7 Days - 13 November - 19 November 2023

Man shot dead in a drive by shooting at Turk and Jones in the Tenderloin.  In 1994 there werr 136 murders in San Francisco..  San Francisco, California.  Photo: Robert Gumpert 1994.

Photography

Washington Post: The AR-15’s destructive force: A rare look at the weapon’s impact | Silvia Foster-Frau, N. Kirkpatrick and Arelis R. Hernández

Washington Post: The Post publishes photos from mass shootings and draws mixed reaction | by Paul Farhi

Poynter.: Opinion | How The Washington Post decided to show extremely graphic images of mass shootings | by Tom Jones

UNP: Photography as Witness, but should we look? | by Grant Scott

Lenscratch: Michael Kenna: Collecting Light, Photographs 1973-2023 | by Ann Jastrab

Blind: Archive of Time - a visual archive of personal objects that belonged to Philippe Halsman | by Henry Leutwyler

Rijasolo: Photographer based in Madagascar

i-D: Toronto-based photographer Saem captures his online community offline in ‘Age, Sex, Location’ | by Sara Quattrocchi Febles

Blind: Mario Macilau: the ghosts of Africa | by Iris Mandret

i-D: Stefan Ruiz is still reimagining the traditional portrait | by Ryan White

BJP: Portrait of Britain returns with a shortlist of 200 photographs that celebrate the country’s unique heritage and diversity

NOMA: Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything | and her website

Creative Boom: Tim George's incredible photos capture the rapidly vanishing world of pubs in the East End | by Dom Carter

PhMuseum: This Golden Mile | by Ravi Pujara

Dazed: Rediscovering the work of forgotten documentary photographer Tish Murtha | by Zoe Whitfield

The New Yorker - Photo Booth: The Freedom to See Rome Anew | Photographs by Perry Hall - Text Paul Elie

Lenscratch: Diversify Photo: Building Community | by Ashima Yadava

Field of View: Embedding with the Enemy - The world should see the atrocities committed by Hamas, not punish the photojournalists who document them. | by Patrick Witty

Huck: Documenting the Lives of Young American Travellers | Photography by Michael Joseph - text by Millen Brown-Ewens

The Dial: Those Who Have Done Nothing - El Salvador’s “regime of deception.” | words by John Gilbert - photos Miguel Tovar

NY Times: What One Photo Shows About a Gaza Hospital in Chaos

Blind: Roger Ballen’s Bizarre World

AnOther: Gail Thacker’s Haunting Polaroids of New York’s Downtown Theatre Scene | by Zoe Whitfield

The Guardian: Suitcase Joe’s photos of - Life on the streets of Los Angeles | by Sarah Gilbert

The Guardian: Civil rights, motorcycle clubs and New Mexico landscapes: 60 years of Danny Lyon’s photography | by Matt Fidler

Culture, Art and Design

Possibly a Century Plant Agave americana on Pennsylvania Avenue between 18th and 17th streets.  Photo: Robert Gumpert 14 November 2023

i-D: Photographing 80s sound system culture in Jamaica & the UK | by Miss Rosen

Print: Poor Man’s Feast: The Things We Cling To | by Elissa Altman

Orion: Eating from the Mountains - A complicated relationship with hunting | by Phoebe McIlwain Bright

Metropolis: What is the Role of Sustainability in Public Sector Design? | by James McCown

Aeon: The patterns of reality - Some have thought that logic will one day be completed and all its problems solved. Now we know it is an endless task | by Timothy Williamson - edited by Nigel Warburton

Designboom: The Biggest Piece of Temporary Land Art in Arizona

Dezeen: Neom unveils pair of jagged skyscrapers for luxury resort on Gulf of Aqaba | by Cajsa Carlson

Dezeen: Yasmeen Lari on track to build a million flood-resilient Pakistan homes by 2024 | by Amy Frearson

Hammer & Hope: Come In - A call and response between the artist Carrie Mae Weems and the poet Ashley M. Jones

