03 June - 09 June 2024
9 June 2024, San Francisco, CA.: Bus stop at for the drug Naloxone, used to counter act opioid overdoes. In San Francisco the drug is handed out to the unhoused and other communities where opioid use is high and has saved lives. Corner of North Point and Hyde in the heart of one of San Francisco's tourist districts. Photo: Robert Gumpert 9 June 2024
Photography
Arab Documentary Photography Program: Unearth | by Nada Harib
Amon Carter Museum of American Art: Moving Pictures - Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood
Leica Blog: Emanuele Scorcelletti has translated the search for his Italian roots into poetic compositions.
Théo Giacometti: Théo Giacometti portrays the Camargue and its inhabitants, who are having to come to terms with the transformation of the landscape.
Punkt: Never Do Normal Things! – Conversation with Bryan Adams | by Jana Rajcová
Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch 1978 - present
Saad Eltinay: Portfolio
The Guardian: How Cut Throat got his nickname – Wayne Hanson’s best photograph | Interview by Chris Broughton
Monovisions: Interview with Street photographer Keith Dannemiller
Polka: Omaha Beach: Le D-Day Dans L’Objectif Des Soldats Américains | by Alexandra Nawawi
Sitara Thalla Ambrosio: Long Term projects
Washington Post: Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’ is art canon. What about Todd Webb? | by Sebastian Smee
NY Times: Between the Offensives: Images From a Journey in Ukraine’s Borderland | Photographs by David GuttenfelderWritten by Peter Robins
It’s Nice That: Elena Heatherwick’s documentaries on the West Yorkshire rhubarb triangle will make your day | by Yaya Azariah Clarke
Culture, Art and Design
Tourists doing selfies at The Basilique du Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre. Paris, France. Photo: Robert Gumpert 29 April 2024
Wallpaper*: Frank Lloyd Wright, hailed among the 20th century's greatest architects, has left a rich legacy that inspires to this day; here, we invite you to dive into his world | by Ellie Stathaki
Washington Post: Why Restaurants are so loud and what we can do about it | by By Bishop Sand, Leslie Shapiro and William Neff, Photos by Béatrice de Géa
Lenscratch: Mournful Cuts: The Political Collages of Amanda Sotelo Silva | by Vicente Cayuela
Conscientious: The Meme Is the Message | by Jörg M. Colberg
Wallpaper*: ‘Humanity is always the centre of my practice': Alex Prager's new work blurs the line between reality and fiction
Hyperallergic: Musée d’Orsay Offers Two Guests a Free Night in Its Iconic Clock Room - The lucky winners will get to watch the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games from the Paris museum’s rooftop terrace | by Maya Pontone
Something Curated: Pork, Beans, and Duck Confit: A Guide to Cassoulet, Toulouse’s Famously Robust 700-Year-Old Stew | by Bartolomeo Sala
thebluemoment.com: Artistry in algorithm | by Richard Williams
Washington Post: Trump is aided by Americans’ complacency that the ‘good guys’ will win | by Max Boot
BJP: An audience with Mickalene Thomas | by Elisa Medde
She Curates: Ania Hobson
Washington Post: Why textiles are all the rage in the art world right now | by Sebastian Smee
Mojo: Dr John Interviewed: “Art Blakey pulled a gun on me…’” | by Michael Simmons
Metal: Lisa Jahovic - Bridging the Magical With the Absurd | Words Arnau Salvadó - Portrait Nacho Rivera
Ken Lum: Middelheim Museum, Antwerp Exhibition
Orion: Examining Authenticity: An Interview with Author Rachel Khong | by Sumanth Prabhake
Books
PhotoBook Journal: Robert Gumpert – Division Street | reviewed by Melanie Chapman
Bluecoat Press: Mike Abrahams’ This Was Then
Dewi Lewis: Burnthouse Lane | by Michelle Sank
Podcast
The Lever: The Lunch-Meat Mafia - An inside look at how a corrupt billionaire butcher family ended up controlling the country’s meat supply.
Outlook: The Hiroshima survivor who is still shouting for peace: Part 2
Business Daily: A special interview with World Bank boss Ajay Banga
Hardtalk: Mickey Bergman: What difference do hostage negotiators make?
Other Stuff
A petri dish containing methicillin resistant Staphlococcus aureus in the Department of Medicine, SF General Hospital lab. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 24 Jan. 2008
The New Yorker: The Workingman and the Company Store - Can a progressive campaign break the coal industry’s hold on West Virginia politics? | by Dan Kaufman
The New Republic: Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat | by Ken Silverstein
The Texas Tribune: How Ken Paxton is stretching the boundaries of consumer protection laws to pursue political targets | by Vianna Davila, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica
ProPublica: Trump Witnesses Have Received Financial Benefits From Trump Businesses, Campaign | by Robert Faturechi, Justin Elliott, Alex Mierjeski
Washington Post: I’m your new AI search assistant! I want you to eat glue and die. | by Alexandra Petri
NY Times: OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance | by Kevin Roose
Amsterdam News: Trump backers use AI images to suggest strong Black support | by Angelina Hicks and Dani Sanganeria
McSweeney’s: A Day In The Life of “Mister” Anthony Fauci, as Imagined by Marjorie Taylor Greene | by Caleb Coy
Ars Technica: Vaccines don’t cause autism, but the lie won’t die—in fact, it’s getting worse | by Beth Mole
Labor
Trauma Aware Journalism: A News Industry Toolkit
NY Times: The Floating Traffic Jam That Freaked Us All Out | by Peter S. Goodman
The Guardian: Nearly half of journalists covering climate crisis globally received threats for their work | by Nina Makhani
Social Issues
My great grandfather and grandfather, on mother’s side, perhaps taken in the free city of Danzig.
Scientific American: Removing Race from Tests for Lung Disease Could Benefit Millions of Black Americans | by Anil Oza
Searchlight New Mexico: Death threats. Harassment. Intimidation. For New Mexico women, a life in politics can bring all three. | by Susanna Space
Hammer and Hope: The Gaza Strip Has Been Destroyed. So Has Hope For a Fair Future For the Two Peoples. As a Jewish leftist born in Israel, I feel a profound sense of grief and defeat. | by Amir Hass
The Guardian: Why is a group of billionaires working to re-elect Trump? | by Robert Reich
LA Times: Inmate hung a noose. Jailers too busy watching ‘explicit video’ to intervene, inspectors say | by Keri Blakinger
The Guardian: ‘Racial resentment’ a factor in violence of 6 January 2021, study says | by Alice Herman
NY Times: Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War | by Sheera Frenkel
National Criminal Justice Association: 6,000 Baltimore Overdose Deaths In Six Years, Highest Ever In Major City
El País: Mexican women’s long journey to win political rights | by Carlos S. Maldonado
NY Times: A New Measure Shows C.E.O. Pay at Even More Astronomical Levels - Up to a pay ratio of: 3769 to 1 | by Jeff Sommer
Division Street
Marjory McDonald, 34. Unhoused off and on for about 6 years. Bryant near Alameda Street., San Francisco, California.
Has the city been leaving you alone? Not really. It depends on how it looks, where we, or I, stay at. Around company with tents they have to make sure it’s always like safe, or clean. To them, the DPW or the peoples that call it in, it depends on their status (idea) of clean.
Do they take your belongs? Sometimes they take our belongings. If we’re not there to claim it, yes they do (and we never get it back).
What do your belongings means to you? Well before they had sentimental value - there were the last things I had of certain family members - but now it doesn’t really mean that much than my life. I mean as long as I’m healthy and have what I have what I have for my basic needs, it’s perfectly fine. I can always get certain things back that got taken by DPW from certain types of organizations.
What are the complications of being a woman on the streets? It’s more complicated than a guy, of course. The famine side of the females where they get their, how you call you it, mother nature at times of the month.
[Safety], it’s a little bit more harder for a woman than a guy. Usually there’s people that would like gang up on the female if they’re alone, and try to run game, or push something, or try and steal your stuff. There’s now way of protecting yourself due to - males they’re going to fight back. They have that strength, that reaction in them, more than a female.
Do you have a pet? No. I don’t have a pet because I really can’t take care of my pet during this time out here. Or even get the resources or his needs.
Do you want a place and has the city offered? Yes. Sometimes they have (offered). It’s just at certain spots there was people that was the ones started bullying, or mocking me, or treating me wrong, so I had to leave those areas even if I told the managers. [she is talking here about shelters and “Navigation Centers”]
Would you take an SRO (single room occupancy)? Yes
Has one ever been offered? Once, but from leaving the Navigation Center during the time (lockdown). But after that, no.
On being homeless and surviving: Just try and keep to yourself, or make sure you can stay with your with your friends and “family” that actually got your back. Basically to help and obey your community, like clean up after yourself, be helpful. Not straight independent, or rude like. Work as a community, not against them.
PhotoBook Journal: Robert Gumpert – Division Street | by Melanie Chapman
Searchlight New Mexico: A standoff between the housed and the unhoused in Española | by Molly Montgomery
LA Times: Why California lawmakers are giving up a bid to repeal a nearly 75-year-old anti-public-housing measure | by Liam Dillon
NY Times: How an American Dream of Housing Became a Reality in Sweden | by Francesca MariPhotographs and Video by Amir Hamja
