03 July - 09 July 2023
Today all the photos are from two very short trips I made to Braddock, Pennsylvania - one in 1986 and one in 1992.
Braddock from the bridge - 1992: The Edgar Thomson Steel Works (in the background), located in the small steel town of Braddock, near Pittsburgh. It has been active since 1875. The ET Works, also known as the Mon Valley Works, currently has two blast furness still working: #1 and 3. (From Wikipedia) - Photo: Robert Gumpert
Photography
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Laurent Ballesta: Wild life photographer
The Guardian: Fight the power! Scenes of protest
PhMuseum: Everyone Has A Plan Until They Get Punched In The Mouth | by Diego Saldiva
Field of View: The Only Color Photo of the First Nuclear Explosion | by Patrick Witty
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The New Yorker: The Lower East Side’s Folk Historian
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Trent Harlan Bozeman: Failure to Appear
Mahmoud Khattab: Stories
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CNN: Nothing says summer in New York quite like Coney Island | Photos: Aristide Economopoulos, story by Kyle Almond
Culture, Art and Design
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The Brown Journal of World Affairs: How Poster Art Of The “Long 1960s” Fueled International Solidarity | by Lincoln Cushing
Nautilus: Do Whales Have Culture? | by David Rothenberg
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Labor
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The Guardian: ‘More work in fewer hours’: LA’s hotel workers detail backbreaking conditions | by Maanvi Singh
Braddock, PA. is a small, and still alive, steel town near Pittsburgh. It is the home of US Steel’s Edgar Thompson Works. an active3 mill since 1875. It is currently owned by U.S. Steel and is also known as Mon Valley Works. Currently, two blast furnaces (Furnaces No. 1 and No. 3) continue in operation.
Braddock is where now Senator John Fetterman became an activist and Braddock Mayor before running for and winning Lt Governorship of Pennsylvania, serving from 2019 until 2023 when he won his race for the US Senator. (From Wikipedica)
These photos were taken on two very short visits to Braddock. One in 1986, and then again in 1992.
Braddock, PA. Homes above US Steel ET Works at the base of the hill. 1986 - Photo: Robert Gumpert
Braddock, PA. 1986 - Photo: Robert Gumpert
Braddock, PA. Coming home from afternoon shopping. 1986 - Photo: Robert Gumpert
Braddock, PA. Standing in the doorway of Hymie's Bar, across the street from the ET Works of US Steel on a rainy afternoon 1986 - Photo: Robert Gumpert
Braddock, PA. Friends 1986 - Photo: Robert Gumpert
Homes above the USS Edgar Thompson Workers in Braddock, PA. 1992 - Photo: Robert Gumpert
Braddock, PA. 1992 - Photo: Robert Gumpert
Braddock, PA. Hymies Bar across from the Edgar Thompson Steel Works. 1992 - Photo: Robert Gumpert
Braddock, PA. just off the “high street”, large devoid of businesses. 1992 - Photo: Robert Gumpert
Homes in Braddock, PA. with USS Edgar Thompson Works in the background. 1992 - Photo: Robert Gumpert
Braddock, a ghostly “high street” and US Steel’s ET works. 1992: The Edgar Thomson Steel Works, located in the small steel town of Braddock, near Pittsburgh. It has been active since 1875. The ET Works, also known as the Mon Valley Works, currently has two blast furness still working: #1 and 3. (From Wikipedia) - Photo: Robert Gumpert
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Social Issues
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Division Street
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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
26 June - 2 July 2023
The Golden Gate, Pacific Ocean as seen from Point Lobos. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 28 June 2023
Photography
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Culture, Art and Design
Point Lobos. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 28 June 2023
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Creative Boom: Oliver Perry's charming illustrations recreate the magic of vintage New Yorker cartoons | by Dom Carter
AnOther: Chloe Sherman’s new book and Berlin exhibition displays her raw documentary photos of femmes, butches, punks and studs in the city’s vibrant Latinx Mission District | text Madeleine Pollard
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Quartz: The US sanctioned gold and diamond companies that illegally fund the Wagner Group | by Ananya Bhattacharya
El País: Historic Arizona mining town backs copper project on land that Native American groups say is sacred
NY Times: What Frederick Douglass Knew That Trump and DeSantis Don’t | by Jamelle Bouie
El País: A telescope in Antarctica detects the first galactic neutrinos | by Nunño Domínguez
Nautilus: A Supermassive Test for Einstein’s Famous Theory | by Belize Ferrus and Chiara Mingarelli
Labor
UAW strike at Sterling Radiator, Westfield, MA. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1981
LA Times: Influencer Caryn Marjorie is competing with her own AI to chat with fans | by Brian Contreras
Orion: The Day the Lake Took the Edmund Fitzgerald | by Martha Lundin
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The Nation: Contract Talks by Teamsters and the UAW Have the Potential to Change Our Politics | by Jane Mcalevey
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The Guardian: DeSantis says as US president he would eliminate IRS and other agencies
The Guardian: Rightwingers say ‘pink-haired liberals’ are killing New York pizza
Podcast
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BBC Sounds: Outlook: ‘Sold’ for a pint of whiskey: Lonnie Holley’s mythical life, Part 2
A Small Voice: Ben Smith speaks with French documentary photographer Bertrand Meunier
Books
Lens Culture: The Iranian Revolution in Photobooks | by Hannah Darabi
Social Issues
McSweeney’s: You Don’t Need to Bring a Gift to You Supreme Court Hearing. But if You Must, Here is My Justice Registry | by Alex O’Connor
The Guardian: Soaring number of rough sleepers in London ‘extremely alarming’ | by Robert Booth
Washington Post: A comic goes undercover with bigots. You’ll want to hear how it went | by Peter Marks
LA Times: Fights, beatings and a birth: Videos smuggled out of L.A. jails reveal violence, neglect | by Keri Blakinger
SF Chronicle: S.F. drag queen speaks out after Google dials back company presence in Pride event | by Chase DiFeliciantonio
Searchlight New Mexico: Behind Farmington’s mass shooting
A small town near the Navajo Nation grapples with its violent past — and tragedies of the present | by Joshua Bowling
LA Times: California's for-profit immigrant detention ban failed. | by Andrea Castillo
The Guardian: A history of living conditions in the East End – in pictures | by Sarah Gilbert
Searchlight New Mexico: Atomic blast downwinders in New Mexico will finally win compensation if Tularosa native has her way | by Lindsay Fendt, Photos: Nadal Soroker
Division Street
Message/s written on a window sill. Heron Street at Berwick Place. Photos: Robert Gumpert 22 June 2023
NY Times: New York’s Shelters Were Packed. Now They Are Bursting at the Seams | by Michael Wilson, Matthew Haag and Mihir Zaveri
El País: Homelessness soars in L.A. despite mayor’s crusade to reduce it | by Luis Pablo Beauregard
LA Times: L.A. reacts with frustration to homelessness count | by David Zahniser, Dakota Smith, Rebecca Ellis
Division Street: Pages 106-107
What’s your typical day like?