Docspopuli: Press power of the Long 1960s: Liberation through duplication | by Lincoln Cushing

Other Stuff 

Hammer & Hope: Michelle Alexander on Palestine

The Baffler: Bringing up the Bodies - The forensic anthropologists who redress migrant death in Texas | by Caroline Trace

Nautilus: More than 90 percent of coastal wetlands have been altered or destroyed. What’s next? | by Katherine Gammon

The New Yorker: The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers | by Isaac Chotiner

Orion: The Edge of the Scared | by Jake Skeets

McSweeney’s: Twelve Things Your College Freshman Son Will Never Say During His Weekly Call Home | by Lili Wright

London Review of Books: On Non-Violent Resistance | by Manal A. Jamal

Labor

Washington Post: Mike McDaniel needs a reboot - Adventures in crashing and recovering with the NFL’s most dynamic coach. | by Kent Babb

Portside: Oklahoma Senator Driven to Violent Frenzy by Teamsters President | by Jarod Facundo/American Prospect

Poynter.: US lost more than two local newspapers a week this year, new Medill report finds | by Angela Fu

NY Times: Sex Workers Have Been Shunned by Banks, Even When Their Work Is Legal | by Tara Siegel Bernard

The Forward: Q&A with photographer Lynsey Addario about covering war | by Beth Harpaz

Headbanging Headlines:

PetaPixel: Israel Threatens to ‘Eliminate’ Photojournalists Who Documented October 7 Attack | by Matt Growcoot

NY Times: Xi Tells Biden ‘Planet Earth Is Big Enough’ for Both the U.S. and China

The Guardian: The Crown season 6 review – so bad it’s basically an out-of-body experience

Wired: The QAnon Shaman Isn’t Even the Most Extreme Candidate in His Race for Congress

The Guardian: Gun Owners of America, formed in belief NRA was ‘too liberal’

Podcast

A resident with TB and possibly AIDS in a ward at Mother Teresa Home in Port au Prince, Haiti.  Photo: Robert Gumpert 1990

Aljazeera: Can foreign intervention save Haiti from gang violence? | by Harold Isaac

Youtube: John Sevigny (photographer) - Northern Triangle (2020) | by Roberto Cuxil

Ear Hustle: Episode 98: That World

Books

PhotoBook Journal: Regina Anzenberger – Roots & Waltz | review by Douglas Stockdale

AnOther: Manju Journal’s New Book Spotlights Ghana’s Booming Art Scene | by Sagal Mohammed

Magnum: Next: The Story of Josef Koudelka

Social Issues

Mariposa bridge over the Caltrain commuter tracks on the edge of Dogpatch and a block from UCSF Women and Children's Hospital.  With the closing of safe injections sites and decreased teams doing needle collection, there are more needles.  San Francisco, California Photo: Robert Gumpert 14 November 2023

San Francisco Public Press: City Officials Lack Urgency to Prevent Overdose Deaths, Say Safe Consumption Proponents | by Sylvie Sturm

48 Hills: The new War on Drugs isn’t working any better than the old one did …. - But Breed and Jenkins are pushing to make it worse. We have seen this before and it ended very badly.

KRON4: SF supes approve privately funded safe injection sites | Alex Baker, Dan Kerman

SF Chronicle: Drug overdose death rates for every US county

Civil Easts: Food Insecure Veterans Are Less Likely to Seek Help | by Anne Marshall-Chambers, The White Horse

Washington Post: The AR-15’s destructive force: A rare look at the weapon’s impact | ilvia Foster-Frau, N. Kirkpatrick and Arelis R. Hernández 

Division Street

The San Francisco Standard: San Francisco Cleaned Up for APEC: See Before and After Photos

Hammer & Hope: Could We End Evictions? - A story on the revolutionary potential of direct action. | by KC Tenants

LA Times: AIDS Healthcare Foundation low-income tenants live in squalor, face eviction | by Liam Dillon, Doug Smith, Benjamin Oreskes, Photos Francine Orr, Graphics Aida Ylanan

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