24 July - 30 July 2023
Najee Barrow. 12 Sept 2017: San Bruno, CA. SF CJ 5. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Photography
The Guardian: ‘No poor person decides how they get photographed’ | by Guy Lane
Blind: The Forgotten Images of the Spanish Civil War - The Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier features the first exhibition in France of photographs by the Spanish Civil War artist-photographer Antoni Campañà, which had been hidden away for years in two mysterious red boxes. | by Michaël Naulin
LFI: Community
Magnum: Werner Bischof - The Korean War: Behind the Battlefront
BJP: Granta’s photo editor on finding image-text harmony | by Izabela Radwanska Zhang
The New Yorker: The photojournalist Bud Lee captured the riots of 1967 and the human cost of the brutal police crackdown. | by M. Aa. Adnan
Aperture: Jade Thiraswas’s Sensitive Chronicle of Pride and Mourning in the American South | by Jordan Amirkhani
Ignant: In Conversation: With Photography and Life, Joe Greer Takes the Long View | by Anna Dorothea Ker
AnOther: Emmanuel Cole’s Photographs Capture the Beating Heart of London | by George Pistachio
Culture, Art and Design
Creative Boom: Five of the best Barbie-inspired marketing campaigns | by Ben Veal
Design Boom: barbie mania, or how warner bros' creative marketing campaign painted the whole world pink - THIS BARBIE IS…TRYING TOO HARD? | by Matthew Burgos
El País: Pink is political: How ‘Barbie’ blends activism, entertainment, and business as usual | by Noah Benalal
The Guardian: How did Barbie do it? Warner’s head of marketing on creating a ‘pink movement’ | by Lois Beckett
Print: Poor Man’s Feast: On Anxiety and the Search for an Anchor (Regarding The Bear) | by Elisa Altman
Creative Boom: Is blogging still relevant? Here's how to promote yourself online in 2023 | by Ben Veal
Creative Boom: 'Art is a way of life': Illustrator Hanyu Mu on leaving an emotional mark on her audience | by Dom Carter
McSweeney’s: We Promise Out STEM Toys Will Never Teach Your Child the Humanities | by Donovan Tang
Print: It’s Time to Rethink ‘Good Vibes Only’ | by Liz Gumbinner
Print: ‘Semiotics on the Street’ Looks for Connections in Modern Symbols Around the World
JSTOR Daily: Making Music Male How did record collecting and stereophile culture come to exclude women as consumers and experts? | by Ashawnta Jackson
It’s Nice That: What do you do when a project ends? We explore creative grief and how to deal with it | Words Danielle Pender, Illustration Anny Peng
McSweeney’s: Take a Break From Earth’s Heat and Come Cool Off in Hell | by Luke Strathmann
Other Stuff
Washington Post: Scientists detect sign that a crucial ocean current is near collapse | by Sarah Kaplan
The Guardian: We can’t afford to be climate doomers | by Rebecca Solnit
The Guardian: Florida ocean records ‘unprecedented’ temperatures similar to a hot tub | by Dani Anguiano and agencies
Washington Post: Where the most U.S. residents bake because of concrete and lack of trees | by Andrea Salcedo
Reuters: Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints | by Steve Stecklow and Norihiko Shirouzu
Science History Institute: In the Shadow of Oppenheimer | by Joshua Wheeler, Reto Sterchi
LA Times/De Los: Was the Oppenheimer test site unpopulated? | by Cat Cardenas
Washington Post: In court, Tulsa race-massacre descendants just can’t win | by Karen Attiah
Labor
ProPoblica: Immigration Death on a Dairy Farm When an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy was run over on … | by Melissa Sanchez and Maryam Jameel
Deadline: Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Stars Hit Times Square Rally – From Fraser, Chastain, Cranston & Pierce To Slater, Wong, Hennessy, Shannon, Buscemi & More | by Valerie Complex, Sean Piccoli
Deadline: Latest in Labor
The Guardian: US labor department condemns surge in child labor after teen dies on the job | by Michael Sainato
Headbanging Headlines:
Twitter/X: A Tesla was in a junkyard for three weeks. Then it burst
into flames.
Podcast
Texas Labor Podcast: The state of the labor movement with Peter Olney
YouTube: Sinead O’Connor was booed at a Bob Dylan tribute concert at Madison Square Garden. When Kris Kristofferson came out and told her “don’t let the bastards get you down”, she changed her planned song and attempted to sing her version of ‘War’.
Books
Creative Boom: 'Embrace rejection': Graham Johnson on his book of failed ideas and how to cope with knockback | by Dom Carter
The Guardian: Arthur children’s book faces potential Florida ban over claim it ‘damaged souls’ | BY Maya Lang
Social Issues
AP News: Two teachers called out far-right activities at their German school. Then they had to leave town. | by Kirsten Grieshaber
LA Times: ‘I can’t die like this’: Video shows trans man beaten by deputy during stop | by Keri Blakinger
SF Chronicle: Bay Area nonprofit returns 43 acres to femal-led Indigenous land trust | by Jessica Flores
HuffPost: Italy Is Removing Lesbian Moms' Names From Their Children's Birth Certificates | by Sebastian Murdock
Washington Post: Trump’s GOP rivals open door to cutting Social Security for younger people | by Jeff Stein
NY Times: Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification | by Aatish Bhatia, Claire Cain Miller and Josh Katz
Dezeen: UN Human Rights Council experts "express alarm" over imminent executions connected to Neom | by Tom Ravenscroft
Print: Hey Jane Takes Abortion Care from Taboo Talk to a Powerful Billboard Campaign in Illinois | by Charlotte Beach
Washington Post: Dreams and Daily Seas | by Samantha Schmidt, Paulina Villegas and Hannah Dormido
Searchlight New Mexico: My nuclear family | by Alicia Inez Guzmán
ProPublica: They Needed Treatment. Mississippi Threw Them in Jail Without Charges. | Co-published with Mississippi Today , Sun Herald , Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal and The Guardian
Locked and Found
LaSonya Wells. 26 Feb 2016: San Francisco, CA. CJ 2. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Chaka Cobb. 4 March 2016: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ 2. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Bryan Sylester. 5 October 2019: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ4. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Juan Prado. 9 March 2019: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ 4. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Paul Frazier. 5 October 2019: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ4. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Alvarado Amaya. 10 August 2019: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ 4. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Division Street
LA Times: Extreme heat in California is dangerous for homeless people living outside | by Ruben Vives, Akiya Dillon, Photos: Iran Khan
SF Chronicle: Court rules S.F. towing policy illegal | by Bob Egelko
LA Times: Opinion: Homeless, when you just can’t afford the rent | by Robert Karron
Huck: The Homeless Couple Who Fell in Love in the Shadow of Silicon Valley | by Josh Jones - Photography by Niall O'Brien
Mission Local: SF says drug users turn down services. But what’s on offer? | by Griffin Jones
Voice of San Diego: 4 Common Assumptions About Homelessness and What the Data Says About Them | by Will Huntsberry
SF Chronicle: These 2 California cities have higher rates of homelessness than SF | by Mallory Moench
LA Times: Anchorage mayor may fly homeless people to L.A. for the winter | by Ruben Vives
The Guardian: The use of the term unhoused has grown exponentially in the last few years, and those who have adopted it say it emphasizes a lack of affordable housing | by Amanda Abrams
See more of my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis
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