7 Days: 11 December - 17 December 2023
Santa marks a residence driveway entrance on Cabrillo Hwy at 9th Street. Montara, California Photo Robert Gumpert 03 December 2023
Photography
Howard Greenberg Gallery: Frank Gohlke
Bloomberg: Scenes From an Arctic Circle Under Siege | by Liam Denning - photographs by Louie Palu
Blind: Andre D. Wagner’s Poetic Scenes of New York | by Miss Rosen
Lenscratch: Collective Week: Small Talk Collective | by Kassandra Eller
Aperture: How John Akomfrah’s Videos Tell a Story of Migration and Belonging | by Vanessa Peterson
Fraction: Shane Rocheleau Issue 172 Lakeside (2022)
Document: Eduard Sánchez Ribot makes magic of the mundane | text by Jayne O’Dwyer
Danish School of Media and Journalism: Sahl Abdelrahman has won first prize in Egypt Press Photo 2022
Blind: Death and Noisy as Life | by Ronan Guillou
Ronan Guillou: 1968 - 2022 Photographie
The Guardian: West Bank settler violence | by David Lombeida
The Leica Camera Blog: Legacy of a Luthier Transcends Musical Notes | photographer Lydia Ho
Huck: The World Through the Eyes of War Photographer Don McCullin | by Miss Rosen
Field of View: The Challenge of Walker Evans - Does consent kill authenticity in Street Photography? | by Patrick Witty
David Gillanders: website
The Image Center: Otherworldly: Deborah Turbeville Photographs | curator: Denise Birkhofer
i-D: Merrick Morton spent two decades documenting the evolution of cholo culture, community, and style in East LA and South Central. | by Miss Rosen
Culture, Art and Design
BiP Kid-With-Gun Mural on Franklin Street and Oak. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 24 July 2023
NY Times: In Los Angeles, the ‘Coroner to the Stars’ Has the Last Word | by Corina Knoll
The Guardian: Groundbreaking graphic novel by Joe Sacco on Gaza rushed back into print 20 years on | by David Barnett
Aeon: What colour do you see? - hidden differences in how people experience the world | by Gary Lupyan, edited by Sam Dresser
The New Yorker: Watch This Space - The global ambitions of Invader’s street art | by Lauren Collins
Hyperallergic: What We Lose When Curating Follows the Money | by Olivia McEwan
The Guardian: Shock of the old: 11 murderous and macabre Victorian Christmas cards | by Emma Beddington. Pictures selected by Sarah Gilbert
NY Times: At Trump’s Fraud Trial, a Courtroom Artist With a Different View | by Zachary Small
The Guardian: ‘It felt like being stripped naked’: the prisoners confronting their crimes with art | by Elizabeth Fullerton
The Guardian: ‘We all get dressed for Bill’: the street photographer who captured New York’s sartorial spirit | by Maddie Thomas
Wendy Red Star: Work
NY Times: On the Texas Border, Folk Healers Bring Modern Touches to Their Ancient Practice | by Edgar Sandoval, Photos: Verónica Gabriella Cárdenas
BBC: Ncuti Gatwa: Doctor Who star on why he 'felt like alien' growing up | by Lizo Mzimba
NY Times: Defeating Trump Is Just a Start | by Janelle Bouie
Other Stuff
Surfing and fishing along the Great Highway at Vincente - at the sewerage pipe. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 14 December 2023
Reuters: Maersk to pause all container ship traffic through the Red Sea
The Loadstar: Maersk halts local ship movements following attack | by Alexander Whiteman
The Loadstar: Liner diversions and war-risk surcharges drive up costs for Asia-Europe shippers | by Mike Wackett
Washington Post: Two maps show why shipping firms are suspending routes in the Red Sea | by Laris Karklis
Reuters: Why the Indian Ocean could be China's Achilles' heel in a Taiwan war | by Greg Torode
El País: Return of The Beast, the train that mutilates migrants’ dreams | by Carmen Morán Breña
The Guardian: Revealed: the oldest black hole ever observed, dating to dawn of universe | by Hannah Devlin
PetaPixel: The Implications of AI Recreating Images From Our Mind is Frightening | by Matt Growcoot
Wallpaper: ‘The Irreplaceable Human’ at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark asks what creativity is in the age of AI | by Amah-Rose Abrams
McSweeney’s: We are Wirecutter, and last winter we sent 86 reporters to test 1500 artificial Christmas Trees. 12 haven’t returned. | by Chas Gillespie
