Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week
13 July 2025
Los Angeles, California. Man on the bus doing crossword puzzles in the newspaper. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1978
Blooming artichoke. Photo: Robert Gumpert 29 June 2025
King oyster mushroom in a tea cup. Photo: Robert Gumpert 29 June 2025
Man outside the Legion of Honor. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 21 March 2025
The Reads
Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America? | Michael Tomasky/The New Republic
Inside the Dollar General Workers’ Fight for Safety and Fair Pay | Katie Jane Fernelius/Oxford American
When a call for help ends in gunfire | Joshua Bowling/Searchlight New Mexico
Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice/Online Only | n+1
Photography, Culture, Art
Ayda Gragossian shows us what’s beneath the surface of Los Angeles | DALIA AL-DUJAILI/BJP
Why Photographs Mean So Much to People in Prison | Derek LeCompte in Aperture and Prison Journalism Project
In the Streets with the Krewe of Mung Beans - Redefining the spirit of New Orleans | E. M. TRAN
Neon’s Red Glare and Signs Bursting in Air | Steven Heller/Print
Will Recent Institutional Failures Lead to New Successes? | Renny Pritikin/Square Cylinder
Koto and Tripadvisor reimagine travel branding through real stories and lived-in design | Abbey Bamford/Creative Boom
V8 Architects builds Rotterdam homes almost entirely from reused and recycled materials | Tom Ravenscroft/Dezeen
Visual Persuasion Hasn’t Changed Since 1961| Steven Heller/Print
USAID: The Human Cost of Trump’s Cuts | Magnum Photos
The 12 Photographers Vying to Win the 2025 Leica Oskar Barnack Award | Jeremy Gray/PetaPixel
Short Video
In California’s farmlands, immigrant workers share their stories of toil and hope | Director Andrés Lira/Aeon
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03 July 2025
16 June 2023: Patrick Riley and Amelia Mustain across from their RV on Selby, just south of Evans.
Patrick “Project” Riley and his dog were shot dead at 3:05 p.m. on Selby near Toland, the 23rd of December 2024.. While an arrest was made, the DA refused to bring the case to trial. Photographed on 2 July 2025, the RIP “Project” Rest in Peace”, marking where he and Amelia lived remains. Photos: Robert Gumpert
Blooming artichokes in a vase on a table. Photo: Robert Gumpert 29 June 2025
Landscaping. 20th Street and Pennsylvania. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 22 June 2025
Sleeping rough on Division Street and San Bruno. San Francisco, California. 23 June 2025
9th floor, the roof, of a parking garage on the border of the Tenderloin, Union Square and the theatre district. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 30 June 2025
The Reads
How Hotels, Once a Last Resort, Became New York’s Default Answer to Homelessness | Spencer Norris/New York Focus
Portland Said It Was Investing in Homeless People’s Safety. Deaths Have Quadrupled. | K. Rambo/Street Roots
Pro sports have long seemed like the closest thing we have to a true meritocracy. But maybe not anymore. | Jay Caspian Kang/The New Yorker
The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe is bridging Nevada’s healthcare gap | Kaleb Roedel/KUNR
Books
In the Heart of the Sea - The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex | Nathanial Philbrick/Penguin Press
Photography, Culture, Art
La Cité Oasis: an enchanting photographic journey through France's most innovative city | Tom May/Creative Boom
The Tour de France by France-Soir photographers | Roger Viollet
Việt Kiều — Documenting Vietnamese Diaspora Around the World | Photos Jess Tran; Eassay Marigold Warner/LensCulture
Photo-Projects | Abeer Khan
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