26 February - 03 March 2024
Chinese New Year’s Parade. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 24 February 2024
Photography
Sergei Novikov: Gentrifying London
The Guardian: A train through Ukraine: a journey into the stories of two years of war | by Shaun Walker, photographs by Kasia Stręk
The New Yorker: Juanita Escoba - A Girl’s Coming of Age in the Country of Her Childhood | by Ana Karina Zatarain
Aperture: Adam Rouhana Searching for Freedom in Palestine | by Will Matsuda
The Guardian: Mi Perro: Prisoners and their dogs in Latin America – a photo essay | by Ronald Pizzoferrato
The Guardian: ‘Russia’s Cartier-Bresson’: how Dmitry Markov captured beauty amidst the brutality of Putin’s regime | by Howard Amos
The Picture Show: Humanitarian crisis grows in Gaza as mediation attempts resume | by NPR staff
Float: Distant Dialogues
Lifeboat Station Project: Women of the RNLI at the National Maritime Museum
Roger Viollet: Fighting for free contraception | by Catherine Deudon and Janine Niepce
Lenscratch: Grace Weston: Reclaiming the Muse | by Aline Smithson
Aperture: What Does It Mean to Collaborate in Photography? | by Yxta Maya Murray
Efie Gallery: James Kobla (J.K.) Bruce-Vanderpuije
Huck: Photographer J.K. Bruce-Vanderpuije’s extensive body of work is the subject of a new exhibition charting the changing shape of Ghana. | by Miss Rosen
Howard Greenberg Gallery: William Gedney
Fraction: No Visitors No Candles | by Shreya Sahai
Magnum: Good Morning, America | by Mark Power
The New Yorker: Richard Billingham - A Landmark Look at Family Dysfunction | by Chris Wiley
Salih Basheer: Projects
Blind: The Introspection of Frank Ockenfels 3
Frank W. Ockenfels 3: website
BJP: ‘Painting with a mechanical eye’: The unsung mastery of Saul Leiter | by Ravi Ghosh
Washington Post: Resurrecting photos from decades of work in Appalachia | by Kenneth Kickerman
Christopher Payne: General Pencil
Culture, Art and Design
Chinese New Year’s Parade. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 24 February 2024
The Guardian: How we made: ‘I recently went back to the Texas border – and urinated on the wall’: how we made Lone Star | John Sayles interviewed by Phil Hood
London Review of Books: Give your mom a gun | by Geoff Mann
NY Times: ‘Snoop’ Pearson Wants to Tell Her Story, With Help From a ‘Wire’ Friend | by Jonathan Abrams
Artsy: Jennifer Tee Collages Tulips into Vivid, Cross-Cultural Tapestries | by Maxwell Rabb
Artsy: Why the Ceramics Market Is Having a Moment | by Lucy Howie
Creative Boom: Special report: how design agencies are actually using AI in 2024 | by Tom May
The Marshall Project: We call straight women who couple up with fellow prisoners “gay for the stay.” That slang masks the complexity — and often beauty — of these bonds. | by Samantha Vantassell
McSweeney’s: Life Begins At Conception, Unless It’s An Election Year | by Devorah Blachor
The Bitter Southerner: My Favorite Restaurant Served Gas | by Kiese Laymon, photos Kate Medley
Huck: The Elusive Street Artist Taking on the World | by Josh Jones, Illustrations Foka Wolf
AnOther: Who Is Dorothy Dean? A 1960s New York Star Steps Into the Light | by Zoe Whitfield
Print: Adraint Bereal’s Lens Captures the Essence of Black College Life | by Amelia Nash
Dirt: Billboards still matter - Advertise here. | by Michelle Santiago Cortés
The Guardian: Risotto crisis: the fight to save Italy’s beloved dish from extinction | by Ottavia Spaggiari
Books
MACK: Material Reform: Building for a Post-Carbon Future | by Material Cultures
PhMuseum: Photobook Review: Rambles, Dreams, and Shadows by Arthur Tress | by Colin Pantall
Photobook Journal: Nancy Richards Farese – Potential Space: A Serious Look at Child’s Play | review by Gerhard Clausing
Podcast
Sundial, Skull and power meters. Potrero Hill - San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 29 February 2024
Appalshop (Youtube): Mountain Farmer | by Shelby Adams, Mimi Pickering
The Food Chain (BBC): Table Talk
Fixing the World (BBC): Bringing dead languages back to life
The Artificial Human: Could AI Swing an Election?
