17 June - 23 June 2024
Edhi Center compound for people deemed unable to care for themselves. Outside Karachi, Pakistan. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1988
Photography
Kestle Barton Gallery: Colin Robins & Oliver Udy: Anthology of Rural Life – Farmers of The Lizard
Martin Parr Foundation: 20/20: Chris Killip / Graham Smith
Polka: “This Was Then”, Enfin La Première Monogramme de Mike Abrahams
Truth In Photography: Upstate Girls - Brenda Ann Kenneally Interview and Photographs
Wobneb Magazine: The inaugural exhibition hosted by Wobneb Magazine - with essay by Rob Hudson
LensCulture: Europa — Brilliant Early Street Photography from Joel Meyerowitz 1966-67 | by Alyssa Monte
Anastasia Taylor-Lind: Projects
Joseph Bellow Gallery: Along the Road
E.O. Hoppé: Age of Industry
Then There Was Us: Kate Schultze - Mind the gap, luv. | by Jonathan Tomlinson
Metal: Thaddé Comar - In the eye of the storm | Words Jenny Daphne Pitsillides
Museum der Moderne Salzburg: The Dynamics of Photography. 7 Tentative Positionings | curator: Katharina Ehrl
1000 Words: Silvia Rosi - Disintegrata | Exhibition review by Mariacarla Molè
Daniel Alexander Skwarna: Personal Work
Print: The Daily Heller: Meet the People of Moldova
Gost: Craig Easton - Thatcher’s Children
Chloé Jafé: Trilogy
Archival Recordings: Recent Photographs 06142024 | by Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
Monroe Gallery: June 21, 1964: The Murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner | photos Bill Eppridge
Culture, Art and Design
Dog on poach, Sutter Street, near Japan Town. Photo: Robert Gumpert 21 June 2024
The Guardian: Sujata Setia’s Potent images that shine a light on domestic abuse | by Lisa O’Kelly
Civil Eats: Oral History Project Preserves Black and Indigenous Food Traditions | by Liz Susan Karl
Aperture: How Images Make the Objects We Desire Seem Irresistible | by Jesse Dorris
Print: Living History: Connecting the Threads Between Juneteenth and the Story of Black Graphic Designers | by Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller
Orion: The Fugees / Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | by Ross Gay
Something Curated: A Personal Guide to the Most Delicious Ice Cream in New York | by Luke Pension
Beaumont Enterprise: Mysterious monolith sighted near Las Vegas hiking trail similar to 2020 sightings | by Robin Bradshaw
McSweeney’s: We Love the Character of This Neighborhood So We Bought a House, Tore It Down, and Built a Mansion Resembling a La Quinta Inn | by Aaron Applegate
McSweeney’s: We’re Having a Get-Together. Could You Bring Your Massive, Poorly Trained Dog? | by Mike Langley
LA Times: 'Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.' documentary streaming on Max | by Lisa Fung
El País: Héctor Tobar, writer and journalist: ‘The United States has made being white akin to owning property, a very valuable asset’ | by Luis Pablo Beauregard
Washington Post: Your socks are showing your age | by Ashley Fetters Maloy and Samantha Chery
Headbanging Headlines:
El País: Mallorca, the destination chosen by Mark Zuckerberg to debut his $300 million megayacht which he gave himself for his 40th birthday. Estimated annual maintenance cost, more than $30 million
The Guardian: Nick Cannon Insures His Testicles For $10 Million
Podcast
Word of Mouth (BBC): Little Green Men: the secret rules of word order
YouTube: I Built A Car For My Child From AI's Imagination
Outlook (BBC): Sebastião Salgado - Photographing genocide broke me, it took a forest to heal me
Ben Smith’s A Small Voice: 233 - Chloé Jafé
Books
Conscientious: Akihiko Okamura’s The Memories of Others | reviewed by Jörg M. Colberg
Orion: A City Without Nature | by Nadina Galle
Dewi Lewis: Roland Ramanan “Dominoes”
Bluecoat: Mike Abrahams -“This Was Then”
Other Stuff
Nautilus: Magic Died When Art and Science Split | by Renée Bergland
NY Times: BNN Breaking - It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop. | by Kashmir Hill and Tiffany Hsu
The New Yorker: If ever there were a case for age-related diminishment of a candidate, Donald Trump is it. | by Susan B. Glasser
CNET: Get Ready to See a Sky Explosion That Only Happens Once Every 80 Year | by Joe Hindy
Washington Post: Men’s brains change when they become dads to prepare them for parenthood | by Lindsey Bever
Aeon: His radiant formula | by Roger Highfield, edited by Nigel Warburton
Science: Chimps use more plant medicines than any other animal | by Dennis Normile
Labor
Roofers at a home site. Berkeley, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2001
NY Times Magazine: The opioid epidemic has made a dangerous job even more deadly. And when there’s an overdose at sea, fishermen have to take care of one another. | by C.J. Chivers
The Load Star: East coast port strike looms larger as union takes a tough stance on wages | by Ian Putzger
Quartz: CEO pay is rising faster than it has in a decade — and 3 times as fast as worker wages | by Ben Kessler
Common Dreams: 'UAW All the Way': Ohio EV Plant Workers Hail Historic Contract Victory | by Brett Wilkins
Social Issues
Somewhere in Virginia off Interstate 95. Photo: Robert Gumpert April-May 1972
El País: The last days of death row in California: ‘We are not allowed to be human here’ | by Ikea Seisdedos
Huck: Missing Voices-I was made homeless 11 days after the Asylum decision I waited 16 years for
Mission Local: San Francisco doesn't give a damn what goes on in its jails | by Joe Eskenazi
Civil Eats: Zero-Waste Grocery Stores in Growth Mode as Consumers Seek to Ditch Plastic | by Christina Cooke
TPM: Rudy Giuliani Is Running The Risk Of Blowing Up His Own Bankruptcy Case | by Josh Kovensky
NY Times: Why Activists Keep Failing the Causes That Fire Them Up | by Sarah Isgur
Washington Post: ‘You need to know this story’: In 1964, the Klan killed three activists and shocked the nation | by Susan Levine
Photography by Michael S. Williamson
Division Street
Hover over the image for his story.
Marcel Mcrae, 51, in his tent, Potrero Ave meridian between Alameda and Division. He has been street sleeper off and on for 18-19 years and a resident of San Francisco for 51 years. Photo: Robert Gumpert 07 August 2023
In his words:
I’m just struggling, man. Not just a year ago I was living in a box, just me and my puppy, and now I’m in a more structured environment even though I’m still out here. I’m still homeless. I am employed. I’m still struggling everyday situations out here, dealing with the shuffle [being told to move], that’s what I call it. I take it day by day man. I choose to just keep trying everyday, everyday no matter what and it’s hard. But what am I going to do, just lay down and stop? Can’t do that.
I felt like once I became employed that things would be different, [but] no it’s not like that. It’s even harder. Learning how to be responsible, practicing being responsible on a day to day basis verses having no worries, and no cares, is different. You got to become disciplined, in doing so you got to stop doing a lot of things you did before.
I’m older now, I don’t have too much time left. I’m thinking about what kind of legacy I want to leave out here to my kids and my younger generation of friends. A lot of very good people have died on these streets. For what? For nothing. I don’t want to be one of them.
The San Francisco Standard: $2,500 in rent for a rusted RV? The rise of San Francisco’s vanlords | by Alex Mullaney
Texas Observer: Displaced to Death | by Nikita Burger
Street Sheet: Behind the Curtain of San Francisco’s Sweep Operations
Dezeen: Exploring how the UK's vacant retail spaces can be repurposed as community-owned housing. | by Lizzie Crook
