27 October 2024

Clement Street.  San Francisco, California.  Photo: Robert Gumpert 13 October 2024

Clement Street.  San Francisco, California.  Photo: Robert Gumpert 13 October 2024

Political postering on Clement Street.  San Francisco, California.  Photo: Robert Gumpert 13 October 2024

Political postering on Clement Street.  San Francisco, California.  Photo: Robert Gumpert 13 October 2024

Bus Stop ad and comment.  23rd Street and Vermont.  San Francisco, California.  Photo: Robert Gumpert 29 September 2024

Society - How Los Angeles Is Trying to Keep Homeless People Off the Streets - Jill Cowan/NYT

Society - Under a L.A. Freeway, a Psychiatric Rescue Mission - Ellen Barry & Photographs by Rachel Bujalski/NYT

Society/Culture/Healthcare - Mud Creek Clinic - Anne Lewis & Appalsop video

Photography - The Right to Congregate: A Review of “In Protest: Global Activism” at Chicago Center for Photojournalism - Susan Aurinko/NewCity Art

Photography - Book of the Month – Book of the Road by Daniel Meadows - Dalia Al-Dujaili/BJP

Issues - Undocumented Immigration: The Reality Behind Rising Concerns - Alama Campbell/the ground truth project

Tech/AI - Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers - Joseph Cox/404 Media

“Division Street” – Order from Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada

19 October 2024

For a number of reasons starting with coming from a union family, I have for most of my career worked in and around issues of labor, work, and the economy.

Many of these images were taken on assignment, or while on assignment for the mainstream press, most were shot for unions and the California Department of Industrial Relations.

I have always believed that there is a dignity to work, regardless of what the work is. That there can be a performance of the work in its grace and economy of action akin to dance.

Today I’ve posted a new “little zine”, 31 years of blue-collar workers portraits from around the United States.  It is also up with my other “little zines” in the Coffee and Donuts section.

Podcast - 241 - Agnieszka Sosnowska - A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers

Podcast - Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israel: “Felt Lied To” - Ezra Klein/The Ezra Klien Show

Photo - Reframing Histories | Aperture Conversations - Aperture

Photo - The right to a memory - Abdo Shanan

Society/Privacy - Hacked Robot Vacuums Across the U.S. Started Yelling Slurs - Tom Maxwell/Gizmota (Who Knows if it’s true, but …)

Economy - Led by Believers in the City’s Future, Detroit Is on the Rebound - Neal E. Boudette/NYT

“Division Street” – Order from Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada