Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week
30 December 2024
The Photos
Parking lot at 16th and Potrero. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 26 December 2024
Encampment on a raining morning along San Francisco’s Embarcadero, across from the Ferry Building. While San Francisco has increased its “sweeps” of encampments over the last months of 2024, the City does not, has not, provided long term housing, or in many cases even a short term bed in a shelter. The sweeps have successfully forced the unhoused onto different streets and underground parking lots. Photo: Robert Gumpert 28 December 2024
Fallen palm frond, blown off in a storm, along San Francisco’s Embarcadero. Photo: Robert Gumpert 28 December 2024
Bus stop ad on Van Ness at Filbert. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 26 December 2024
Podcast
Mark Steel, comedian | Desert Island Discs
The Reads
‘Everything is so bad’: Argentina’s poor hit hard by Milei’s ‘chainsaw’ measures | Harriet Barber, Tom Phillips and Facundo Iglesia/The Guardian
How America Created the Enemy It Feared Most - The United States killed its own allies, sabotaging itself in a part of Afghanistan where it never needed to be. | Azam AhmedPhotographs by Bryan Denton/NY Times
Black Hole Jet Stumbles Into Something in the Dark | Lee Mohon/NASA
How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration - Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.” | BRIANNA NOFIL/Texas Observer
The Atlantic Editor-In-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg warns newsroom decay is how 'democracy decomposes’ | Oliver Darcy/Status
Might be a good time to buy the book
“Division Street” – Order from Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
18 December 2024
The Photos
Human beings are so passé. An ad for AI at 5th and Harrison. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 10 December 2024
Unhoused and sleeping rough after an overnight rain on the San Francisco Embarcadero. Photo: Robert Gumpert 07 December 2024
Wheat pasting on Clement Street, part of a narrative wall. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 15 December 2024
Clement Street store display. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 15 December 2024
Wheat pasted wall, 6th and Clement. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 15 December 2024
The Reads
Photography
“Ruins are not the past, but the future”: ‘Ruins’ exhibition of celebrated photographer Josef Koudelka opens in Prague | Radio Prague International
A Complete Guide to Photobooks to Buy for Christmas | Blind
Matt Black’s American Artifacts | Matt Black/Magnum (Includes a video)
At Autograph, an exhibition capturing the 1970s spirit of a flourishing Lagos | BJP/EMMA RUSSELL
246 - The Year In Review 2024 | A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
Arturo Soto: Border Documents | Right Eye Dominant
Culture
Racing’s Deadliest Day - How the 1955 Le Mans disaster changed motorsport forever | Darrell Hartman/ESSES
Decolonizing Design: Ukraine’s Fight for Visual Identity | El. Stern/Print
Society
Utilities build flow batteries big enough to oust coal, gas power plants | Nicolás Rivero and Emily Wright - Photos by Noriko Hayashi for The Washington Post
The Daily Heller: They All Came to Look for America | Print
Apocalypse When? - The fantasy of redemption in disaster films | Nicholas Russell/Orion
“Division Street” – Order from Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada