4 September - 10 September 2023
7 Days: may, may not, publish again in September - but will be back either the 1st or 8th October.
Butcher. Paris, France 2016 Photo Robert Gumpert
Photography
The Guardian: Photographer Benny Lam has documented the suffocating living conditions in Hong Kong’s subdivided flats, recording the lives of these hidden communities
The Guardian: ‘When your eye, heart and brain are aligned, that’s when you take a photo’: Pier Luigi Dodi’s best phone picture | by Grace Holliday
Magnum Photos: Emerging in Fragments: Sim Chi Yin’s 'One Day We'll Understand'
Culture, Art and Design
Diners, SOHO, London, England 18 January 2016 Photo Robert Gumpert
Print: The Daily Heller: Bill Russell is Journalistic Illustration’s Fan and Chronicler
Creative Boom: Future Rust, Future Dust: Loïc Vendrame's series explores the ruins of the modern world | by Tom May
LA Times: HBO is ending 'Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel' after 29 years | by Stephen Battaglio
The Bitter Southerner: Lucinda Williams and the Idea of Louisiana | by Wyatt Williams
Design Boom: Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego capture Brutalism across Italy
Other Stuff
The Guardian: When Elon Musk’s ‘flying sofas’ give Ukraine internet access, we can’t sit comfortably | by John Naughton
Labor
Washington Post: The veteran TV writer (“Homicide,” “Oz”), on his fourth strike in 40 years, is fighting to save the profession that gave him a legacy.
Podcast
Waiting on the plane. SFO, San Francisco, California 5 November 2017 Photo Robert Gumpert
The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography: Sandy Sugawara and Catiana Garcia Kilroy “Show Me the Way Home”
BBC Sounds - The Food Chain: This kid cooks
BBC Sounds - Assignment: Surviving Greece’s boat disaster
Social Issues
Washington Post: Five billion people will face extreme heat at least a month each year by 2050
Washington Post: Pakistan bears the brunt of global extreme heat illness and mortality | by Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda and Saiyna Bashir
The Guardian: Almost 1m people across Europe are homeless on any given night | by Lisa O’Carroll
Washington Post: The March on Washington, 60 years later: Memories from 1963 participant
ProPublica: Utah Makes Welfare So Hard to Get, Some Feel They Must Join the LDS Church to Get Aid | by Eli Hager, photography by Kim Raff for ProPublica
NY Times: Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices | by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
LA Times: Orange Unified says it will notify parents if student IDs as transgender | by Howard Blum
LA Times: Even the least expensive areas of California are becoming less affordable, and more desirable | by Terry Castelman
Division Street
SF Chronicle: S.F. has 1,000 empty units for the homeless | by Aldo Toledo
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
7 Days: may, may not, publish again in September - but will be back either the 1st or 8th October.
Point Lobos-remains of Sutro Baths. San Francisco, California 03 January 2021 Photo Robert Gumpert