Destiny: A typical day would be we wake up in the morning, like 6 in the morning from the shelter. We get the girls ready for school. We have business for about 3 hour, and then we go relax before I have to go to work, ‘cause I work from 3 to 11.
JR: Like she said, wake up, get our daughters ready for school. Take them to school as a family and then whatever business we have throughout the day, whether it’s coming to a Compass meeting, or a housing workshop, or looking at an apartment ‘tell about 1 o’clock. Then she’s gets ready for work, she goes to work, I pickup the girls from school and go back to the shelter around 7. But then we have to wake up at 11 and go pickup mom from work so I have to get the girls up and rustle them to the car, go pickup mom and then come back to the shelter. If we had a place they are almost at the age that we could leave them and I could run and pickup mom and they’d be OK for 30 minutes. But you couldn’t do that at the shelter.
Destiny: You do have to worry about your (shelter) slot being taken although since we’ve been there, which hasn’t been that long, we haven’t run into that problem just yet. But it is something we got to keep in mind because some nights they are full and it’s scary.
JR: We’re kind of fortunate because we have two vehicles so one of them we use as storage and that’s pretty much where all our stuff is. We just have a bag of cloths for the girls to get dressed and go to school with, and a bag of dirty laundry.
Would life be much easier if you had a place?
Destiny: Yes. In so many ways. I feel like I would be fulfilling my obligation as a mother to my daughters. We would have a place to cook, to feel clean, take a shower, a bath. The girls could have some friends over. We can do things together; play games, and from there we would be able to get them more involved in things they want to do. One of them wants to do some kind of dancing or soccer and things just go on from there. We would start living life normally. I’ll be able to cook for my family. The girls could have a party for their birthday. I would have a place to call home, somewhere to work from so that we can better our lives from there.
JR: It’d be easier because I wouldn’t have to worry about where the girls are going to shower everyday. I’m kind of protective like that so I wouldn’t have to worry about the bathrooms situation because they got to get up at night in the shelter to go to the bathroom. I’d like them to have their own doors to close, you know.
See more of my photobook “Division Street”. 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
19 - 25 June 2023
8th Street and Bryant a billboard advertising a “Data+AI Summit convention overlooks the new Porsche dealership on the left, a cardboard and tarp home in the meridian, and Airbnb just down the 8th on the right hand side. 22 June 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Photography
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Journal of Images and Culture: Photography and the Holocaust: The Nuremberg Trials | Robert Hirsch
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Blind: Ukraine: A War Crime | by by Robert E. Gerhardt
Lensculture: Ready for Surprise: Joel Meyerowtiz Interview 2020 | Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz - Interview by Jim Casper
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Photojournalism News: “My goal is to present the people I photograph in a way that is fair to reality” | Nezih Tavlas chats with John Moore
The Guardian: Journeys to Hope: archives of the Windrush generation
i-D: Daido Moriyama’s life in photos | by Alex Merola
Vasantha Yogananthan: Mystery Street
Lens Culture: Announcing the 48 Critics’ Choice Award Winners for 2023
Parisa Azadi: Parisa Azadi
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Document: In Daniel Arnold’s New York, everyone is God
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Culture, Art and Design
Wall mural on Heron Street at 8th. San Francisco, CA. Art by Serge Gay Jr. 22 June 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Print: Living History: Connecting the Threads Between Juneteenth and the Story of Black Graphic Designers | by Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller
The White Review: The Forgotten Angel of History | by Yvonne Singh
John Edwin Mason: Henry Martin, the Clan Barbecue, and the Power of Photography
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Dezeen: "Nothing has been built yet in Africa" says Venice Golden Lion-winner Demas Nwoko | by Rupert Bickersteth
Huck: How Trump used organized misogyny to end the right to safe, legal abortion in the US | Text by Siân Norris
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Texas Monthly: Everyone in Stephenville Thought They Knew Who Killed Susan Woods | Bryan Burrough
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Aeon: Here’s to blue foods | by Madhura Rao, edited by Sam Haselby
Texas Monthly: Everyone in Stephenville Thought They Knew Who Killed Susan Woods | by Bryan Burrough
Print: Are You a Moody Person? | by Tom Guarriello
El País: UN deems international financial system ‘outdated, dysfunctional and unfair’ during Paris summit for debt relief for Global South | by Marc Bassets
Labor
Part of the expansion of San Francisco’s largest wastewater treatment facility, the Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant. Evans Street at Rankin. 18 June 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
“The new facilities will produce higher-quality biosolids, capture and treat odors more effectively, and maximize biogas utilization. In addition, the project will locate the digesters farther away from existing residences and make visual improvements in and around the SEP.” Webcor website project description
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The Guardian: Workers sue secretive elite club Bohemian Grove for wage theft | by Michael Sainato
The Texas Tribune: Texas workers' water break rules will be eliminated as temperatures rise | by FRANCISCO URANGA AND ERIN DOUGLAS
The Irish News: I Dream in Photos captures Pulitzer-winner Cathal McNaughton reckoning with psychological impact of photojournalism | by David Roy
Headbanging Headlines:
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Podcast
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Social Issues
Let “AI” do it. Advert on a vacant building, 7th near Brannan Streets. 22 June 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
