05 February - 11 February 2024
The statue honoring SF Giant and Hall of Famer Willie Howard Mays, Jr. at Giant Stadium. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 07 February 2024
Photography
Peter Fetterman Gallery: Byung-Hun Min
Chavez Photo: An Uncertain End - Migrant Families at US - Mexico Border
Chavez Photo: Five Days - Georgia Russia War 2008
PetaPixel: Zuckerberg’s Going to Use Your Instagram Photos to Train His AI Machines | by Matt Growcoot
Greg Girard: Half The Surface of The World
BJP: Sebastián Bruno bids a long farewell to Wales | by Aaron Schuman
Mark Chapman: God's Promises Mean Everything - a photobook by Mark Chapman (a kickstarter campaign for the book to be published by Dewi Lewis)
PhMuseum: Temporary Homes | by Daria Svertilova
Milton Rogovin: Photography Series
Huck: Inside Life On Tijuana’s Garbage Dumps | text by Isaac Muk, photography by Jack Lueders-Booth
PennToday: Civil Rights photography at the Penn Libraries - Six Penn Art Collection images by photographer Bruce Davidson are on view through May 20 in a new ‘alcove’ gallery.
Blind: Photography at All Costs | by Benoit Dupuis-Tordjeman
Washington Post: These images delve into the psychology of conflict’s stress | perspective by Kenneth Dickerman
The Guardian: Photographer Sebastião Salgado at 80: ‘They say I was an aesthete of misery’ | by Andrei Netto
The New Yorker: Robert Cumming - The Pioneering Wizard of West Coast Photo-Conceptualism | by Chris Wiley
Aperture: Photographer Zhang Xiao’s Record of New Year Celebrations in Northern China | by Lisa Barbash
Metal: Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective - A Life (Not Only) in Grainy Black and White | words Víctor Moreno
Huxley-Parlour: Joel Myerowitz
NPR: Portraits from El Salvador's nearly 2-year, sprawling crackdown on gang suspects | by Carlos Barrera
The Guardian: ‘We all lost. That’s where hatred leads’: 10 years after her son was beheaded, Diane Foley on why she met one of his killers | by Emma Brockes
Culture, Art and Design
Danseur noble of the San Francisco Ballet. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 2004
Texas Observer: Abbott Appointee Slams Brakes on American Indian/Native Studies Course | by Josephine Lee
The Guardian: What a legendary historian tells us about the contempt for today’s working class | by Kenan Malik
Hyperallergic: How African-American Museums Are Navigating Book Bans | by Rhea Nayyar
It’s Nice That: One Year! Tracing the visual legacy of the miners’ strike | by Olivia Hingley
McSweeney’s: A Day in the Life of Taylor Swift, As Imagined by Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists | Jessica M. Goldstein
Washington Post: Inside the graffiti-covered L.A. skyscrapers that drew global attention | by Kelsey Ables
Artsy: Hans Ulrich Obrist Is Here to Save the Art of Handwriting | by Josie Thaddeus-Johns
High Country News: Still Dead A poem by Jill McDonough.
