08 April - 14 April 2024
Portraits from Compass Family Services open house to “showcase showcase our family services for the Week of the Young Child”. San Francisco, California. Photos Robert Gumpert 09 April 2024
Photography
Blind: Mikko Takkunen - The Brilliant Colors of Hong Kong’s Darkest Days | by Robert E. Gerhardt
Lenscratch: Karla Guerrero: Diario de Ausencias | by Daniel George
Lens Culture: Preview: The Photography Show by AIPAD 2024
BJP: For Akin James, global Britain is a community affair | by Diane Smyth
Aperture: The World Is Martin Parr’s Runway | by Alistair O’Neill
The Guardian: A WHO photographer in Gaza: ‘There’s just an overwhelming need for peace’ | by Peter Beaumont, photographs by Chris Black
The Rolling Stone: Palestian Photojournalists Document Gaza’s Carnage
Ciro Battiloro: Ciro Battiloro website
Monroe Gallery: 1964
The Guardian: Simon Phipps - Nuclear reactor or medieval castle? Brutal Welsh architecture
1000 Words: Craig Atkinson - Café Royal Books Exhibition | reviewed by David Moore
Lens Culture: Portrait Awards 2024
Aperture: Prasiit Sthapit’s photographs show how musicians—as both instigators and healers—influenced an insurrection that shook the country. | by Muna Gurung
Blind: Maria Sturm - You Don’t Look Native
BJP: Jung, Rothko, Tanning, Duchamp: Inside the mind of Nadav Kander | by Alice Zoo
One One Thousand: Rotan Switch | by Lisa McCord
NY Times: How a Vacant Lot Became Our Own Dirtbag Narnia | photographs and text by Jordan Baumgarten
The Guardian: ‘The surreal dislocation of the everyday’: how Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura captured the Troubles as never before | by Sean O’Hagan
Culture, Art and Design
Corner of 3rd Avenue and Irving Street. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 07 April 2024
PetaPixel: NYC Pays $17.5 Million For Forcing Women to Remove Hijabs for Mugshots | by Pesala Bandar
Aperture: Mariko Mori’s Anime-Inspired Critique of Gender in Japan | by Marigold Warner
The Guardian: Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath obituary | by Richard Williams
Wallpaper*: A new exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explores the role of product photography and advertising in shaping the visual language of modernism | by Zoe Whitfield
Wallpaper*: Morgan Plus Four remains a timeless and invigorating mode of transport | by Jonathan Bell
BBC: Percival Everett: Why I rewrote Huckleberry Finn to give slave Jim a voice | by Katie Razzall
McSweeney’s: Selected Negative Teaching Evaluations of Jesus Christ | by Amanda Lehr
The Guardian: Interest in working-class photography booms but barriers to industry remain | by Lanre Bakare
The Mail & Guardian: Africarise: SA jazz to the globe | by Gwen Ansell
The Guardian: Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry obituary | by Richard Williams
Hyperallegic: Incredibly Preserved Frescoes of Trojan War Figures Unearthed in Pompeii | by Rhea Nayyar
Aeon: Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy on how technology shapes our world | by Bryan Norton, edited by Cameron Allan McKean
Aeon: America fell for guns recently, and for reasons you will not guess | by | by Megan King, edited by Sam Haley
The Guardian: ‘Another layer of pigment needed adding to the canvas’: artist John Akomfrah on changing the narrative, from Windrush to colonialism | Time Adams interview by John Akomfrah
The New Yorker: The Hottest Restaurant in France Is An All-You-East Buffet | by Lauren Collins
Books
Dewi Lewis: Fragile by Paul Hart
Creative Boom: Photographer Janine Wiedel - Vulcan’s Forge photobook casts a new light on 1970s West Midlands industry | by Tom May
Podcast
The Food Chain: How to run a restaurant
Headbanging Headlines:
The Independent: Trump posts bizarre solar eclipse ad – with his head blocking out the sun, plunging US into darkness
NBC News: Texas attorney who poisoned pregnant wife with abortion medication sentenced to 180 days in jail
Other Stuff
NY Times: How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. | by Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson and Nico Grant
NY Times: Axios Sees A.I. Coming, and Shifts Its Strategy | by Katie Robertson
Labor
AL.com: Union president blasts Gov. Kay Ivey: Alabama auto ‘workers are fed up with getting screwed’ | by William Thornton
The Guardian: Shawn Fain, president of the UAW: ‘Workers realized they’ve been getting screwed for decades’ | interviewed by Jamie Kitman
Social Issues - 2024 Elections
Washington Post: Arizona’s abortion ruling threatens to upend 2024 races | by Maegan Vazquez and Mariana Alfaro
Fortune: The Trump donor whom Biden can’t fire is running the U.S. Postal Service directly into the ground—just what everyone warned about when he was confirmed during the pandemic | by Sydney Lake
The New Republic: Trump Finally Reveals It: Billionaires Get Tax Cuts, We Get Autocracy | by Greg Sargent
Social Issues
Sleeping rough on Mission and 3rd streets. Downtown San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 12 April 2024
NPR: Indigenous leaders want to protect whales from climate change | by Julie Depenbrock
SF Public Press: Overdose Deaths Swell Among SF’s Mayan Residents, Highlighting Urgent Need for Culturally Competent Drug Health Services | by Sylvie Sturm
Mother Jones: America’s 806 Billionaires Are Now Richer Than Half the Population Combined—a Lot Richer - They have 57 percent more wealth, all told, than 65 million US households | by Michael Mechanic
Texas Observer: Community members say the state transportation agency is violating its agreement with the feds to reduce the discriminatory impact of its plans to expand I-45. | by Josephine Lee
The Guardian: ‘A family used to live here’: The Spanish sticker rebellion battling tourist lets | by Ashifa Kassam
Division Street
Portraits from Compass Family Services open house to “showcase showcase our family services for the Week of the Young Child”. San Francisco, California. Photos Robert Gumpert 09 April 2024
Huck: In this excerpt from his new book ‘Against Landlords’, lawyer and campaigner Nick Bano sets out a road map to ending private landlordism
Cal Matters: California homelessness: Does private security pose danger? | by Lynn La
Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative: California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness
The Hill: Affordable housing is the solution to homelessness, not criminalization | by Margot Kushel and Gregg Colburn
LA Times: What I learned from covering California's homeless since 1980 | by Dale Maharidge
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