09 October - 15 October 2023
Whiz Burgers. 60 years at 18th and S. Van Ness. San Francisco, California. In 1977 Robert Hillsborough and a friend were attacked after buying burgers by a group of young anti-gay men. Hillsborough was stabbed 15 times and died. The murder highlighted the violence facing the LGBT community. Days later the city's Pride celebration drew a record 300,000 people who marched to the front steps of City Hall and laid flowers. Photo: Robert Gumpert 15 October 2023
Photography
Toby Binder: Youth of Belfast; Youth of the UK
Laura Morton: Social Stage; Debutante
Lukas Kreibig: The Last Wolf Children; Heart of a Seal
The Guardian: Siena photo awards 2023 – winning images | by Matt Fidler
The Guardian: Sizzling hunks, street smash-ups and kabuki rebels: the dazzling photography of Daidō Moriyama | by Charlotte Jansen
The Guardian: Daniel Meadows’ Magical history tour: all aboard the bus around 1970s Britain
Robert Koch Gallery: Matt Black - The Central Valley and Mexico until 21 October 2023
Blind: Raymond Depardon and David Burnett: Chile’s Hopes and Tears | by Michaël Naulin
Bastuaan Woudt: Website
Blind: In Vienna, the Renters’ Utopia | by Luca Locatelli et Francesca Mari
Print: James and Karla Murray Preserve Old New York Storefronts Through Their Photographs | by Charlotte Beach
Design Boom: Greg Girard - Captures the West Coast as a vast departure lounge in a nostalgic time capsule of travels from the 1970s
Huck: Photographer James Clifford Kent on how ordinary Cubans are struggling to cope under with economic crisis, US sanctions, shortages, blackouts, inflation and emigration.
AnOther: Deborah Turbeville’s Haunting Photo Collages of Women | by Lydia Figes
The New Yorker: “Squid Fleet” Takes You Into the Opaque World of Chinese Fishing | Film by Ed Ou and Will N. Miller; Text by Ian Urbina
Huck: Photograph That Fought for Major Social & Political Change - The world of Dorothea Lange | by Miss Rosen
Blind: Facing Paz Errázuriz - A tribute to a committed Chilean woman and her daily struggle to shed light on those society has left behind… | by Brigitte Ollier
LFI: Oskar Barnack Award 2023 Winners - Kuba Kaminski -Szeptunki; Gianfranco Tripodo - Ceuta
Lens Culture: 2023 LensCulture Emerging Talent Award Winners
Then There Was Us: Being a Documentary Photographer – Roger Hutchings
Spill: Mixed media project by Felipe Jacome
Eyeshot: Rollo Holleins - To Water
Culture, Art and Design
Students on a historical tour of Brick Lane. London, England. Photo: Robert Gumpert 18 September 2023
The Guardian: Mark Steel: ‘I have cancer and it feels like there’s a leopard in my house’
LA Times: How L.A.’s bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices | by Dorany Pineda, photos: Genaro Molina
JSTOR Daily: Fruit and Veg: The Sexual Metaphors of the Renaissance | by Noor Anand Chawla
Aeon: Settler Colonialism | by Lachlan McNamee, edited by Sam Haselby
The San Francisco Standard: San Francisco Tech Bros Host Testosterone-Testing Parties—Is It Junk Science? | by Liz Lindqwister
El País: Testosterone parties: the latest Silicon Valley fad | by Miquel Echarri
Aperture: How Ghana Became a Homeland for the African Diaspora | by Anakwa Dwamena
Print: Meet the Librarian Spreading Library Love One TikTok at a Time | by Charlotte Beach
Print: My Favorite Things: How We Learn Complex Skills | by Tom Guarriello
Bitter Southerner: Margo Price’s Infamous Fried Green Tomatoes | words & recipe by Margo Price
Washington Post: The most influential crowdsourcing project happened long before Wikipedia | by Michael Dirda
Other Stuff
LA Times: Researchers map ancient tribal villages of Los Angeles | by Louis Sahagún, Sean Greene
Scientific American: Ancient Footprints Affirm People Lived in the Americas More Than 20,000 Years Ago | by Tom Metcalfe
El País: NASA finds signs of the ‘building blocks of life’ in sample brought back from Bennu asteroid | by Javier Salas
Convergence: End Israeli Apartheid to Give Peace a Chance | by Max Elbaum
Dawn: UN experts say Israel’s strikes on Gaza amount to ‘collective punishment’ | via AFP and Reuters
Washington Post: Scientists share theory of deceptively bright Webb telescope images | by Erin Blakemore
Labor