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Reuters: Texas governor signs law shutting diversity offices at public universities
Grist: The former dumping ground that became a flourishing food ecosystem | by Emily Nonko
Library of Congress: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938
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Division Street
“Housing at the end of Berwick Place, and next to a new apartment, live/work and commercial building. San Francisco, California. 22 June 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
SF Chronicle: San Francisco’s Unhoused Say City’s Generosity Is Drying Up | by Astrid Kane
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From the book “Division Street” - Pages 26-27
“The tent is privacy. It’s safety. It’s home.” Brandy Ericksen, who lives in a tent on Dore Street. 8 April, 2021
“Where ever you put your tent, since you were the first one, that’s your property. Even if by law you don’t have the permission, in our own way in the streets, it is our property. The reason we say it is, is so that people don’t touch it. So people don’t make a mistake because you never know what could happen. It could be that at a particular person’s place he might be a short fuse, and he could come out and just hurt you.” Isaac Hernández, 43. Homeless for about 3 years. 23 April 2021
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
12 - 18 June 2023
Patrick Riley, 42 on Selby Street where he lives with Amelia Mustain, 34 and their 3 dogs in a camper. 16 June 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
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Culture, Art and Design
Union Street, half block from Polk. San Francisco, California 14 June 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
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Washington Post: DeSantis allies set up a school to train a $100 million door-knocking army | by Michael Scherer
Washington Post: Ancient species Homo naledi may have buried its dead, sparking debate | by Mark Johnson
Propublica: How Arizona Stands Between Tribes and Their Water | by Mark Olalde and Umar Farooq (ProPublica) and Anna V. Smith, High Country News
Washington Post: Phosphorous, crucial for life, found on Saturn's moon Enceladus | by Joel Achenbach
NY Times: The Radical Strategy Behind Trump’s Promise to ‘Go After’ Biden | by Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage and Maggie Haberman
Washington Post: Opinion | Cornel West’s confusing approach to Black liberation | by Karen Attain
Labor
IndieWire: The Quiet Crisis of the Documentary Filmmaking Community | by tom Roston
Washington Post: Demand for EV mineral skyrockets, leaving miners largely overlooked | by Rachel Chason and Ilan Godfrey
Washington Post: A barista fought to unionize her Starbucks. Now she’s out of a job. | by Greg Jaffe
Deadline: ‘Doctor Who’ Showrunner Russell T. Davies Talks Writers Strike At London Protest: “What Happens In America Happens Here” | by Max Goldbart, Zac Ntim
Headbanging Headlines:
CBS News: Woman declared dead knocks on coffin during her own wake in Ecuador: “It gave us a fright”
Fox Business: Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino says site’s goal is to be ‘world’s most accurate real-time information source’
Reuters: Ex-Harvard morgue manager indicted for trafficking body parts
The New Republic: Republicans Declare Banning Universal Free School Meals a 2024 Priority
Podcast
The Moth: Live and learn
Books
Photo-eye: Ralph Ellison: Photographer - Book of the Week: Selected by Blake Andrews
Conscientious: Gluckauf; photographs and text by Bertien van Manen; texts by Fabian de Kloe/Patricia van den Ende and Marcia Luyten; 168 pages; FW:Books; 2023
Social Issues
Bus stop advert, Union and Polk. 14 June 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Inside the Games: Report warns more that 100,000 could be homeless in LA by 2028 Olympics | by Patrick Burke
SF Chronicle: 12,000 architects came to S.F. This is what they said about the housing crisis | by John King
The New Yorker: What we can learn from London’s smoke-filled skies | by Adam Gopnik
PetaPixel: The ‘World’s First AI Photographer’ Undercuts Real Photographers | by Matt Growcoot
48hills: Mayor doubles down on arresting drug users, refuses to move on wellness centers | by Tim Redmond
Christine Science Monitor: Reparations debate: Mending the past, forging the future
LA Times: 'All we received was abandonment' — Migrants sent to Sacramento by DeSantis speak out | by Mackenzie Mays
The Irish Times: How has the mass drowning of people become in any way normalised? | by Sally Hayden
The Tennessean: Garth Brooks: Why Bud Light and inclusivity are welcome at Nashville bar | by Joyce Orlando
SF Chronicle: Thousands of California cops could be decertified under new law | by Sophia Bollag
The Guardian: ‘More extreme, more violent’: experts’ warning over khaki-clad Patriot Front | by Adam Gabbatt
Propublica: A Grad Student Found the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S | by Jennifer Berry Hawes, photography by Gavin McIntyre for ProPublica
NPR: Slave cases are still cited as good law. This team is trying to change that | by Rachel Treisman
Aeon: Asians were visiting the west coast of America in 1587 | by Diego Javier Luis; edited by Sam Haselby
Division Street
SF Chronicle: S.F. Mayor Breed defends controversial move to arrest drug users | by Mallory Moench
LA Times: May was worst month for fentanyl deaths in San Francisco since 2020 | by Noah Goldberg
From Page 76-77 of “Division Street”:
“(An RV or trailer) is definitely a lot safer. Anything that could happen with being in a tent on a sidewalk – you could get hit by a car, people could run up and kick it down, any number of things. The weather - I used to stay in a tent and when it rains out here it’s horrible. You’re socking wet, you are never dry, for as long as it’s raining you’re not dry. You’re feet are wet constantly, you get boot rot. Being able to get out of the weather is major. It’s a place I can keep my stuff and know it’s not going to get stolen. No one is just going to go in my place – anyone can just cut a hole in a tent and just go in there and take your stuff. Or DPW can come and take it and you won’t ever get it back – they say they “bag and tag” things but we all know they don’t. Being in a RV is a
setup. It kind of helps your pride.”
