31 July - 06 August 2023 — Robert Gumpert

Miner in a bar after his shift in the mine. Lusaka, Zambia - 1991. Photo: Robert Gumpert

Photography

Blind: Laurent Ballesta: Son of the Sea | by Jonas Cuénin

i-D: How Carrie Mae Weems sees herself | by Ashley Tyner

Huck: Photographer John Bolloten was granted rare access to Elita, pro-nationalist ultras supporting Dinamo Tbilisi, to document a group typically closed off to outsiders. | by Isaac Musk

Hyperallergic: A Trove of Rarely Seen Photographs of Revolutionary Black Women | by Elaine Velie

In Sight: Meet this year’s Women Photograph grantees | by Kenneth Dickerman

Fraenkel Exhibitions: Richard Misrach - New Old Pictures New New Pictures

Blind: This summer, Photo Élysée in Lausanne spotlights women. Committed feminist photographers Laia Abril and Debi Cornwall show us what women have to say about the world | by Iris Mandret

Lenscratch: Photographers on Photographers: Suzannet T. White in Conversation with Roger Ballen

Lens Culture: Anastasia Samoylova - Image Cities interviewed by Gregory Eddi Jones

Metal: Tim Eastman - Quality over Quantity | Words Zach Lee

The Guardian: ‘I learn a lot from these people’: Anton Corbijn photographs artists | by Mee-Lai Stone

Blind: Bud Lee and Newark during the Long, Hot Summer of 1967 | by Robert E. Gerhardt

Creative Review: Tori Ferenc on telling complex stories through her portraits | by Rebecca Fulleylove

NY Times: Scenes From a City That Only Hands Out Tickets for Using Fentanyl | Photos: Jordan Gale, Text: Jan Hoffman

Menschphoto: Barbara Mensch - South Street 1980-1985

BJP: ‘Motivated by the desire to document real people’: Reflections on the work of Tish Murtha | by Philippa Kelly

The Leica Camera Blog: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham - Displace By The M23

Ignorant: In Conversation With Photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz: On The Arctic And The Interconnectedness Of Our World | by Devid Gualandris

Blind: Slavery, at Home - Shortly after moving to Beirut, Lebanon, photographer Aline Deschamps met women who were enslaved. | by Gaia Squarci

Lenscratch: Photographers on Photographers: Drew Leventhal in Conversation with Carolyn Drake | by Drew Leventhal

Aperture: Reagan Louie on Surviving the American Dream | Interviewed by Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander

Culture, Art and Design

Creative Boom: A step-by-step guide on deleting your social media accounts

Hyperallergic: Can AI Help Find the Children of Argentina’s Desaparecidos? | by Carolina Drake

Dazed: UFOria: how aliens are fuelling a new and uncharted era of disinformation | TextGünseli Yalcinkaya

The New Yorker: A New Italian Restaurant Pairs Serious Cooking with a Sense of Humor | by Helen Rosner

Hyperallergic: Ruins of Ancient Roman Theater Discovered During Dig for New Hotel | Rhea Nayyar

NY Times: Barbie Hoax Targets Mattel and Fools Some News Outlets | by Livia Albeck-Ripka and Orlando Mayorquin

Creative Boom: Shotaro Kitada creates a serious yet jokey reality in his paper sculpture artworks | by Dom Carter

Print: My Favorite Things: The Olfactory Never Sleeps | by Tom Guarriello

Huck: ‘A City For Dreamers:’ Celebrating a Century of Art in New York | by Miss Rosen

The Guardian: Mr Spock belting out showtunes? How Star Trek became a fizzy, frantic romp | by Graeme Virtue

El País: Excessive muscles, padded butts and other unattainable standards: How the ‘Wonderbra culture’ now affects men | by Jaime Lorite

Dawn: Paternity leave is feminist | by Maheer Irshad

Five Things, Saturday, August 5th from Martin Colyer

NY Times: Russia Takes Its Ukraine Information War Into Video Games | by Steven Lee Myers and Kellen Browning

Other Stuff

Creative Boom: Rookie PR mistakes to avoid when trying to get press coverage | by Katy Cowan

Tech Crunch: How to change back to the old Twitter app icon on iOS | by Amanda Silberling

