7 Days: 25 December - 31 December 2023
Immigrant rights demonstration in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 10 April 2006
Photography
Devil's Slide Trail along the old Highway 1, a bit south of Pacifica, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 29 December 2023
Field of View: The Prisoners of Wars - Photographs as evidence; photographs as propaganda. | by Patrick Witty
Bloomberg: Google Can’t Catch All the AI Images. Can You? | by Parmy Olson and Elaine He
NY Times: A.I. Is the Future of Photography. Does That Mean Photography Is Dead? | by Gideon Jacobs
AnOther: The Best Photos of 2023: Finding Comfort in Community | text Niki Colet
i-D: The best photo stories about subculture & style we published this year
i-D: The best photo stories about home & belonging we published this year
BJP: A year in words and images, from the best shows to the most vital photojournalism
Lenscratch: Jesse Rieser: Christmas In America: Happy Birthday, Jesus! | by Aline Smithson
Photolucida: 2023 Critical Mass Awards
LensCulture: 15 Most Popular Photo Stories from LensCulture in 2023
Magnum: The Photographers’ Selection: 2023 | Cristina de Middel curates
Photo Phnom Penh: Chen Chun-Lu
Conscientious: Was Ray a Laugh? | by Jörg M. Colberg
Aeon: An augmented-reality filter reveals the hidden movements all around us | video by Posy
The Guardian: The photographs that defined 2023 – and the stories behind them | by Sarah Gilbert and Emine Saner
Metal: Stan Squirewell - The Disc Jockey of History | words Zola Rowlatt
Culture, Art and Design
Waves crashing over the retaining wall at Rockaway Beach Avenue in Pacifica, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 29 December 2023
Slate: House Speaker Mike Johnson told a Christian nationalist event that God had prepared him to be Moses | by Molly Olmstead
New York Intelligencer: 26 Not-Fun Facts About Speaker Mike Johnson | by Margaret Hartmann and Matt Stieb
SF Chronicle: The guide who gives the smallest San Francisco tours loves the city | by Peter Hartlaub
McSweeney’s: We Wrote Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment, and We Damn Well Meant What We Said | by Veronica Kane
Hyperallergic: The Politics of the Lowrider | by Isabel Ling
JSTOR - Daily: When ranchers began reporting incidents of mutilated cattle, the ensuing panic fed both conspiracy theories and a growing cynicism about the government. | by Livia Gershon
Hyperallergic: The Creative Power of Mischief | by Emily Wilson
Flashbak: Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
thebluemoment: 2023: The best bits | by Richard Williams
NY Times: 2023: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics
JSTOR - Daily: Free Wheeling: Shopping Carts and Culture | by Katrina Gulliver
Metal: Andalusia Corrigan - From Clay We Are, and Into Clay We Shall Become | words Jesús Nebreda, photographer Chloe Horseman
Podcast
Immigrant rights demonstration in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 10 April 2006
Points South: Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen | producer Sara A. Lewis
Points South: The Counternarrative | producer Sara A. Lewis
10 FPS: Episode 87: Rian Dundon (Documentary Photography)
Books
Wired: Our Favorite Photography Books of 2023
LA Taco: The 37 Best Books About Los Angeles Culture (and Beyond) Published In 2023 | by Mike Sonksen
Metropolis: David Gissen on Constructing an Architecture of Disability | by Jaxson Leilah Stone
Print: “AFROSPORT – The Book” Explores the Global Impact of African Sports | by Charlotte Beach
Headbanging Headlines
Huffpost: Trump Camp Kicks Up A Stink Over Adam Kinzinger's Claim Ex-President Smells
The Cut: Kim Kardashian Filled Her Tub With Hot Cocoa for Christmas
The Guardian: Ohio grand jury to decide whether to charge woman who miscarried for ‘abuse of a corpse’
Hindustan Times: Donald Trump's Christmas wish, 'May they rot in Hell'
Other Stuff
The Dial: The American Origins of Israel’s Armament Campaign | by Rafi Reznik
El País: Dearborn: The Arab heart of the United States is abandoning Biden over the war on Gaza | by Macarena Vidal Liy
Prospect: All that remains | by Avi Shlaim
New York Review: The Long War on Gaza | by Sara Roy
Economy
El País: US military operation in the Red Sea sparks tensions between Madrid and Washington | by Miguel Gonazález
Metropolis: Pittsburgh’s Mill 19 Is a Postindustrial Innovation Hu | by Justin R. Wolf
Japan Times: China's BYD set to overtake Tesla as world’s most popular EV maker | by Danny Lee
Aeon: A silken web | by Peter Frankopan, Marie-Louise Nosch, Feng Zhao. Edited by: Sam Haselby
Labor
A SE Asian immigrant family in their Tenderloin District SRO (Single Room Occupancy). San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 1987
USA Today: Why This Ironworker Encourages Other Women to Take Up Skilled Trades |
Committee to Protect Journalists: Israel- Gaza War
Bloomberg: Google Can’t Catch All the AI Images. Can You? | by Parmy Olson and Elaine He
SF Chronicle: Pizza Hut franchises in California lay off all delivery drivers
Nautilus: A Day in the Life of a Fossil Preparator | by Caitlin Donahue Wylie
NY Times: They’re Paid Billions to Root Out Child Labor in the U.S., Why Do They Fail? | by Hannah Dreier
NY Times: Where Migrant Children Are Living, and Often Working, in the U.S. | by By Eli Murray, Hannah Dreier and K.K. Rebecca Lai
Metal: SAG-AFTRA - Changing More Positions Than One | Words Sabrina Roman
Social Issues
Children working the Smoking Mountain trash heep where an army of refuge collectors live and make their living. Manila, Philippines. Photo Robert Gumpert February 1986
Devil's Slide Trail along the old Highway 1, a bit south of Pacifica, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 29 December 2023
NY Times: The Unsettling Truth at the Heart of the Giuliani Case | by Andy Kroll
The Guardian: Ohio grand jury to decide whether to charge woman who miscarried for ‘abuse of a corpse’
Washington Post: Is climate change speeding up? Here’s what the science says. | by Chris Mooney and Shannon Osaka
Washington Post: How these homes in the hottest places keep cool without AC | by Philip Kennicott and Sima Diab
TPM: Republicans Launch Two-Pronged Attack Against Voting Rights Act | by Kate Riga
Division Street
Washington Post: Jury acquits homeless man accused of beating ex-San Francisco official | by David Ovalle
Moneywise: 50 is the age when many Californians experience homelessness for the first time. Why there’s a rise … | by Sabina Wex
The Guardian: England has ‘twice as many empty homes as families stuck in B&Bs’ | by Peter walker
SF Chronicle: Hundreds of S.F. housing units for the homeless still sit vacant despite reforms. Here's why | by Joaquin Palomino
Newsweek: Opinion: Study Veterans To Understand Rising Homelessness | by Tom Murphy and Kathyn Monet
PBS NewsHour: Chronic homelessness is at an all-time high. Here’s why it continues to climb | by Hannah Grabenstein
PBS: How a ‘perfect storm’ of issues is causing a sharp rise in homelessness | by John Yang; by Keisha Young
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