16 October - 22 October 2023
Napping on the Tube. London, England. Photo: Robert Gumpert 15 September 2023
Photography
The Guardian: Helsinki Photo Festival’s most popular projects
France24: Robert Doisneau, the wartime years: Paris show hails photographer’s ‘spirit of resistance’
Young Kim: She Traveled the World, Faced Every Danger and Hardship. Now, She is Home and at Peace.
Blind: The Invisible Man With a Camera in Hand - Ralph Ellison’s rarely-seen photographs offer a revelatory look into the mind of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century | by Miss Rosen
The Guardian: West Africa’s style icons … and the tiny studio that shot them - photos of Sanlé Sory
Field of View: The Elusive, Impossible, Iconic War Photo | by Patrick Witty
Blind: Shelby Lee Adams - The Forgotten People of Appalachia | by Robert E. Gerhardt
BJP: Behind the scenes of Moriyama’s London takeover | by Diane Smyth
The Eye of Photography: Centro Cultural de Cascais: Michael Grecco – Punk, Post Punk, New Wave: Onstage, Backstage, In Your Face
Blind: Théo Saffroy’s series “Les Reines du Ring” | by Iris Mandret
BJP: The Scottish photographer reflects on returning to a project she started in 1994 – photographing her sister and her children in impoverished Stirling
David Wright Photography: THE GOLDEN ARCHES McDONALD'S, USA
The Guardian: Polluted, violent and ablaze: the real Brazilian rainforest – in pictures | photos Tommaso Protti
The New Yorker: Tony Notarberardino - These People Used to Live Here? | by Naomi Fry
Stephen Daiter Gallery: NEWCOMERS / Related Work - Eva Konikoff and Sandra Weiner Document Early Life
Stephen Daiter Gallery: Wanderings: Forty Years of Photographs in the U.S. by Alex Webb
Hammer and Hope: “We don’t struggle for you, we struggle with you” - Socialist shack dwellers fight for land and housing in South Africa. | by Siyabonga Mbehebe, Waldemar Oliveira
NY Times: Elderly and Imprisoned: ‘I Don’t Count It as Living, Only Existing.’ | by Camilla Floyd, Photos: Joseph Rodriquez
Culture, Art and Design
A closed restaurant ongoing repurposing. Harrison at 18th Street. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 21 October 2023
Washington Post: Smithsonian releasing Robert ‘Mack’ McCormick’s blues collection | by Geoff Edgers
NY Times: Barnes & Noble Sets Itself Free | by Maureen O’Connor
The New Yorker: How Social Media Abdicated Responsibility for the News | by Kyle Chayka
Longreads: Fast Times on America’s Slowest Train | by Harrison Scott Key
Creative Boom: Raina Jia's colourful and quirky illustrations tell stories in unconventional ways | by Dom Carter
Designboom: MVRDV's pyramid of Tirana in pictures: inside Albania's newly-renovated brutalist landmark
Print: Is Meme-Ification of the News a Good or Bad Thing? | by Chloe Gordon
Print: The Daily Heller: Ib Antoni, the Danish Mad Man | by Steven Heller
Print: My Socks Have Stories to Tell | by Liz Gumbinner
Eye: Resistance is essential | by John L. Walters
Other Stuff
"Trust but verify" - building with sign promoting "Spread Love / Stop Hate" and CCTV and a burgler alarm. Folsom and 20th streets, San Francisco California, 21 October 2023
The Guardian: Drought turns Amazonian capital into climate dystopia - Forest fires leave Manaus with second worst air quality in the world, while low river levels cut off communities | by Jonathan Watts
The Guardian: Polluted, violent and ablaze: the real Brazilian rainforest – in pictures | photos Tommaso Protti
LA Times: Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate. Will anyone notice? | by David Lauter
NY Times: Some Israeli Journalists Express Fear About Conveying Dissenting Views
Psyche: When mindfulness meets capitalism, it loses its way | by Chris Wheatley, Edited: Sam Haselby
NY Times: OpenAI in Talks for Deal That Would Value Company at $80 Billion | by Cade Metz
NY Times: Ukraine, a Sniper Mission and the Myth of the ‘Good Kill’ | by Thomas Gibbons-Neff
NY Times: Silicon Valley Ditches News, Shaking an Unstable Industry | by Mike Isaac, Katie Robertson, and Nico Grant
Labor
Washington Post: Opinion What my grandmother taught me about the dignity of work | by Theodore R. Johnson
Quartz: Another group of Detroit workers is placing their bets on a strike - Casino workers at MGM Grand Detroit, MotorCity Casino, and Hollywood have walked out | by Ananya Bhattacharya
The Guardian: Train strikes in England could continue for six months after union vote - Backing of 90% of RMT members… | by Gwyn Topham
Washington Post: Ford factory is a cornerstone of Chicago’s South Side economy. UAW picketers worry what will happen if the plant doesn’t go electric. | by Jeanne Whalen
The Guardian: British Steel owner preparing to cut as many as 2,000 jobs, report says | by Sarah Butler
Podcast
The Rest is Politics: Palestine, Gaza, and Israel - an interview with Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK.
BBC In the Studio: Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf takes us behind the scenes of the making of Kandahar
Social Issues
Healthcare ad, bus Stop, Folsom near 18th. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 21 October 2023
The New Yorker: What Happened to San Francisco, Really? | by Nathan Heller
NY Times: Longer Commutes, Shorter Lives: The Costs of Not Investing in America | by David Leonhardt
JSTOR Daily: Urban Planning, Then and Now - Humans have been designing cities for millennia. California Forever is just the newest entry in a long list of planned communities around the world. | by Ashley Gardini
Longreads: Unknown Cost - Forty-three million Americans need substance addiction treatment, but only a tiny fraction receive it. We know why. | by Wilson M. Sims
Propublica: The GOP’s Secret to Protecting Gerrymandered Electoral Maps? Claim Privilege. | by Marilyn W. Thompson
404: ‘Verified’ OSINT Accounts Are Destroying the Israel-Palestine Information Ecosystem | by Emanuel Maiberg
Washington Post: Child labor violations soared in fiscal 2023 | by Lauren Kaori Gurley
Division Street
A makeshift dwelling. Folsom near 19th Street. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 21 October 2023
Washington Post: Is the ‘Sexy nomad calendar’ of homeless men exploitative or empowering? by Kyle Swenson
SF Public Press: SF ‘Failing’ on Housing as Overdose Solution, Health Expert Says | by Sylvie Sturm
Searchlight NM: Across New Mexico, low-income renters face leaks, heat, mold, roaches — and no recourse. | by Jeremiah O. Rhodes
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