“We people, we people just like any other person they (the housed) come across. Where just less fortunate or had a bad break, but we’re still people. A lot of times people drive by and they get to staring or gawking at you. Or in passing you, you might ask a person something and they’ll look at you like you less than a person because you stay on the streets. We still people. I think everybody deserves to be treated with respect, everybody deserves to be treated like they’re human. Just because we’re out on the streets doesn’t mean we’re not human beings.
You see some of the strangeness stuff out here. You wouldn’t expect but you would be amazed by some of things that you see and you hear from people that don’t live in the streets. The way that they talk about you, the way that they look at you, afraid to touch you. I understand the whole germaphobe thing but some people come out here that work on these
outreach vans and buses and they’ll be handing out their little stuff but they’re handing it to you like, .. it’s hard to explain. I just want people to know although homeless we deserve to be treated like people. It’s sad when the people we look to for help is the same people that’s hurting us. To fire a shot off at DPW (to mention), they entrusted city workers. I don’t get how they’re robbing from poor people. They’re robbing from people that are very less fortunate than they are. I don’t understand how they do it an wake up with a straight face like they did nothin’ wrong. I’d been whipped clean by them people more times than I care to even remember.
Just because you’re homeless that don’t mean you can’t have nice things; you know what I mean? I had a boat. They destroyed it. I had a box, one of those house boxes that we were building, had tools in it; it never got “bagged and tagged”, it never got taken and stored like it should have. It just came up missing and to this day nobody knows what happened to it.
I just feel like we should be treated equally even though we ain’t on the same level or we ain’t in the same playing field. We are in the same playing field because we still people.”
Patrick Riley and Amelia Mustain 2 November 2019, living in an encampment of RV dwellers on Jerrold Street near Quint Street. The entire encampment was moved out when Jerrold was closed early 2020 as part of the Southeast Treatment Plant upgrade to “make it look better, smell better and work better”
Patrick Riley and Amelia Mustain, together about 6 months in November of 2019 are still together and have been living on Selby Street just south of Evans since moving their trailer, 2 boats, and 3 dogs from the Jerrold Street RV encampment when it was closed down in early 2022. Photographed 16 June 2023. Their new interview will appear soon.
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
05 – 11 June 2023
Funeral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti 1990. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Photography
Coffee and Donuts Small ‘zines: Shelter
BBC: The photo that made the plastics crisis personal – photos by Chris Jordan | by Anna Turns
LA Taco: Hundreds Gather in Little Tokyo to Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots | by Janette Villafana
The Guardian: The church at the end of the world | by John Bartlett and Sean Smith
The Guardian: From Belfast to the Karakoram mountains: the photography of Alain Le Garsmeur | by Alain le Garsmeur
Aperture: The Quest to Protect the Father of Ivorian Photography | by Tiana Reid
Lens Culture: Finding Common Ground In Street Photography | by Erik Vroons - Photos: Joel Hijwegen, Julie Hrudová, Bart Koetsier and Rolf van Root
Mírame y sé color: Matt Black
Dazed: A first glimpse of Jim Goldberg’s confessional new photo book | by Emily Dinsdale
Hyperallergic: Photographer Frank Stewart Gets His First Museum Retrospective | by Briana Ellis-Gibbs
Conscientious: Against Narrative
Fraction: Issue 167 - 15th Anniversary Group Exhibition
The Art Newspaper: The Black studio photographers of 19th and early 20th-century America come into focus | by Karen Chernick
Document: Finding the words to reconnect with a lost cultural identity | by Megan Hollander, Photos & interviews: Elinor Key
Culture, Art and Design
Downtown Los Angeles, 2021. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Print: What are Madison Avenue fashion designers trying to tell us? | by Ellen Shapiro
Aeon: Matrimony and the market | by Daniel Tutt - Edited by Sam Haselby
Print-the Daily Heller: Who Would Have Thought Tolerance Would Be Cool? | by Seven Heller
The White Review: Yon don’t think God is sexy? | by Philippa Snow
Other Stuff
ProPublica: A Massive Oil Spill Helped One Billionaire Avoid Paying Income Tax for 14 Years | by Jesse Eisinger, Paul Kiel and Jeff Ernsthausen
NY Times: A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom | by Yiren Lu
London Review of Books: All in Slow Motion: On the trials for the murder of Nikki Allan | by Dani Garavelli
Washington Post: In a geologic triumph, scientists drill a window into Earth’s mantle | by Carolyn Y. Johnson
The London Review of Books: The Rich List | by Andrew O’Hagan
The New Yorker: The Trump indictment speaks for itself | by Susan B. Glasser
Labor
San Francisco, California, 2012. Photo: Robert Gumpert
In These Times: The War Over No Strike Clauses Has a New Front Line | by Hamilton Nolan
Washington Post: ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they're dog walkers and HVAC techs. | by Pranshu Verma and Gerrit De Vynck
BBC: The workers quitting digital nomadism | by Ellen Nguyen
Stansbury Forum: The Story Conference | by Gary Phillips
Stansbury Forum: The 2023 Oakland Teachers’ Strike: An Assessment | by Heath Madam
Headbanging Headlines:
NY Times: Tragedy Strikes a Boat Full of Spies, and Conspiracy Theories Mount
The Guardian: Virgin Mary apparitions ‘not always real’, says Pope after statue row
The Edge: Billionaire Vampire-in-Training Injects Himself With Teenage Blood to Reverse Biological Age
WTRF.com: West Virginia State Police Investigation: 10 more minors, 42 more women in total to sue West Virginia State Police over hidden cameras
Podcast
BBC Outlook: ‘Don’t anger the monster’. parts 1 & 2 | Rowena Chiu
Social Issues
AP: A boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees vanished. A frantic phone call helped untangle the mystery. | by Kristen Gelineau
SWI: Ten years on from Needle Park | by Imogen Folks
ProPublica:Ryan Busse Explains Roots of the U.S. Gun Violence Epidemic | by Corey G. Johnson
Mission Local: SF sheriffs to deploy 130 deputies for drug arrests | by Griffin Jones
SF Chronicle: CNN told Couper Orona's story and treated it like SF poverty porn | by Soleil Ho
NY Times: They Fled San Francisco. The A.I. Boom Pulled Them Back | by Erin Griffith
Washington Post: These academics studied lies spread by Trump. Now Rep. Jim Jordan, GOP allies amplify scrutiny of top disinfo researchers | by Naomi Nix and Joseph Menn
Texas Observer: The Legislature Ignores Suffering Pregnant Texans | by Sara Hutchinson
NY Times: What Happened When a Brooklyn Neighborhood Policed Itself for Five Days | by Maria Cramer, Photos: Amir Hamja
Division Street
Cover of the little ‘zine Shelter
KQED: What Happens When Libraries Stop Sharing Wi-Fi? | by Sydney Johnson
Invisible People: Successful Solutions That Do Not Criminalize Homelessness | by Cynthia Griffith
Coffee and Donuts Small ‘zines: Shelter
From “Division Street”, the book. Page 71:
Peter Marshall Qualls, 47
Without a home: “I’ve been without a place since I was ten and half years old” Date: 10 February 2019 | Place: 7th and Brannan, across from Adobe
“Home means a place where people come together and work in partnership, to share their experiences, and hopes with other people in the community, so that financial brackets that each of them are a part of don’t overburden them, or cause people to be extremely poor. So we share time together and trust one another and in turn give each other security and hope.”
See more of “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
29 May - 04 June 2023
Art’s Cafe. San Francisco, California 31 May 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Photography
Huck: Builder Levy - A visual history of resistance in New York City | by Miss Rosen
The New Yorker: Fashion and politics in Barkley L. Hendricks’s pictures | by Chris Wiley
Leica Camera Blog: Viktoria Sorochinski’s Poltavaland series
Lenscratch: Center Development Grant: Brandon Kapelow – Somewhere I belong | by Aline Smithson
BJP: ‘It was social curiosity as much as anything else’: David Moore on the real England of the 1980s | by Louise Benson
Dezeen: Pedro Pegenaute photographs Spanish “foodscapes” for Venice Architecture Biennale | by Amy Frearson
Wallpaper – Photography: Kent Andreasen on failed memories, the fear of AI, and keeping things simple | by Sophie Gladstone
Field of View: The Impending Doom of AI | by Patrick Witty
International Women’s Media Foundation: 2023 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Awards
Culture, Art and Design
Medium: Exploring Japan’s Art Islands | by A. D. McCormick
The Guardian: ‘I thought: This boy’s gone, we can’t reach him any more’ – the tragedy and beauty of Nick Drake, by those closest to him | by Richard Morton Jack
The New Yorker: A New Way to Hear Some Revelatory Charlie Parker Bootlegs | by Richard Brody
Wallpaper*: Formafantasma’s Oltre Terra explores our relationship with wool | by Giovanna Dunmall
Then There Was Us: Audio terrains: The eclectic practice of Andy Abbott | by Wes Foster
JSTOR Daily: The Gumshoes Who Took On the Klan | by Matthew Wills
Print: What matters to Fe Amarante | by Debbie Millman
Aeon: The art of rules | by Sherri Irvin – Edited by Sam Dresser
NY Times: A Surprising Stage for Dance: The Subway Platform | by Gia Kourlas – Videos: Angele Silvio Vasta
Pysche: All you need to know to start skipping stones like a pro | by Julie Benda – edited by Christian Jarrett
Pysche: Why ancient Mesopotamians buried their dead beneath the floor | by Nicola Laneri – edited by Sam Haselby
McSweeney’s: A day in the life of a woke third-grade teacher, as imagined by a far-right politician | by Ashley Ingle
Other Stuff
Texas Observer: Paxton is burning – Has accountability finally come to Texas? Don’t hold your breath. | by Nancy Goldstein
The Guardian: Vacant skyscrapers, empty trains: can San Francisco once again reinvent itself? | by Isabeau Doucet
Washington Post:Texas Republicans pass voting bills targeting large Democratic county | by Patrick Marley
TPM: QAnon Shaman Is Out Of Prison And Being Treated Like A Hero | David Kurtz
NY Times: L.A.’s Bus Stops Need Shade. Instead, They Got La Sombrita | by Jesus Jiménez and Livia Albeck-Ripka
Bulwark+|Special Project: The Coruption of Lindsey Graham | by Will Saletan
London Review of Books: Open the pod bay doors | by Liam Shaw
LA Times: L.A. County sheriff's deputy accused of being in gang reveals tattoo | by Keri Blakinger
AP: Earth is 'really quite sick now' and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says | by Seth Borenstein
Searchlight New Mexico: The Atomic Hereafter | by Alicia Inez Guzmán
Vice: AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue, Kills Human Operator in USAF Simulated Test | by Chloe Xiang and Matthew Gault
Yale E360: As Ocean oxygen levels dip, fish face an uncertain future | by Nicola Jones
The Guardian: Scientists discover mysterious cosmic threads in Milky Way | by Ian Sample
Labor
Lunch break during upgrading of Union Square Infrastructure. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Civil Eats: The True Cost of Canned Tuna Includes Marine Observer Abuse and Deaths | by Lee Van Der Voo
Backstage: SAG-AFTRA approves new influencer agreement | by Diep Tran
NY Times: How Remote Work Connected Employees Making $19 an Hour and $80,000 a Year | by Emma Goldberg
LA Times: Southern California hotel workers to vote on strike authorization | by Suhauna Hussain
LA Times: California to step up efforts to find boxers owed pensions following Times report | by Melody Gutierrez
Podcast
The Mouth Radio Hour: The Rest Is History
The Food Chain: Lunch break | produced by Elisabeth Mahy
Documentary Storytellers: 07 Michael Snyder
Books
San Francisco County Jail prisoner reading his bible. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Neuroanthropology: Righteous Dopefiend by Phillippe Bourgois
Social Issues
The Dial: The Law of the Sea | by Surabhi Ranganathan
NPR: A police officer's first words to a Black driver signal how the car stop will go | by Nell Greenfieldboyce
Propublica: Supreme Risk – An interactive guide to rights the Supreme Court has established and could take away | by Ian MacDougall and Sergio Hernandez
Axios: Twitter Trust and Safety head Ella Irwin resigns after Musk-Daily Wire tweets | by Scott Rosenberg, Sara Fisher
LA Times: Zoot Suit Riots: How Black L.A. defended Mexican Americans | by Gustavo Arellano
Division Street
SF Chronicle: Can S.F. ever learn to shut up and follow the data on drugs?
SF Public Press: As Overdose Deaths Surge, Critics Chide SF for Curbing Safe Sites | by Sylvie Sturm
SF Chronicle: SF homeless camp sweeps violate court order, advocates say | by Bob Egelko
LA Times: Orange County looks to redeem its fabled ‘Road to Summer,’ one seedy motel at a time | by Cabriel San Román
The Guardian: ‘I’ve never seen so much vitriol’: activist Paul Boden on America’s homelessness crisis | by Erin McCormick
KQED: Advocates for unhoused San Franciscans say encampment sweeps continue despite court order, call on judge to rein City in | by Vanessa Rancaño
Courthouse News: San Diego calls housing a human right but may soon ban tent encampments | by Sam Ribakoff
From Page 58 of “Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
Corey Trosclaio, 46 years old and homeless for 2 or 3 years, looking out from his box “home”, Brannan near 8th. The boxes were made from found building materials. They could be locked afforded some amount of security. Even though they were on wheels, their weight made them hard to move to avoid police “sweeps” and have largely disappeared.
11 March 2015 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Found texts and overheard conversations from Page 58:
“OK that’s it. You’re just playing. You need a bathroom or you’re in, that’s it.” Unhoused person to their dog, sometime in 2018
“The world champion DANCE OFF??? Rolling Thunder I will always honor my love to you. Can’t change my job. But promised to do my best & whatever it takes….. So what do you say to 1 more” Freeway bridge column Brannan and 13th – 2019
“Hey, I came over to get my broum. I took one paer of pants and a red cote. Always et ♡” Freeway bridge column at Division and San Bruno, 12 June 2017
See more of my photobook “Division Street”. See all the images, and read all the stories, messages and overheard conversations by buying the book from Dewi Lewis
“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
22 – 28 May 2023
Monument commemorating the 1860 arrival of the first Japanese naval ship to San Francisco. Lincoln Park, San Francisco. 04 April 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Photography
Blind: David Hurn - 70 Years of Poetry
NY Times: The Battle for Bakhmut, in Photos
LA Times - Image: The restaurant booth is the furniture equivalent of entering a life behind the scenes | by Erika Houle, Photography: Jacob Ogden
Blind: Victorine Alisse – In the sweat of their brow
The Collector: Roland Barthes: A Philosophy of Photography | by Matthew Fitzgerald
The Hulett Collection: Robert Brecko Walker
Blind: Bruno Barbey in Italy: Dolce Vita
i-D: Gritty photos documenting four decades of mafia-run Palermo | by Miss Rosen
Aperture: Eikoh Hosoe’s Mythic Worlds | Lena Fritsch
Feature Shoot: Sin City: Las Vegas Photography, Through the Decades
Harry Gruyaert: East/West
Dazed: ‘It’s deeper than curiosity’: Tom Wood on how to photography your community | by Emily Dinsdale
i-D: Kyle Lui’s project ‘Sowing Rice With Salt’ - First gen kids recreate photos of their parents when they were younger
The Guardian: Kissinger at 100: The ‘bloody, dreadful, filthy’ Angolan civil war | Photos Antonio Olmos – words: Peter Beaumont
Contemporary African Photography Prize: Shortlist
Magnum: Inge Morath in commemoration
BJP: Fair exchange: should socially engaged photographers pay their participants? | by Rachel Segal Hamilton
Document: Uncovering the photographic archive of Allen Ginsberg | by Megan Hullander
My Modern Met: Sujata Setia’s Powerful portraits honor the stories of people with physical differences | by Sara Barnes
Tom Stoddart: Our Journal
Culture, Art and Design
Kenneth Anger at home with his bust of Rudolph Valentino. Los Angeles, California 1988. Photo: Robert Gumpert
LA Times: Fashion trends study: L.A. berets in Silver Lake, Echo Park | by Dave Schilling
Washington Post: Ron DeSantis’s context-free history book vanished online. We got a copy. | Analysis by Gillian Brockwell
LA Times: L.A. County board denounces 'dark chapter' of Zoot Suit Riots | by Nathan Solis
The Guardian: Out of our minds: opium’s part in imperial history | by Lewis Dartnell
Dezeen: Steve Messam creates site-specific inflatable sculptures for Clerkenwell Design Week | by Jane Englefield
Print: The Daily Heller: For a designer, learning to set metal and wood type is as essential as learning to drive a car.
Blind: AI-Generated Images: A Visual Revolution | by Copélia Mainardi
Dazed: Tina Turner deserved more | by Halima jibril
Rolling Stone: Tina Turner, Queen of Rock & Roll, Dead at 83 | by Brittany Spanos, David Browne
The New Yorker: The untouchable Tina Turner | by Amanda Petrusich
YouTube: Valerie Čižmárová - Jsem pouhá ženská - Dnes uvádí... - 1978 – ČSSR
Dezeen: Bugatti unveils design for first residential skyscraper | by Tom Ravenscroft
Dazed: Kenneth Anger, in his own words
NY Times: Kenneth Anger, 96, Dies; Experimental Filmmaker Left a Pop Culture Legacy | by Dennis Lim
The White Review: Interview with Geetanjali Shree | interviewer Reya Divekar
Creative Review: New IWM show takes visitors into the heart of the Troubles | by Eliza Williams
Eye: Patriotic rubbish | by Nigel Ball
Other Stuff
Downtown San Francisco from the 12th floor of 100 Pine Street. San Francisco, California 23 May 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Bloomberg: How a fake AI photo of a Pentagon blast went viral and briefly spooked stocks | by Davey Alba
SF Chronicle: So S.F. is an unlivable hellhole? Try finding an apartment here | by Soleil Ho
Grist: Boots on the Ground – As FEMA struggles to keep up with climate disasters, extremist groups see an opportunity. | by Zoya Teirstein
Nautilus: Why Do So Many Moons Have Oceans? | by Brian Gallagher
Quartz: With AI, Bill Gates sees the end of Google Search and Amazon | Faustine Ngila
Washington Post: Network of ancient Maya cities reveals well-organized civilization | Charlotte Lytton
The Guardian: Look at what hedge funds really do – and tell me capitalism is about ‘rewarding risk’ | by Brett Christophers
McSweeney’s: Cat food flavors made by cats | by Tori Multon
Labor
Amsterdam News: Making sure the first is not the last: Direct action begins to diversify construction sites | Damaso Reyes
NPR: Report: 20 of the world's richest economies contribute heavily to modern slavery | by Ayana Archie
Washington Post: U.S. among 17 countries that practice forced labor, a form of slavery, report finds | by Miriam Berger
LA Times: Opinion: When unions and police clash: The Memorial Day Massacre you may not know about | by Greg Mitchell
Headbanging Headlines:
Livenowfox.com: Video shows impatient Florida man pull semi-automatic handgun on ATM user because he was taking too long
The Guardian: Tom Petty’s family accuses auction house of stealing his clothes
Podcast
Sand trap, Lincoln Park Public Golf Course. San Francisco, California. 11 April 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
BBC – In the Studio: Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Decoding sonic memories
BBC – Outlook: Lola the bare-knuckle drag queen
Breaking Pita with Zee: F*** what they think: A solo conversation about reputation.
