7 Days 18 December - 24 December 2023
“Warning Neighborhood Watch” Regency Park area of Omaha, Nebraska. Photo Robert Gumpert 20 December 2014
Photography
John Vink: Cambodia, Sambok Chap
Blind: Brodbeck & de Barbuat: History of Photography Differently | by Sophie Bernard
Aperture: Aperture’s Must-Read Photography Features of 2023
AnOther: Matte, the Publication Spotlighting America’s Rising Photography Stars | by Violet Conroy
It’s Nice That: Review of the Year 2023: Top 25 Photography
Caitlin Chescoe: Belief & Truth, Inside the Freemasons
Blind: Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey | by Robert E. Gerhardt
Metal: Carlos Idun-Tawiah - Though the Lens of Hope | by Jenny Daphne Pitsillides
Document Scotland: Polo Mint City by Robbie Murrie
University of Birmingham: New exhibition shares art created in the UK’s Victorian prisons
BJP: Centre for British Photography seeks sustainable future after announcing London closure | by Diane Smyth
The Guardian: Amid Myanmar’s longest war, a people struggle to survive in the forest | Words and photographs by Matias Bercovich
Hyperallergic: Space Telescope Captures Radiant Close-Up of Uranus | by Elaine Veil
Lens Culture: Cultural Changes at the Coldest Place on Earth — A Photo Story from Yakutsk | Photographs by Alex Vasyliev - Essay by Marigold Warner
Blue Sky: Zaharia Cușnir - The Joy of Living
Blue Sky: Ada Trillo - La Caravana Del Diablo
Polka: Pierre Faure, Lauréat du Prix Polka du Photographe de L’Année 2023 | par Alain Genestar
NY Times: 2023 in Photos | Credits: Curation: Tanner Curtis, Jeffrey Henson Scales - Interviews: Dionne Searcey - Digital Design: Sean Catangui, Matt Ruby - Print Design: Mary Jane Callister, Felicia Vasquez - Production: Peter Blair, Eric Dyer, Natasha King, Wendy Lu, Jessica Schnall, Hannah Wulkan - Additional Production: Justin Baek - NY Times Director of Photography: Meaghan Looram
Culture, Art and Design
Great Salt Lake vista point, Utah. Photo Robert Gumpert November 30 November 2015
The Guardian: ‘I get to tell my story’: incarcerated journalists are making podcasts, going viral and winning awards | by Sam Levin
Rëșt ôf Wǒrld: Global gig worker slang, explained | by Zuha Siddiqui; Laís Martins; Lam Le; Kimberly Mutandiro
Washington Post: The Changing Face of America’s Favorite Sport: How race, politics, culture and money are shaping which kids abandon tackle football and which keep risking its toll. | by Dave Sheinin and Emily Giambalvo
Hyperallergic: The Wildest Art Stories of 2023 | by Valentina Di Liscia, Elaine Velie and Maya Pontone
Creative Boom: Peach Fuzz is Pantone's Colour of The Year for 2024, reflecting a need for kindness | by Katy Cowan
Design Boom: A look back at the developments of Saudi Arabia's futuristic NEOM project unveiled in 2023 | by Myrto Katsikopoulou
Design Boom: BIG's mindfulness city in bhutan envisions the world's first carbon-negative community | by Christina Petridou
The Bitter Southerner: The Best Stories of 2023
Artsy: The Artsy Vanguard 2023 - Artsy Editorial
Five Things Seen and Heard: Walking in a winter wonderland | Martin Colyer’s version
Creative Boom: Droga5 London's work for Royal Enfield leans into the glorious unpredictability of biking | by Tom May
Hyperallergic: New Show of Islamic Art Explores the Pleasure of Eating Together | by Matt Stromberg
The Guardian: A Republican commitment to inequality underscores Trump’s impunity | by Rebecca Solnit
Washington Post: Opinion - The Civil War history they didn’t want you to know | Howell Raines
It’s Nice That: Review of the Year 2023: Top 25 Features
Artsy: Why We’re Drawn to “Hysterical” Art | by Maxwell Rabb
Wallpaper: Designing Justice + Designing Spaces calls for radical reimagining in architecture | by Ellie Stathaki
The War Horse: She Stayed Quiet When Marines’ Wives Called Female Marines “Sluts.” Then She Met Joy | Liesel Kershul
Podcast
A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers: 220 - Year in Review 2023
Books
MACK: Ray's a Laugh (new edition) by Richard Billingham
MACK: Ray’s a Laugh: A Reader - Liz Jobey (ed.)