Reuters: Four Nigerians, rescued in Brazil, survived 14 days on a ship's rudder | Steven Grattan

El País: In jail with Pablo López Alavez, 13 years behind bars in Mexico for a crime he did not commit | by Alejandro Santo Cid

Print: News From a Changing Planet: Saving Animals and the Ocean Saves Us | by Tatiana Schlossberg

The Guardian: Billionaires yearn for a life free of human contact – and they are imposing this on the rest of us | by Emma Beddington

The Verge: Google can now alert you when your private contact info appears online | by Emma Roth

TPM: Jeff Clark’s Insurrection Act Remark Was Even Worse Than It Sounds | by Josh Kovensky

Jacobin: Rosa Luxemburg Anticipated the Destructive Impact of Capitalist Globalization | by Peter Hudis

Labor

PetaPixel: Adobe Staff Worry Their AI Could Kill the Jobs of Their Own Customers | Jaron Schneider

Texas Observer: The “Death Star” Bill is About Kneecapping Democracy in Texas | by Gus Bova

NY Times: Deep Inside Mountains, Work Is Getting Much More Dangerous | by Drew A. Harris

Stansbury Forum: A Sister’s Murder Sparks Action - Tradeswomen Response to Workplace Violence | by Molly Martin

Headbanging Headlines:

The Guardian: Phoenix’s record streak of temperatures above 110F ends after 31 days

The Guardian: California: bear soaks in hot tub to beat the heat

Design Boom: formula E team builds first racing car made entirely of discarded electronics, vapes & phones

CNN: Chinese zoo denies its sun bears are people in costume

PetaPixel: Asian MIT Student Asks AI for a Pro Headshot, Gets Turned White

Podcast

Magnum: Cristina de Middel shares a tip on where to find ideas for your next photography project from her home in Salvador, Brazil. (video)

The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly: Episode 101: Elizabeth Winkler, journalist and critic on Shakespeare authorship

The Bitter Southerner: Immigrant Spaghetti | by Farhan Mustafa

A Small Voice: #210 - Ben Smith talks with Moises Saman

Books

PhotoBook Journal: David Bernstein – Walker’s Vein | by Steve Harp

Creative Review: The history of optical illusions in graphic design | by Daniel Milroy Maher

the Blue moment: Richard Williams’ Summer books 1: Henry Threadgill

Social Issues

JSTOR Daily: When San Francisco Feminists Rated Mexican Abortions - The California activists played the role of a health agency to ensure women received safe and competent health care in Mexican clinics. | by H.M.A. Leow

The Saskatoon Star Phoenix: Forced drug treatment not effective: Saskatoon police chief | by Thia James

NY Times: Scenes From a City That Only Hands Out Tickets for Using Fentanyl | Photos: Jordan Gale, Text: Jan Hoffman

Aeon: Thousands of Indigenous children suffered and died in residential ‘schools’ around the world. Their stories must be heard | by Steve Minton, edited by Cameron Allan McKean

Mississippi Today: Six Rankin officers plead guilty to torturing two Black men | by Brian Howey, Nate Rosenfield and Jerry Mitchell

The Guardian: ‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcohol | by Wilfred Chan

The Washington Post: The Montana youth behind a historic climate lawsuit | by Kate Selig

ZD Net: Google's new settings let you remove your private info from search results. Here's how | byLance Whitney

Locked and Found

Division Street

With plans announced to “evict” the RVs, Coalition Director Jennifer Friedenbach said: “We would get folks into housing and safe parking *before* they restrict parking.” RV line Winston Dr. near Lake Merced along the edge of SF State. 8 December 2019: San Francisco, CA. Photo: Robert Gumpert

SF Chronicle: RVs have flooded this quiet SF neighborhood. Now, they may get displaced | by Aldo Toledo

NY Times: Homeless Camps Are Being Cleared in California. What Happens Next? | by Livia Albeck-Ripka

LA Times: 'Selling Sunset's' Tarek and Heater El Moussa evicting rent-controlled tenants | by Liam Dillon

Deadline: HGTV Personality Tarek El Moussa Denies He’s Evicting North Hollywood Tenants To Build New Complex: “My Intentions Are To Do Good” | by Lynette Rice

See more of my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis

“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada

31 July - 06 August 2023