08 January - 14 January 2024
Miner works the coalface in a 29 inch seam. Harland County, Kentucky. Photo Robert Gumpert August 1974
Photography
Blind: Aimee McCrory’s Growing Old Together | by Millen Brown-Ewens
Lenscratch: Review Santa Fe: Jacob Wachal: Handumanan Sa Pamilya | by Daniel George
Lens Culture: Whispers | Photo by Yuanbo Chen, text by Magali Duzant
BJP: Portrait of Britain 2023
Waiting on a train, Grand Central Station. New York, NY. Photo Robert Gumpert 2006.
Coffee and Donuts: Grand Central Terminal, NYC, a little zine by Robert Gumpert
Edward Burtynsky: Projects - Photography and Saatchi Gallery Wed, Feb 14, 2024 Mon, May 6, 2024
Seunggu Kim: Better Days and Riverside
Sumin Lee: Works
Blind: Lux in Tenebris, an Intimate Immersion at Sea | by Vincent Jendly
Wallpaper: Paul Strand: an American enigma and his portrait of an Italian village | by Jessica Klingelfuss
Washington Post: Opinion | Ernest Cole gave us America from an exile’s perspective | by Raoul Peck
Joel Sternfield: Stranger Passing; The Trials in Washington; Nags Head; American Prospect
The Guardian: ‘The officer could have smashed her skull’: the 1984 miners’ strike in pictures | by Marigold Warner
Fraction: Simulacra by Moran Sachs
Culture, Art and Design
Two miners on the bus taking them from a miners’ camp to the mine. South Africa. Photo Robert Gumpert 1991
Washington Post: An antique dress held coded weather observations in a hidden pocket | by Erin Blakemore
Art Africa: SFMOMA announces major commission by artist Kara Walker
Wallpaper: Artist Ibrahim Mahama’s recipe for jollof rice | by Tf Chan
Washington Post: Opinion | What six words can teach us all about race and identity in America | by Michele Norris
Blind: J.M. Giordano - Fighting Gun Violence in Baltimore | by Robert E. Gerhardt
BJP: Women’s nipples are censored online while men’s are not, a state of control that has worrying repercussions for artists and marginalised groups | by Emma Sharpiro
Salon: Cracks on the road to Christian Dominion: Is the shadowy "City Elders" group collapsing? | by Frederick Clarkson
Print: The Daily Heller: The Countdown to D-Day 2024 | by Steven Heller
Frieze: Drawing Kinship with Ellen Gallagher’s Protean Practice | by Edna Bonhomme
Pew Research Center: About 1 in 10 restaurants in the U.S. serve Mexican food | by Regina Widjaya and Sono Shah
Aesthetica Magazine: Space, Rhythm & Light | Words: Chloe Elliott
Washington Post: A 1993 Octavia Butler novel imagined the world in 2024—accurately | by George Bass
Headbanging Headlines:
The Guardian: Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE
BBC: Rep Nancy Mace accusing Hunter Biden of "white privilege”. "I think that Hunter Biden should be arrested right here, right now, and go straight to jail. Our nation is founded on the rule of law and the premise that the law applies equally to everyone, no matter what your last name is.”
Washington Post: Dictionaries among books removed from shelves of Florida school district
Podcast
YouTube: Mouse filmed tidying up man's shed every night
Emergence Magazine: A Path Older Than Memory - An Interview with Paul Salopek by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee - 10 years into walking the migration pathway of early humans out of Africa
Books
The Eye of Photography: Dewi Lewis: Petra Bašnáková : Born of sand and sun
AnOther: This Book Is an Ambitious Survey of Sport on the African Continent | by Elodie Saint-Louis
Science
Aeon: Capturing the cosmos - When self-replicating craft bring life to the far Universe, a religious cult, not science, is likely to be the driving force | by Jay Olson, edited by Pam Weintraub
The Guardian: Moon’s resources could be ‘destroyed by thoughtless exploitation’, Nasa warned | by Robin McKie
Psych: How to think like a Bayesian | by Michael G Titelbaum
Nautilus: The Magic of the Blackboard | by Theo Zenous & Thomas W. Hodgkinson
Nautilus: A Wild Idea to Solve the Mysteries of Black Holes | by Paul M. Sutter
Labor
Left: Car painters at the NUMI plant in Fremont, California. The joint venture between GM and Toyota failed and the facility is now home to Elon Musk’s Tesla. Photo Robert Gumpert 2005. Right: A painter on the Golden Gate Bridge takes a break inside the structure. Photo Robert Gumpert 1983
London Freelance Org: Remembering journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war
The Guardian: Al Jazeera accuses Israel of targeted killing of two of its journalists in Gaza | by Ashifa Kassam and agencies
The Guardian: ‘A golden opportunity’: Port Talbot fights to keep its steelmaking tradition alive | by Rob Davies
Axios: UAW launching organizing campaign at Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama | by Nathan Bomey
Washington Post: Duolingo turns to AI, laying off some language app translators | by Gerrit De Vynck
Social Issues - Annals of the Super Rich
There’s a storm a coming. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 2023
Instagram: Earthlyeducation - Rutger Bergman
Washington Post: Axel Springer to review Business Insider story on Neri Oxman | by Will Sommer
ProPublica: Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank | by Justin Elliott, Patricia Callahan and James Bandler
Rolling Stone: America’s Ultra-Wealthy Held Trillions in Untaxed Profits in 2022 | by Nikki McCann Ramirez
NY Times: If You’re Hearing About the Border, Someone Is Trying to Scare You | by Megan K. Stack, Photos Mike Osborne
Dezeen: Neom reveals "upside-down skyscraper" inside Gulf of Aqaba mountain | by Cajsa Carlson (Editor’s Q: where do the workers live? And only accessible via an underwater tunnel, are they planning for when the “ultra-luxury” crowd needs bunkers to protect them from the people they have screwed over?)
Social Issues
NY Times: A ‘National and Global Maelstrom’ Is Pulling Us Under | by Thomas B. Edsall
SF Chronicle: S.F. investigates homeless shelter operator | by Maggie Angst
Time: Gaza and the End of Western Fantasy | by Bruno Maçães
Washington Post: How eco-friendly are laundry detergent sheets? | by Michael J. Coren
Pew Research Center: Tuning Out: Americans on the Edge of Politics | Illustrations by Christian Northeast. Design, production and web development by Alissa Scheller, Reem Nadeem and Chris Baronavski.
The Guardian: Mississippi quits child food program amid Republican ‘welfare state’ attack | by Gloria Oladipo
Division Street
The Guardian: The social housing secret: how Vienna became the world’s most livable city | by Philip Oltermann
NY Times: Can a Big Village Full of Tiny Homes Ease Homelessness in Austin? | by Lucy Tompkins, Photos Eli Durst
SF Chronicle: Limits on San Francisco's clearing of homeless encampments upheld by 9th Circuit | by Kevin Rector
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