YouTube: Archimedes and a Boat Lift: the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland
OneStep Power: What is the Falkirk Wheel? (video)
LA Times: Huntington Beach is sticking it to 'woke' California. Some residents ask at what cost | by Hannah Fry
El País: Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy: ‘There is a possibility that artificial intelligence will become conscious’ | by Verónica M. Garrido
Washington Post: This company was ordered to spend $2 billion on EV chargers. Many of them don’t work | by Shannon Osaka
NY Times: Israel Found the Hamas Money Machine Years Ago. Nobody Turned It Off. | by Jo Becker and Justine Scheck
When the Headline in Enough
Texas Observer: Texas GOP Rejects Ban on Association with Nazis and Extremists
PetaPixel: Venice Tourists Capsize Gondola After They Refuse to Stop Taking Selfies
BBC: Paris Ritz: Missing €750k ring found in hotel vacuum bag
SF Chronicle: S.F. DA Brooke Jenkins faces blowback after saying homeless people should be made ‘uncomfortable’
Podcast
Magnum Photos: Jim Goldberg - Coming and Going (video near bottom of the page
The Photowalk: Rachelle Steele - from the US Navy to professional photographer
Pictures on My Mind: London Documentary Photographer Claudia Leisinger: Interview - YouTube
Books
The Guardian: “A Republic of Scoundrels”: America’s original white men behaving badly | by Rich Tenorio
Blind: 10 Photo Books That Make Great Christmas Gifts | by Iris Mandret
LensCulture: Favorite Photobooks 2023
Labor
The Pickle Family Circus of San Francisco. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 1994
The New Yorker: The War in Gaza Has Been Deadly For Journalist | by Isaac Chotiner
El País: Reporters Without Borders denounces ‘unprecedented scale’ of journalist deaths in Gaza war | by Diego Stacey
Poynter: 5 local news experts on the best and worst of 2023 | by Kristen Hare
Dezeen: Australia bans engineered stone due to silicosis risk | by Rima Sabina Aouf
Labor Notes: Union Win at Bus Factory Electrifies Georgia | by Luis Feliz Leon
Social Issues
The foot of Rockaway Beach Avenue in Pacific. Pacific, a small town just south of San Francisco is facing massive issues related to global warming, rising sea temperatures and coast line erosion. Photo Robert Gumpert 06 December 2023
Texas Observer: Louise Culbertson: A Paris to Marfa March for Reproductive Rights |by Gayle Reaves
NY Times: Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Woman Who Sought Court-Approved Abortion | by J. David Goodman
ProPublica: Inside the Notorious Gun Shop Linked to Hundreds of Chicago Guns | by Vernal Coleman
LA Times: State regulators find mold, broken toilets, missing fire safety records in L.A. County jails | by Keri Blankinger
LA Times: He got off death row, now helps mentally ill inmates in L.A. | by Thomas Curwen, Photo Irfan Khan
LA Times: Opinion: Believe Trump when he vows media revenge. MAGA acolytes are already attacking | by Robin Abcarian
ProPublica: Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Now Work for Insurers, Deciding If They’ll Pay for Care | by Patrick Rucker, The Capitol Forum, and David Armstrong and Doris Burke, ProPublica
TPM: Supreme Court Lets Map That Two Courts Found To Violate Voting Rights Act Stand | by Kate Riga
NY Times: How the Israel-Hamas War Tore Apart Public Defenders in the Bronx | by Santa Nerjar and Jonah E. Bromwich
ProPublica: Idaho Keeps Some Psychiatric Patients in Prison, Ignoring Decades of Warnings About the Practice | by Audrey Dutton
NY Times: 48 Million Americans Live With Addiction. Here’s How to Get Them Help That Works. | by Jensen Interlandi; photos Damon Winter
Division Street
Exhausted Christmas display after a hard day’s night. Vincente Street in the Sunset District. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 14 December 2023
LA Times: SoCal housing crisis makes commutes worse for many | by Terry Castleman
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: 2023 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress
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