Harmann
SF Chronicle: Nonprofits accuse S.F. firm of squeezing them out of historic building | by Laura Waxmann
LA Times: Man who spent nearly 50 years in prison is ruled innocent | by Ken Miller
Washington Post: Written in the Wood | by Sarah Kaplan, Bonnie Jo Mount, Emily Wright and Frank Hulley-Jones
Division Street
Shannen O'Brien, 34: "I've been on the street my whole life, 6 years in San Francisco. The city got a hold of me." 13th Street just east of South Van Ness in a tent owned by another person. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 05 March 2023
Streetsheet: Coalition on Homelessness et al vs. San Francisco: Lawyers Make the Case for Stopping Sweeps | by TJ Johnston
LA Times: Why homelessness looks different in Washington, D.C., than L.A. | by Noah Bierman, David G. Savage
Courthouse News Service: Federal judge blocks Berkeley from closing homeless encampment | by Michael Genaro
SF Public Press: 2023 Is San Francisco’s Deadliest Year on Record for Drug Overdoses | by Sylvie Sturm
Washington Post: Record homelessness comes as a decline in volunteers strains nonprofits | by Petula Dvorak
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7 Days: 11 December - 17 December 2023
Santa marks a residence driveway entrance on Cabrillo Hwy at 9th Street. Montara, California Photo Robert Gumpert 03 December 2023
Photography
Howard Greenberg Gallery: Frank Gohlke
Bloomberg: Scenes From an Arctic Circle Under Siege | by Liam Denning - photographs by Louie Palu
Blind: Andre D. Wagner’s Poetic Scenes of New York | by Miss Rosen
Lenscratch: Collective Week: Small Talk Collective | by Kassandra Eller
Aperture: How John Akomfrah’s Videos Tell a Story of Migration and Belonging | by Vanessa Peterson
Fraction: Shane Rocheleau Issue 172 Lakeside (2022)
Document: Eduard Sánchez Ribot makes magic of the mundane | text by Jayne O’Dwyer
Danish School of Media and Journalism: Sahl Abdelrahman has won first prize in Egypt Press Photo 2022
Blind: Death and Noisy as Life | by Ronan Guillou
Ronan Guillou: 1968 - 2022 Photographie
The Guardian: West Bank settler violence | by David Lombeida
The Leica Camera Blog: Legacy of a Luthier Transcends Musical Notes | photographer Lydia Ho
Huck: The World Through the Eyes of War Photographer Don McCullin | by Miss Rosen
Field of View: The Challenge of Walker Evans - Does consent kill authenticity in Street Photography? | by Patrick Witty
David Gillanders: website
The Image Center: Otherworldly: Deborah Turbeville Photographs | curator: Denise Birkhofer
i-D: Merrick Morton spent two decades documenting the evolution of cholo culture, community, and style in East LA and South Central. | by Miss Rosen
Culture, Art and Design
BiP Kid-With-Gun Mural on Franklin Street and Oak. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 24 July 2023
NY Times: In Los Angeles, the ‘Coroner to the Stars’ Has the Last Word | by Corina Knoll
The Guardian: Groundbreaking graphic novel by Joe Sacco on Gaza rushed back into print 20 years on | by David Barnett
Aeon: What colour do you see? - hidden differences in how people experience the world | by Gary Lupyan, edited by Sam Dresser
The New Yorker: Watch This Space - The global ambitions of Invader’s street art | by Lauren Collins
Hyperallergic: What We Lose When Curating Follows the Money | by Olivia McEwan
The Guardian: Shock of the old: 11 murderous and macabre Victorian Christmas cards | by Emma Beddington. Pictures selected by Sarah Gilbert
NY Times: At Trump’s Fraud Trial, a Courtroom Artist With a Different View | by Zachary Small
The Guardian: ‘It felt like being stripped naked’: the prisoners confronting their crimes with art | by Elizabeth Fullerton
The Guardian: ‘We all get dressed for Bill’: the street photographer who captured New York’s sartorial spirit | by Maddie Thomas
Wendy Red Star: Work
NY Times: On the Texas Border, Folk Healers Bring Modern Touches to Their Ancient Practice | by Edgar Sandoval, Photos: Verónica Gabriella Cárdenas
BBC: Ncuti Gatwa: Doctor Who star on why he 'felt like alien' growing up | by Lizo Mzimba
NY Times: Defeating Trump Is Just a Start | by Janelle Bouie
Other Stuff
Surfing and fishing along the Great Highway at Vincente - at the sewerage pipe. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 14 December 2023
Reuters: Maersk to pause all container ship traffic through the Red Sea
The Loadstar: Maersk halts local ship movements following attack | by Alexander Whiteman
The Loadstar: Liner diversions and war-risk surcharges drive up costs for Asia-Europe shippers | by Mike Wackett
Washington Post: Two maps show why shipping firms are suspending routes in the Red Sea | by Laris Karklis
Reuters: Why the Indian Ocean could be China's Achilles' heel in a Taiwan war | by Greg Torode
El País: Return of The Beast, the train that mutilates migrants’ dreams | by Carmen Morán Breña
The Guardian: Revealed: the oldest black hole ever observed, dating to dawn of universe | by Hannah Devlin
PetaPixel: The Implications of AI Recreating Images From Our Mind is Frightening | by Matt Growcoot
