17 June 2025
“No Kings Day” participants arriving at Delores Park in San Francisco, kicking off site for the 50-60,000 who marched to the civic center to demand an end to the Trump presidency. 14 June 2025. Photo: Robert Gumpert
The “Statue of Liberty” gently weeps for the country under Donald Trump. “No Kings Day” march, San Francisco, California. 14 June 2025. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Where once there was a rail-yard and warehouses there are now apartments, businesses, medical services and research facilities with a diverse population of locals, nationals and immigrants. A local pizza joint in the new neighborhood of Mission Bay where research assistants, professors, young families, and entrepreneurs come to eat. San Francisco, California. 15 May 2025. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Picking pomegranates in California’s central valley near Fresno. With soaring temperatures and low wages workers in the field are almost exclusively migrants from south of the border. Many who have been in the States for years, have laid down roots, have families in local schools, support the local economies, pay taxes and social security. They now face deportation and the crops will rot all the ground before growers will find other workers or pay higher wages. Near Fresno, California, 1999. Photo: Robert Gumpert
The Reads
TEXAS ALREADY GIVES PUBLIC ED DOLLARS TO PRIVATE OPERATORS. HERE’S HOW THAT WORKED OUT. | Josephine Lee/Texas Observer
BETWEEN FIRES IN LOS ANGELES AND FASCISM IN AMERICA - Altadena’s vision of regeneration is the antidote to the political conflagration that threatens us all. | Robin D. G. Kelley/Hammer&Hope
Dispatches From the Death Chamber - A conversation with Elizabeth Bruenig about murder and forgiveness | Stephanie Bai/The Atlantic
Photography, Culture, Art
Photographer Robert Landau’s New Book Celebrates the Centennial of LA Art Deco | Charlotte Beach/Print
The Daily Heller: Presenting Poster Pop Paintings | Steven Heller/Print
Fata Morgana — Egypt’s Vast Uninhabited City Rising in the Desert | Photos-Texts Louis Roth/Lensculture
Lindokuhle Sobekwa | MagnumPhotography in a World Where the Center No Longer Holds
Photography in a World Where the Center No Longer Holds | Zack Hatfield/Aperture
Iran’s Daughters of the SeaForough Alaei’s stunning photographs of a community of fisherwomen on a remote island in the Persian Gulf | Robin Wright/New Yorker Photo Booth
RICHARD MISRACH: CARGO | Linda Alterwitz/Lenscratch
Following his death last week, BJP revisits a conversation with Nick Hedges on his work across working class Britain and his legacy contributions to British photography | BJP
Book
Black Chronicles - Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain Edited by Renée Mussai
Science
Have LLMs Finally Mastered Geolocation? | Foeke Postma, Nathan Patin/Bellingcat
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