Metropolis: 2 Books for Your Winter Reading List - These must-read titles unpack the histories that shaped architecture and design today. | by Zach Mortice
MACK: The Corporeal Life of Seafaring | by Laleh Khalili
GOST: Thatcher’s Children | by Craig Easton
Other Stuff
Omaha, Nebraska. Photo Robert Gumpert 28 November 2015
The Guardian: BP halts oil and gas shipments through Red Sea after rebel attacks | by Alex Lawson
The NY Amsterdam News: Caricom mediators encouraged by Haiti talks | by Bert Wilkinson
Washington Post: Why reindeer eyes shine blue in the winter | by Allyson Chiu
Vanity Fair: Jack Smith May Have a Secret Weapon Against Donald Trump at the Supreme Court | by Christian Farias
Searchlight NM: Buried secrets, poisoned bodies - Why did a Truchas woman die with extraordinary amounts of plutonium in her body — and why was she illegally autopsied? For this reporter, the answers hit close to home. | by Alicia Inez Guzmán
LA Times: Copper thieves unplug 6th Street Bridge lights | by Salvador Hernandez
The Guardian: Why is Mark Zuckerberg building a private apocalypse bunker in Hawaii? | by Hamilton Nolan
Metropolis: What Architects and Designers Need to Know About Embodied Carbon
The Guardian: How the James Webb telescope is ‘set to find strange and bizarre worlds’ | by Robin McKie
Economy:
Poster for Silent Night, a John Woo Christmas action movie. Potrero Ave at 22nd, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 22 December 2023
Washington Post: From dropout to ‘king of the cannibals’: How Sam Altman took over Silicon Valley | by Elizabeth Dwoskin, Marc Fisher and Nitasha Tiku
DW: Red Sea attacks: How will global trade be affected? | by Nik Martin
BBC: India drone strike: Cargo ship attacked off Gujarat coast | by Phelan Chatterjee
Labor
ProPublica: Railroad Supervisors Go to Extremes to Hide Worker Injuries | by Topher Sanders, Dan Schwartz, Danelle Morton, Gabriel Sandoval and Jessica Lussenhop
Rëșt ôf Wǒrld: Vietnam’s taxi drivers fight app drivers, wear their uniforms to steal customers | by Lam Le
MACK: The Corporeal Life of Seafaring - Laleh Khalili
The Guardian: ‘It was too dangerous for white men’: the racist history of pearl diving in Australia | by Kelly Burke
Catalyst: John Womack - How Can Workers Organize Against Capital Today?’s | by Benjamin Y. Fong
Teen Vogue: Union-Friendly Gifts for the Pro-Labor Person in Your Life | by Kim Kelly
Social Issues
An unhoused encampment on San Bruno between Division and Alameda Street. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 01 August 2023
Shelter built from scrap with solar panel on Evans Ave near Rankin. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 23 June 2023
LA Times: The fight to move the Catholic Church in America to the right — and the little-known O.C. lawyer behind it | by Harriet Ryan
The Guardian: US archbishop secretly backed bid to free priest convicted of raping child | by Ramon Antonio
Washington Post: Deadline set for claims against Baltimore archdiocese for sexual abuse | by Michelle Boorstein
NY Times: Pope Francis Allows Priests to Bless Same-Sex Relationshiops | by Jason Horowitz
NY Times: With a Deadline Looming, the United Methodist Church Breaks Up - A quarter of the denomination’s churches have left, as the faith divides over L.G.B.T.Q. policies. | by Ruth Graham
LA Times: As border extremism goes mainstream, vigilante groups take a starring role | by Keegan Hamilton
Vanity Fair: Overturning Roe Has Been a Horror Show | by Molly Jong-Fast
Portside: A Progressive Democracy Movement To Defeat Fascism | by Thom Harmann
SF Chronicle: Nonprofits accuse S.F. firm of squeezing them out of historic building | by Laura Waxmann
LA Times: Man who spent nearly 50 years in prison is ruled innocent | by Ken Miller
Washington Post: Written in the Wood | by Sarah Kaplan, Bonnie Jo Mount, Emily Wright and Frank Hulley-Jones
Division Street
Shannen O'Brien, 34: "I've been on the street my whole life, 6 years in San Francisco. The city got a hold of me." 13th Street just east of South Van Ness in a tent owned by another person. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert 05 March 2023
Streetsheet: Coalition on Homelessness et al vs. San Francisco: Lawyers Make the Case for Stopping Sweeps | by TJ Johnston
LA Times: Why homelessness looks different in Washington, D.C., than L.A. | by Noah Bierman, David G. Savage
Courthouse News Service: Federal judge blocks Berkeley from closing homeless encampment | by Michael Genaro
SF Public Press: 2023 Is San Francisco’s Deadliest Year on Record for Drug Overdoses | by Sylvie Sturm
Washington Post: Record homelessness comes as a decline in volunteers strains nonprofits | by Petula Dvorak
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