UAW member at the engine casting plant. Windsor, Canada. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1983
LA Times: Walgreens pharmacy staffers walk out across U.S., citing unsafe working conditions | by Summer Lin
404: Video Reveals Crucial Details of LAPD Ignoring Robbery to Catch Togetic in Pokémon Go | by Jason Koebler
Portside: UAW Makes the Brave New Economy a Lot More Worker-Friendly | by Harold Meyerson
The New Yorker: “Squid Fleet” Takes You Into the Opaque World of Chinese Fishing | Film by Ed Ou and Will N. Miller; Text by Ian Urbina
NY Times: The Washington Post to Cut 240 jobs | by Katie Robertson
Labor Notes: Auto Workers Escalate: Surprise Strike at Massive Kentucky Ford Truck Plant | by Keith Brower Brown
Books
Lenscratech: Atomic Reactions - Crystal Bennes - Klara and the Bomb | by Barbara Ciurej
DesignBoom: Romain Veillon captures abandoned places reclaimed by nature in the absence of humanity | Christina Petridou I designboom
Aperture: Announcing the 2023 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
Social Issues
Warning sign on the freeway off ramp at Mariposa. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 15 October 2023
ProPublica: Six Right-Wing Activists Filed 89,000 Georgia Voter Roll Challenges | by Doug Bock Clark, photography by Cheney Orr for ProPublica
Washington Post: The troubling relationship between your job and your odds of drug overdose | by Andrew Van Dam
The New Yorker: The Next Targets fir the Group that Overturned Roe | by David D. Kirkpatrick
ProPublica: We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority | by Andy Kroll, Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, illustrations by Nate Sweitzer for ProPublica
The New Yorker: “Squid Fleet” Takes You Into the Opaque World of Chinese Fishing | Film by Ed Ou and Will N. Miller; Text by Ian Urbina
El País: Víctor Díaz Caro, the ex-guerrilla who tried to assassinate Pinochet: ‘The tortures I went through are just workplace accidents’ | by Diego Stacey
The Borgen Project: A look at Sanya: Biggest slum in Tokyo
Dissent: Toward a Humane Left - To hold everyone’s humanity—that is the task of the hour. | by Joshua Leifer
NY Times: The Massacre in Israel and the Need for a Decent Left | by Michelle Goldberg
Division Street
LA Times: Almost 70, unemployed, worried about his health and living in his car | by Steve Lopez
SF Public Press: SF Homeless Hotline Staff Couldn't Reach Most Seeking Shelter | by Madison Alvarado
From “Division Street”, the book:
Robert Milazzo, 63. “Home is wherever I am. I don’t feel homeless. I feel like I don’t have a box to live in right now but I’m not homeless. We’re all at home. People tend to forget that.”
“You know homeless is not all that bad because it gives you perspective on a lot of things you can’t get any other way, like the good guys aren’t always the ones with the keys.”
“Having to pee every fucking 20 minutes out here on the street when they can arrest you for doing so has probably aged me more than anything. For an older man living out here that’s … people just don’t consider things happen when you’re aging. I can’t climb up out of the tent anymore, I have to roll over and pee in a bottle. Before the nights over I’ve peed 14 times. It’s just crazy to spend so much of my thinking time about stupid shit like that.”
“The fact that I have been out here so fucking long at this age, and with a terminal decease (HIV positive), it’s shameful. I think it speaks volumes about everything in our country. But hell, even through a fucking pandemic I’m still sitting here, I guess I’m supposed to be here.”
“I’m not worried about the pandemic, I don’t know why. Maybe because I’ve had AIDS as long as I have. But you know I use drugs sometimes and I guess something about the choice of drugs I was using for so many years, may have been harming me but also may have been
benefitting me somehow. There’s a big school of thought I hear about all that. I know when I used to get the first sign of a cold, I’d do a hit of speed and it would knock it out. I’m not advocating, I’m just saying that has been my experience.”
Photo and text from the book, “Division Street”. Photos: Robert Gumpert. Texts by the unhoused and found materials. Published by Dewi Lewis
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