Headbanging Headlines:
Fox 4 Kanas City: 2024: Fox 4 Kanas City: Missouri law says pregnant women can't get divorced - Three other states have similar laws: Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas. While a couple can still file for divorce in Missouri, the court must wait until after a woman gives birth in order to finalize child custody and child support.
PetaPixel: Students Discover M&M’s Vending Machine is Spying on Them
Other Things
Man found shot is examined by a man from the Medical Examiner’s office while homicide detectives wait. In 1994 San Francisco had 98 murders. In 2023: 53. San Francisco, California.
Photo Robert Gumpert 1994
Washington Post: Alabama embryo ruling may have devastating effect on cancer patients | by Sabrina Malhi
Washington Post: With Alabama’s IVF court ruling, a scary future for women’s health care | by Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Tim Craig
Washington Post: How to use ethylene absorbers to keep fruits and vegetables fresh | by Allyson Chiu
The Guardian: Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says | by Nina Makhani
military.com: Veterans Care in the Community Is Pushing the VA to the Brink. | by Suzanne Gordon and Russell Lemle
CPR: (From 2016) Reporting massive human rights abuses behind a façade - Two reporters escaped with their lives, but left Cambodia with very different stories. History shows one was right. | by Elizabeth Becker
LA Times: They say San Francisco is coming back as a tech hub, but it never really left | by Michel Hiltzik
Labor
Washington Post: AI ‘dream girls’ are coming for porn stars’ jobs - AI will change adult entertainment forever. The risks — for sex workers and the rest of us — are profound | by Tatum Hunter
Miami Herald: 15-year-old falls to death on AL roofing job first day | by Olivia Lloyd
UAW: “We are the majority”: Workers at Mercedes-Benz’s largest US plant announce majority support for joining UAW
Washington Post: The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason. | by Rachel Siegel, Lauren Kaori Gurley and Meryl Kornfield
Social Issues (2024 election)
Mediaite: ‘We Didn’t Get All The Way There On Jan 6’: Trump Booster Pledges to End Democracy in CPAC Rant as Bannon Cheers On | by Jennifer Bowers Bahney
Washington Post: Opinion | Jim McDermott left Congress. Then he had to leave the country. | by Elizabeth Becker
Washington Post: Opinion | Would Trump be a dictator? And can he be stopped? | by Robert Kagan
Mother Jones: The Smirnov Affair: MAGA Republicans Are Useful Idiots for Russian Intelligence | by David Corn
Courthouse News Service: Challenging Cruz for Senate seat, two Texas Democrats emerge as frontrunners | by Cameron Thompson, Kirk McDaniel
LA Times: Latino political power emerges in South L.A. | by Gustavo Arellano
TNR: Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court Over Trump Delay—and Hands Dems a Weapon | by Greg Sargent
Social Issue
Belongings and things left on the street in back of San Francisco General Hospital. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 29 February 2024
Garbage photo
The Guardian: What I learned about the US death penalty from the next man to be executed | by Alex Hannaford
ProPublica: This Mississippi Court Appoints Lawyers for Just 1 in 5 Defendants Before Indictment | Co-published with The Marshall Project and Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
The Daily Beast: Reddit Files to Go Public, Reveals That It Paid CEO $193 Million Last Year | by Noah Kirsch
TPM: Liberal Justices Cut Through Right-Wing Obfuscating: Bump Stocks And Machine Guns Do ‘Same Thing’ | by Kate Riga
moz://a: Did AI Generate This Photo? Here’s How To Tell | by Xavier Harding
Vox: Reddit, Tumblr, Wordpress: The deals that will sell your data to train AI models | by A.W. Ohlheiser
SF Chronicle: Without insurance, Habitat can’t sell our homes to those who need them | by Debbie Arakel
Division Street
Tent and belongings. Dore and Bryant streets, under the freeway overpass. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 4 February 2024
Crossing the bridge photo
NY Times: A Life Without a Home - Voices from he tents, shelters, cars, motels and couches of America
KSBW: Major homeless encampment sweep of Salinas railroad tracks, 'no plan' for relocation | by Brisa Colón
LA Times: A tent encampment rises outside Ojai’s stately City Hall. Its residents might break your heart | by Hailey Branson-Potts, Photos Michael Owen Baker
Dazed: Q&A - How the housing crisis is impacting culture in Manchester | text by Hugh Morris
The Guardian: California wants to force people into mental health care. Advocates say it will backfire | by Maanvi Singh
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