Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week
01 March 2026
Mauricio, 44 On the street off and on for 8 years, Back of Best Buy on Florida Street. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 20 March 2024. Part of the Division Street project. Book available from Dewi Lewis
Bulk loading, Manila docks. Phillippines. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1987
Butchers. Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1991
Apprentice Chef at a San Francisco hotel. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2002
ICE protest posting. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 28 February 2026
Artichoke. Photo: Robert Gumpert 14 February 2026
Readings and Listenings
Gasoline Starved California Is Turning To Fuel From the Bahamas - Will Kubzansky and Lucia Kassai - gCaptain
GIVE US ACCESS TO YOUR RING CAMERA AND MAYBE WE’LL FIND YOUR DOG - MADELINE GOETZ and WILL LAMPE - McSweeney’s
If You Don’t Read This, I’ll Kill The Dog - Steven Heller - Print
Artur Walther’s gift of 6500 photographs from predominantly Africa and Asia reimagines the role of lens-based art at the New York institution - Dalia Al-Dujaili - BJP
Found after the photographer's death at 99, Joyce Edwards' previously unseen portraits document the people who reclaimed abandoned homes and went on to create a rare social housing project that still survives today. - Katy Cowan - Creative Boom
The Daily Heller: Innocent Pastiche or Deliberate Signaling? - Steven Heller - Print
The Importance of Visual Literacy - Magnum
NYK Unveils Zero-Emission Pure Car and Truck Carrier Concept - Mike Schuler - gCaptain
Inside a Minneapolis Newspaper’s Coverage of the ICE Raids - Aperture
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16 February 2026
Disney Concert Hall, downtown Los Angeles, California Photo: Robert Gumpert 23 January 2026
Artichoke, vegetable Photo: Robert Gumpert 14 February 2026
Fern from the garden. Photo: Robert Gumpert 08 February 2026
The Last Bookstore in the Spring Arts Tower. 5th and Spring St. Los Angeles, California Photo: Robert Gumpert 23 January 2026
Hotel interior design, DTLA hotel. Fourth and Spring Street. Los Angeles, California Photo: Robert Gumpert 23 January 2026
Overlook plea. San Pedro, CA. near the Pt Fermin lighthouse at the foot of Gaffey Street. Photo: Robert Gumpert 20 January 2026
The Reads
Holsinger-Visions-of-Progress-catalog - Free catalog download. Makes clear the long term affects of failed reconstruction
Flipping the Switch on Democracy - Thoughts of a Bohemian
China Starts Sea Trials for Largest Electric Powered Containership - The Maritime Executive
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on the Offshore World - Lapham’s Quarterly
More Dark Tankers Arrive at India Scrapyards as Trade Expands - Weilun Soon - gCaptain
Top Ship Recycler GMS Says It Is In Talks to Buy Venezuela-Linked Ships Seized by US - Reuters
Kentucky’s Real People Radio - BBC podcast
Can Artists Help Shape American Cities Again - Zachary Small - NYT
Headlines for our times from Sunday NYT Opinion for 15 February 2026
“The Epstein Files Are an X-Ray of How Power Works”
“You and A.I., Alone Together
“We’re on the Voyage of the Damned”
“We Have to Face What ICE Has Done to Us”
“Worries Grow About How Fast A.I. Can Move”
“Why Did I Trust Bezos?”
“Trump Is Slapping His Name on Everything. It Won’t Last”
“Where Even Death Is Undocumented”
“To Increase Birthrates, Abolish Commutes”
“Will A.I. Companions Turn Every Man Into An Island?”
“Robots Are Hired When Migrants Are Deported”
“ICE Is on a Dark Path. Congress Must Act Now.”
“Hope for American Schooling, From Three Red States”