Oxford American: All Kinds of Mysterious Craziness | by John O’Connor
Labor
HuffPost: These Workers Are In A ‘Fight For Their Lives’ Against Secondhand Smoke | by Dave Jamieson
AP: Florida House votes to loosen child labor laws a year after tougher immigrant employment law | by Brendan Farrington
It’s Nice That: One Year! Tracing the visual legacy of the miners’ strike | by Olivia Hingley
Jacobin: Why Foreign Carmakers Set Up Shop in the US South | by Luis Feliz Leon
Bloomberg: UAW Signs Up Majority of Workers at Volkswagen Plant After Detroit Wins | by Josh Eidelson
The Nation: The UAW Is Organizing the South | by John Nichols
Washington Post: The journalists killed in Gaza — and what they tried to show the world | by Ellen Francis, Artur Galocha and Joe Snell
Books
MACK: The Corporeal Life of Seafaring | by Laleh Khalili
Lenscratch: Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything | Linda Alterwitz
Dewi Lewis: Michael Kerstgens - The Enemy Within: The Miners’ Strike 1984/85
Podcast
The New Humanitarian: What’s Unsaid | 2024, another deadly migrant year | Eric Reidy
Headbanging Headlines:
Daily Mail: Trump claims he looks like ELVIS PRESLEY saying 'for many years people have been saying we look alike'
Other Stuff
A political rally greets their candidate a few miles outside of Lahore, Pakistan. Photo Robert Gumpert 1990
The Guardian: Republican congressmen are now talking about throwing migrants from helicopters | by Moustafa Bayoumi
Aeon: One ship, many stories | by Boyd Cothran, Adrian Shubert and edited by Sam Haselby
NY Times: Joe Manchin Would Like Your Attention, and He Is Not Alone | by Jamelle Bouie
NY Times: What Israeli Soldiers’ Videos Reveal: Cheering Destruction and Mocking Gazans | by Aric Toler, Sarah Kerr, Adam Sella, Arijeta Lajka and Chevaz Clarke
Nautilus: How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles | by Steve Nadis
Washington Post: Why scientists are starting to worry about the moon shrinking | by Kasha Patel
PetaPixel: Webb Can See Far Enough to Test Theories of Dark Matter | Jeremy Gray
Nautilus: What Physicists Have Been Missing | by Sabine Hossenfelder
El País: A dictatorship is born | by Carlos Dada
Dawn: Respect the mandate
DW: Pakistan election: Army chief urges end to ‘polarization’
CNN: Pakistan election: Imran Khan allies win most seats in shock results | by Sophia Saifi and David Shortell
Social Issues - 2024 US Elections
Safe guarding ballot boxes to prevent fraud by Marcos and his supporters. Marcos was eventually removed from office, and the country, by a coalition of the military and citizens. Manila, Philippines February 1986: Photo: Robert Gumpert 1986
The New Yorker: The Supreme Court and the Risks of January 6, 2025 | Jeannie Suk Gersen
The Nation: The Supreme Court Is Not Going to Save Us From Donald Trump | by Elie Mystal
TPM: Justices Aghast: Does A Single State Have The Power To DQ Trump? | by Josh Kovensky
LA Times: Why MAGA's temporary love of San Francisco should be permanent | by Erika D. Smith
The Atlantic: Trump Encourages Putin to Attack NATO Members | by Tom Nichols
Social Issues
Three women in a hostel for migrant men. Alexandra Township, Jo'burg South Africa. Photo Robert Gumpert 1991
The Guardian: We’re fast approaching the era of the trillionaire. What can we do to stop it? | by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Orion: Stealing Higher Ground: A Portrait of Rising Climate Gentrification | by Jill Tidman
ProPublica: Bused From Texas to Manhattan, an Immigrant Struggles to Find Shelter | by Seth Freed Wessler
Democracy Now: Former Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy: Only U.S. Pressure on Israel Can End Gaza Assault, Lead to Truce | by Daniel Levy
Democracy Now: Jeremy Scahill: Israel Has Waged a “Deliberate Propaganda Campaign” to Justify Brutal Gaza Assault | by Jeremy Scahill
JSTOR Daily: The Cost of Inflation in Prison | by Phillip Vance Smith, II
Washington Post: The journalists killed in Gaza — and what they tried to show the world | by Ellen Francis, Artur Galocha and Joe Snell
High Country News: Stolen Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system. Climate change is its legacy. | by Tristan Ahtone, Robert Lee, Amanda Tachine, An Garagiola, Audrianna Goodwin, Maria Parazo Rose and Clayton Aldern
Mountain State Spotlight: West Virginians warn against ‘Women’s Bill of Rights’ that contains no new rights for women | by Henry Culvyhouse
El País: Lyndsey Stonebridge, historian: ‘What’s new about the migrant crisis is the brutality of our response’ | by Rafa de Miguel
The Guardian: Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds | by Jonathan Watts
Division Street
Person sleeping rough on the ledge over the bay. San Francisco Embarcadero at Harrison. Photo Robert Gumpert 10 February 2024
In These Times: As Fentanyl Overdoses Soar, LA City Crews Toss State-Funded Narcan from Encampments | by Jack Ross
See more of my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis
“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
