11 September - 24 October 2023
7 Days is back, if a bit shorter than usual
Both images Bricklane. London, England
Photos Robert Gumpert 18 September 2023
Photography
Magnum: Famous Faces From the Darkroom
The Leica Camera Blog: Portugal 1973 – 2023: A Work in Progress | by Alfredo Cunha
Hackney Museum: At Home in Hackney: A community photographed 1970s-today | curated I believe by: Jessica Goodison Burgess (Go see the show!)
The New Yorker: Friendship and Gender Rebellion in Nineties San Francisco | by Crispin Long
Thoughts of a Bohemian: Where have the archives of Sygma photographers gone?
The Guardian: Defying a decade of gun violence in Baltimore | words and images JM Giordano
Field of View: Patrick Witty - The Photographers in Hitler’s Bathtub
Huck: Celebrating the Art of the Photo Book | by Miss Rosen
The Guardian: Dennis Dinneen bar and photos - A pint and a portrait: the landlord who snapped small town legends | by Sean O’Hagan
The Guardian: Jim Mortram’s Small Town Inertia: portraits of a nation in need | by Anglia Square
The Guardian: Mavis CW - Shady moments: New York street life
NY Times: The Young Men of the Crick | Intro by Judith Freeman, Photos and text: Jim Mangan
Culture, Art and Design
Spitalfields Market. London, England. 18 September 2023
Photo: Robert Gumpert
Print: Life Doesn’t Come With GPS. Especially When You Need It Most | by Liz Gumbinner
LA Times: Neil Young and Crazy Horse turn back time at Roxy Theatre | by Michael Wood
Hackney Museum: What’s your Hackney story
Creative Boom: How to promote and build your creative business without using social media | by Katy Cowan
The Guardian: ‘Oldest wooden structure’ discovered on border of Zambia and Tanzania | by Ian Sample
Design Boom: japan’s oldest prison building set to reopen in 2026 as luxury hotel with adjoining museum | by Matthew Burgos
NY Times: Jango Edwards, Clown Who Challenged His Art Form, Dies at 73 | by Clay Risen
Washington Post: The racist incident that shook baseball nine years before integration | by Frederic J. Frommer
Other Stuff
El País: Medical ethics organization lodges complaint over monkey deaths in Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip trials
Washington Post: Perspective | How dream of air conditioning turned into dark future of climate change | by Philip Kennicott
BBC: Quobna Cugoano: London church honours Ghanaian-born freed slave and abolitionist
Huck: Why We Need A Right to Food | by Ian Bye MP
Labor
Lunch time, lower Manhattan, New York City. 14 September 2019
Photo Robert Gumpert
Podcast
Aeon Videos: Photographs offer a colonialist window to the past – one that must be challenged | by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, director: Brian Storm
Social Issues
JSTOR Daily: The Pan-American Highway and the Darién Gap | by Matthew Wills
SF Chronicle: He was the face of Red Power. The true story of his killing has never been told | by Jason Fagone and Julie Johnson
Division Street
Bishopsgate Road, across from Liverpool Station. London, England. 18 September 2023
Photo: Robert Gumpert
ProPublica: Massachusetts to Launch 90-Day Push to Fill Vacant State-Funded Apartments | by Todd Wallack, WBUR
See more of my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis
See more of my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis