17 July - 23 July 2023

23 Jul

7 September 2019: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ 4: Dr. Charles Thompson.

Photography

The Guardian: Giles Duley - The One Armed Chef, Giles Duley: ‘Cooking was the way I found peace’ | by Tim Adams

Huck (from 2017): These photographers are challenging how we think about prison | by Pete Brook

The New Yorker: Erinn Springer’s “Dormant Season” pays tribute to a patch of prairie that her family has called home for generations. | by Casey Cep

Blind: Irving Penn: Master Portraitist Between Light and Shadow | by Nathalie Dassa

i-D: The Ghanaian publication tracing the landscape of contemporary African art | Jenna Mahale

i-D: Bruce Davidson photographed the most important moments of the 20th century | Miss Rosen

Polka: LES EXPOS ET FESTIVALS À NE PAS MANQUER CET ÉTÉ! | by Thaïs Jacquet

Lenscratch: Isolationism in Photography: Marcia Glover - The Air is Different | by Kassandra Eller

Lenscratch: Isolationism in Photography: Natalie Goulet: Identity Mapping

i-D: Photographing the complicated relationship between humans and nature | Millen Brown-Ewens

BJP: ‘We need to stop the bullshit’: Mathieu Asselin’s exhausted landscapes | by Alex Daniel

Washington Post: ‘The Transition State’: Looking at protest movements in five countries | by Kenneth Dickerman

Truth In Photography: Magnum photographers Olivia Arthur, Matt Black, Carolyn Drake, Moises Saman, Cristina García Rodero, Alex Webb, and Martin Parr have documented transgender identity across the world. Below are their different viewpoints that illuminate the lives of transgender people and LGBTQIA+ activism.

Truth In Photography: The Mercilessness of the Sea - Mikel Hørlyck interview and photographs

NY Times: Edward Kaprov’s wet-plate technique is producing some of the most memorable and timeless photographs of the war in Ukraine close up. | Carlotta Gall

The Guardian: The Scottish villagers who defied Donald Trump | by Sarah Gilbert

Aperture: The Quest to Protect the Father of Ivorian Photography | by Tiana Reid

Blind: The Portrait(s) Parade in Vichy

Magnum: Ian Berry - Water: Source of Life

Aperture: How Gina Osterloh’s Photographs Flirt with the Limits of Recognition | by Phoebe Chen

Aperture: An Artist’s Collages about Memory and Migration | by Amitava Kumar

Aperture: The Photographer Searching for Freedom in Palestine | by Will Matsuda

Culture, Art and Design

The Guardian: After the floods, the future looks bright: truck art in Pakistan | by Sanam Maher in Sindh and Liz Ford. Photographs by Zoral Khurram Naik

It’s Nice That: “Simple, perfect”: The 50 best book covers of 2022, according to AIGA | by Liz Gorny

Dezeen: Robots should be "good neighbours and good citizens" says Madeline Gannon | by Cajsa Carlson

It’s Nice That: Malaika Francique peers into her family photo album to inspire posters around Caribbean history | by Yaya Azariah Clarke

High Country News: Horse girls: The wild and fearless - An author reflects on an encounter in Wyoming’s Red Desert and motherhood. | by Nina McConigley

Print: Villains en Vogue: How Karl Lagerfeld’s Dark Origins Reveal the Influence of Fascism on Fashion | by Isabella Segalovich

Creative Boom: No Ones Likes Us: Jéròme Favre’s photographs that take a second look at Millwall football fans | by Tom May

Forbes: Seaweed As Art At The New Bedford Whaling Museum | by Alexandra Bregman

Washington Post: There’s a lot going on behind the curtain in this portrait by Titian | by

JSTOR Daily: Delts Don’t Lie - Renaissance artists routinely used men as models for their depictions of female subjects, yet only the musculatures of Michelangelo tell that story. | by Ellie Rose Mattoon

El País: Why Woody Guthrie’s guitar was a killer of fascists | by Fernando Navarro

Other Stuff

Longreads: The Greatest Hospitality Story Ever | by Adam Reiner

The New Yorker: Haiti Held Hostage | by Jon Lee Anderson

Huck: THE DEVASTATING IMPACT OF DONALD TRUMP’S SCOTTISH GOLF COURSES - Alicia Bruce photographs | by Isaac Muk

Time: How John Fetterman Came Out of the Darkness | by Molly Ball

The Japan Times: In Japan, plenty of inheritances, but no one to claim them | by Alex K.T. Martin

Psyche: What happens to the brain during consciousness-ending meditation? | by Shayla Love, edited by Christian Jarrett

Labor

The Nation: What Does It Take to Win a Strike? | reviewed by David Bacon

NY Times: ‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s Battle With A.I. | by Emma Goldberg

SF Chronicle: Anchor Brewing workers want to buy SF company to keep it open | by Michael Cabanatuan

The Hollywood Reporter: Anonymous Strike Diary: SAG Glams Up the Picket Line — “Chanting Even Came Back”

Civil Eats: Fishermen Want to Break up a Dungeness Crab Monopoly | by Ron Knox

Headbanging Headlines:

The Guardian: ‘Your heart races a bit’: US weather man threatened with death for mentioning climate crisis

Washington Post: The heat index reached 152 degrees in the Middle East — nearly at the limit for human survival

Haaretz: Israeli Antiquities Are Stranded at Trump's Florida Estate as Authorities Fail to Retrieve Them

Podcast

The Bitter Southerners: Episode 11: The Elusive Roots of Rosin Potatoes — Reading & Interview With Author Caroline Hatchett

Ezra Klein Show: What We Learned From the Deepest Look at Homelessness in Decades

Books

The Nation: What Does It Take to Win a Strike? | reviewed by David Bacon

Social Issues

NY Times: How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World | by Lauren Leatherby

NY Times: As Climate Shocks Multiply, Designers Seek Holy Grail: Disaster-Proof Homes | by Christopher Flavelle

Houston Chronicle: Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, records say | by Benjamin Wermund

The New Yorker: How Gretchen Whitmer Made Michigan a Democratic Stronghold | by Benjamin Wallace-Wells

LA Times: L.A. County courts to severely limit use of cash bail | by James Queally

ProPublica: (Co-published with High Country News) In Arizona Water Ruling, the Hopi Tribe Sees Limits on Its Future | by Umar Farooq

Talking Points Memo: Neo-Nazis Surged Into Central Florida And Found A Tough-Talking Sheriff Who’s Determined To Take Them Down | by Hunter Walker

ProPublica: How School Board Meetings Became Flashpoints for Anger and Chaos | by Nicole Carr and Lucas Waldron

NY Times: Survey of 30 U.S. Cities Shows Nearly 10 Percent Drop in Homicides in 2023 | by Tim Arango

Prospect Magazine: The alarming Americanisation of British prisons | by Bill Keller

Capital B: Black Mayor Sues Newbern, Alabama, Officials | by Aallyah Wright

The Independent: Australian travel firm awarded £1.6bn contract for asylum barges and accommodation | by Lizzie Dearden

SF Public Press: Military-Style Drug War in Tenderloin Sparks Overdose Fears | by Sylvie Sturm

Take a Picture, Tell a Story:

For the next couple of weeks the photos I post on “7 Days” will be from the San Francisco County Jail project, “Locked and Found”. In 2006 the then Sheriff of San Francisco asked me to document the last 3 months of County Jail 3, then the oldest county jail in the state.

During those 3 months I found people liked to tell me stories. When after 3 months the old jail was closed, I asked the Sheriff to let me do a new project - “Take a Picture, Tell a Story” - in all SF jails. I got permission for 1 year, which was then renewed every year until the end of 2019.

At some point in the early years the prisoners decided “Locked and Found” was a better title and “Take a Picture, Tell a Story” became an umbrella name for a number of projects I was doing that use images with first person story telling.

Sheriff Hennessey retired in 2012. The years between 2012 and 2019 saw the department have 2 Sheriffs each servicing two different times.

Even before 2012 the general atmosphere in the jails had been changing but Michael Hennessey was not only progressive, he was good at the administrative aspects of running an institution.

After 2012 deputies became openly “lock them up, through away the key”, and distrust and hostility towards my presence increased as did attempts to have me removed.

The “new” Sheriffs became increasingly weak - for different reasons but with the same result within the jail - until in November of 2019 when my pass was withdrawn with immediate effect.

Since the end of 2019 there has been a pandemic, jail closings, understaffing in the jail while deputies are detailed to the streets for the Mayor’s “War on Drugs”, and I moved on to the “Division Street” and book.

It is had to overstate what the thirteen and half years I spent in the jail taught me about photography, listening, working with people, and about institutions.

For several reasons I have, after almost 4 years, found thinking about the project possible again. I don’t know if I will add, from the archive, more portraits and stories to the “Locked and Found” section on this site, time will tell. In the meantime I’ll post a few portraits over the next 2-3 weeks.