Wallpaper: ‘The Irreplaceable Human’ at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark asks what creativity is in the age of AI | by Amah-Rose Abrams
McSweeney’s: We are Wirecutter, and last winter we sent 86 reporters to test 1500 artificial Christmas Trees. 12 haven’t returned. | by Chas Gillespie
YouTube: Archimedes and a Boat Lift: the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland
OneStep Power: What is the Falkirk Wheel? (video)
LA Times: Huntington Beach is sticking it to 'woke' California. Some residents ask at what cost | by Hannah Fry
El País: Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy: ‘There is a possibility that artificial intelligence will become conscious’ | by Verónica M. Garrido
Washington Post: This company was ordered to spend $2 billion on EV chargers. Many of them don’t work | by Shannon Osaka
NY Times: Israel Found the Hamas Money Machine Years Ago. Nobody Turned It Off. | by Jo Becker and Justine Scheck
When the Headline in Enough
Texas Observer: Texas GOP Rejects Ban on Association with Nazis and Extremists
PetaPixel: Venice Tourists Capsize Gondola After They Refuse to Stop Taking Selfies
BBC: Paris Ritz: Missing €750k ring found in hotel vacuum bag
SF Chronicle: S.F. DA Brooke Jenkins faces blowback after saying homeless people should be made ‘uncomfortable’
Podcast
Magnum Photos: Jim Goldberg - Coming and Going (video near bottom of the page
The Photowalk: Rachelle Steele - from the US Navy to professional photographer
Pictures on My Mind: London Documentary Photographer Claudia Leisinger: Interview - YouTube
Books
The Guardian: “A Republic of Scoundrels”: America’s original white men behaving badly | by Rich Tenorio
Blind: 10 Photo Books That Make Great Christmas Gifts | by Iris Mandret
LensCulture: Favorite Photobooks 2023
Labor
The Pickle Family Circus of San Francisco. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 1994
The New Yorker: The War in Gaza Has Been Deadly For Journalist | by Isaac Chotiner
El País: Reporters Without Borders denounces ‘unprecedented scale’ of journalist deaths in Gaza war | by Diego Stacey
Poynter: 5 local news experts on the best and worst of 2023 | by Kristen Hare
Dezeen: Australia bans engineered stone due to silicosis risk | by Rima Sabina Aouf
Labor Notes: Union Win at Bus Factory Electrifies Georgia | by Luis Feliz Leon
Social Issues
The foot of Rockaway Beach Avenue in Pacific. Pacific, a small town just south of San Francisco is facing massive issues related to global warming, rising sea temperatures and coast line erosion. Photo Robert Gumpert 06 December 2023
Texas Observer: Louise Culbertson: A Paris to Marfa March for Reproductive Rights |by Gayle Reaves
NY Times: Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Woman Who Sought Court-Approved Abortion | by J. David Goodman
ProPublica: Inside the Notorious Gun Shop Linked to Hundreds of Chicago Guns | by Vernal Coleman
LA Times: State regulators find mold, broken toilets, missing fire safety records in L.A. County jails | by Keri Blankinger
LA Times: He got off death row, now helps mentally ill inmates in L.A. | by Thomas Curwen, Photo Irfan Khan
LA Times: Opinion: Believe Trump when he vows media revenge. MAGA acolytes are already attacking | by Robin Abcarian
ProPublica: Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Now Work for Insurers, Deciding If They’ll Pay for Care | by Patrick Rucker, The Capitol Forum, and David Armstrong and Doris Burke, ProPublica
TPM: Supreme Court Lets Map That Two Courts Found To Violate Voting Rights Act Stand | by Kate Riga
NY Times: How the Israel-Hamas War Tore Apart Public Defenders in the Bronx | by Santa Nerjar and Jonah E. Bromwich
ProPublica: Idaho Keeps Some Psychiatric Patients in Prison, Ignoring Decades of Warnings About the Practice | by Audrey Dutton
NY Times: 48 Million Americans Live With Addiction. Here’s How to Get Them Help That Works. | by Jensen Interlandi; photos Damon Winter
Division Street
Exhausted Christmas display after a hard day’s night. Vincente Street in the Sunset District. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 14 December 2023
LA Times: SoCal housing crisis makes commutes worse for many | by Terry Castleman
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: 2023 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress
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7 Days: 04 December - 10 December 2023
Looking south along the Cabrillo Highway (CA 1) and Pacific coast south of the Devil's Bunker. On the Cabrillo Highway south of Pacifica and the Devil's Slide Tom Lantos Tunnels. Photo Robert Gumpert 06 December 2023
Photography
Howard Greenberg Gallery: Saul Leiter - Centennial
Blind: Mary Ellen Mark's Encounters | by Robert E. Gerhardt
Keith de Ellis Gallery: Simpson Kalisher (1926-2023)
Blind: Unleashing Storms | by Gaia Squarci
Field of View: The Most Photographed War in History | by Patrick Witty
The New Yorker: The Year in New Yorker Photography | by Sharuna Lyon
Lensculture: Announcing 38 Award-Winning Black & White Photographers!
BJP: Alicia Bruce - Profit, power and TV personalities: Photographing the community in conflict with Trump | by Philippa Kelly
Aperture: How Elliott Erwitt Found His Signature Humor and Joy | by Stuart Alexander
Blind: Rediscovering Deborah Turbeville | by Iris Mandret
Culture, Art and Design
Parking lot on Main Street. Half Moon Bay, about 29 miles south of San Francisco. California. Photo Robert Gumpert 02 December 2023
McSweeney’s: Post-dinner interview with a twelve-year-old who sat at the grown-ups’ table for the first time on Thanksgiving | by Nathaniel Brown
Washington Post: The political and demographic divides in kitchen-tool ownership, and more! | by Andrew Van Dam
Hyperallergic: How David Hockney’s Early Experiments Shaped His Iconic Style | by Rhea Nayyar
Hyperallergic: Artist’s Posters of Palestinians Killed by Israeli Strikes Emerge Across US | by Angella d’Avignon
Then There Was Us: Soft-love and tenderness with Charlee Moss | author Jonathan Tomlinson
Dissent: The Dominance of Platform Foods - Pizza, burgers, and tacos are not only delicious, they are essential to how capital shapes our lives. | by Arun Gupta
The Guardian: Revealed: how top pop stars are used to ‘launder the reputation’ of Koch family | by Geoff Dembicki
Other Stuff
A dry cleaners on Irving Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 06 December 2023
The Guardian: US police agencies took intelligence directly from IDF, leaked files show | by Jason Wilson
Texas Monthly: The Texas Historical Commission Removed Books on Slavery From Plantation Gift Shops | by Steven Monacelli
Quartz: The shift of manufacturing out of China is shaking up shipping | by Mary Hui
El País: Singapore’s top educationalist: ‘We are reducing homework. Play is part of learning’ | by Elisa Siló
SF Chronicle: As California’s redwoods recover from fire, astonishing fact emerges | by Julie Johnson
Labor
Server, and union member, at Julius' Castle on Telegraphy Hill opened sometime between 1924 and 1928 and was once a landmark eatery. Now only the building remains a landmark, the restaurant closed in 2007
The Nation: The New Labor Militancy of LA’s Hotel Workers | by Sasha Abramsky
Courthouse News Service: UAW says over 1,000 workers at VW plant in Tennessee have signed cards seeking union representation
Labor Notes: Inspired by Strike Wins, 1,000 Volkswagen Workers Sign Union Cards | by Luis Feliz Leon
Civil Eats: Diving—and Dying—for Red Gold: The Human Cost of Honduran Lobster | by Alice Driver
When the Headline in Enough
USA Today: Taylor Swift vs. MAGA? Trump toadies get mad and dumb over Time's new Person of the Year.
The Guardian: Lost in space no more: missing tomato found in space station after eight months
Podcast
Transom: “Reporting Out at the Edge”
A Small Voice: 219 - Leonard Pongo | by Ben Smith
WTF-STOP: #15 Patrick Ward | by Zak Waters
Books
Photobook Journal: Interesting Photobooks of 2023
1854 Photography: These are the most exciting photobooks out this winter
Social Issues
Washington D.C.: 500,00 march in protest to Donald Trump at the Women's March on the Mall. Photo Robert Gumpert 21 January 2017
The Guardian: Texas judge rules woman with non-viable pregnancy can have an abortion | by Susan Rinkunas
The Guardian: Texas attorney general says he will sue doctor who gives abortion to Kate Cox | by Ava Sasani
NPR: Texas Supreme Court pauses ruling allowing pregnant woman to have an abortion
The Guardian: San Francisco faces deadliest year for drug overdoses due to rise of fentanyl | by Erin McCormick
The War Horse: Short Changed: Military Women Face Assault, Harassment, Death. Is Culture to Blame? | by Kristen Davis
Division Street
Devil's Bunker, Cabrillo Highway (CA 1) just south of the Devil's Slide Tom Lantos Tunnels. South of Pacifica, California Photo Robert Gumpert 06 December 2023
SF Chronicle: The invisible population’: How SF is failing homeless families
Searchlight NM: From cars and couches to safe havens for the homeless | by Elise Kaplan
SF Chronicle: S.F. supervisor working to ban ‘dangerous’ landlords in the city | by Laura Waxmann
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