The Messy Truth – Conversations on Photography: Jacqueline Bates On Photo Direction
This is Jo’burg S1 E3: “Your call will be answered…” | by Charles Leonard
Aeon: David Goldblatt captured the contradictions of apartheid in stark black and white | directed by Ian Forster
Books
NY Times: The First 10 Words of the African American English Dictionary Are In | by Sandra E. Garcia
London Review of Books: Sean Dower’s Monumental Guns | by Francis Gooding
Flashbak: Richard and Mildred Loving: The husband and wife whose marriage changed America | photographer Grey Villet, text by Barbara Villet and foreword by Stephen Crowley
Social Issues
Camping on Texas Street near 18th. San Francisco, California. 25 May 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Washington Post: Homeless seniors in Phoenix, elsewhere are flooding shelters | by Christopher Rowland
48 Hills: The pointless, misleading, cynical—and really weird—fentanyl ad campaign | by Christopher D. Cook
NY Times: Google’s Photo App Still Can’t Find Gorillas. And Neither Can Apple’s | by Nico Grant and Kashmir Hill
Politico: Opinion – America’s Poverty is Built by Design | by Sheryll Cashin
NY Times: Imagine a renters’ Utopia – It might look like Vienna | by Francesca Mari. Photographs by Luca Locatelli
CNBC: Salesforce's Marc Benioff blames Silicon Valley for San Fran inequality | by Ryan Browne
Aeon: Solving the heroin overdose mystery: how small does can kill | by Shepard Siegel – edited by Pam Weintraub
Aeon: Want to reduce drug use? Listen to women drug users | by Kasia Malinowska and Bethany Medley – edited by Sam Haselby
Print: News from a Changing Planet: Understanding Food Costs | by Tatiana Schlossberg
The Guardian: ‘Worthless’: Chevron’s carbon offsets are mostly junk and some may harm, research says | by Nina Lakhani
Scientific American: Ron DeSantis's Anti-science Agenda Is Dangerous
The White Review: Hating it lush: on Tel Aviv | by Kaleem Hawa
Division Street
The Guardian: ‘Stick over carrot’: progressive Portland takes a hard turn on homelessness | by Winston Ross
From my book Division Street: Page 44: Photo and text
Construction of “The Chorus”, apartments and business space at 30 Otis Street, San Francisco, California. 22 January 2020. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Now leasing APT 2409 (24th floor): 2 Bed / 2 Bath - 999 sq. ft. - $7,448
“WE BEGIN WITH GROUNDBREAKING IDEAS
BEFORE WE EVEN BREAK GROUND.”
Mission Bay Construction site - 17 February 2015
“Food Water Shelter -
The internet helps people succeed. Mozilla spreads know-how globally” Sign on the side of a building Mission and 10th, 9 September 2016
Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But for Evicting People: A company called Civvl says
evicting people is the “FASTEST GROWING MONEY MAKING GIG DUE TO COVID-19.” Motherboard, tech by Vice, 21 September 2020
“YOUR REFUND IS CALLING.
Get Your Billions Back America”
Bus stop ad for tax company
16th and Bryant , 12 February 2015
See more of my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis
15- 21 May 2023
Kary Jefferson, 56 on a mattress at Rhode Island and 18th Street, San Francisco, California. She has been living on the street for "several years", and in this spot for several days. 14 May 2023
Photo: Robert Gumpert
Photography
Lenscratch: The 20223 Mother Exhibition | by Aline Smithson
Huck: Photographer Joel Meyerowitz on the pleasure of seeing | by Miss Rosen
Document: Between rivers and histories, An-Mu Lê’s photographs interrogate the complex fictions of warfare | by Roxana Marcoci, photos: An-Mu Lê
AnOther: These Photos Explore Home and Belonging in Toronto’s African Diaspora | by Miss Rosen
The Eye of Photography: Galerie Christophe Person : Samuel Fosso : Tati
Field of View: The Enigmatic, Unknown ‘Royal’ Photographer | by Patrick Witty
Jason Lee: Journal
BBC News: Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before | by Rebecca Morelle and Alison Francis
Howard Greensberg Gallery: Social Formalism – master prints by Paul Strand
The New Yorker: The debt-ceiling fight’s collateral damage | by E. Tammy Kim. Photography: Nolan Trowe
Huck: Cinematic shots of late night Chicago in the '60s | by Miss Rosen
The Guardian: Eye Mama – what motherhood looks like | by Sarah Gilbert
The Guardian: Take it to church! Inside a dwindling parish | by Herman Ellis Dyal
Culture, Art and Design
Washington Post: She had lived a life of adventure. Then came the ultimate sailing race. | by Les Carpenter
LA Times: The ghosts of California’s most utopian experiments live in the remains of communes | by André Naffis-Sahely
The Art Newspaper: Judge refuses to toss two copyright infringement lawsuits against Richard Prince | by Torey Akers
Courthouse News Service: Fair use defense by Richard Prince fails to sway judge on Instagram prints | Josh Russell
Other Stuff
Creative Boom: Don’t let work overwhelm you: protecting your mental health | by Toma May
Washington Post: What the Jan. 6 probe found out about social media, but didn’t report | by Cat Zakrzewski Cristiano Lima and Drew Harwell
NY Times: As Emergency Ends, a Look at Covid’s U.S. Death Toll | by Lazaro Gamio, Eleanor Lutz, Albert Sun
Business Insider: Giuliani Demanded Staffer Give Him Oral Sex During Calls From Trump | by Laura Italiano
Insider: OpenAI is rolling out a game-changing feature to ChatGPT this week that could revolutionize how we use the internet | by Aaron Mok
Propublica: Churches’ Role in TX Election Prompts Calls for Investigations | by Jessica Priest
Review of Journalism: When journalists ‘parachute’ into communities during tragedies, what does that mean for the people they cover? | by Rachel DeGasperis
The Lever: DeSantis Allows Anti-“Woke” Giveaway To Big Wall Street Donors | by Matthew Cunningham-Cook
The Texas Observer: Those Who Don't Know the Past… | by Josephine Lee
Washington Post: Incredible shrinking lakes: Humans, climate change, diversion costs trillions of gallons annually | by Seth Borenstein – AP
NY Times: F.B.I. Revokes Security Clearances of 3 Agents Over Jan. 6 Issues | by Alan Feuer
Labor
Apprentice insulator on a San Francisco, California building at Market and 2nd Street. 2000. Photo: Robert Gumpert
41WMGT: Blue Bird workers in Fort Valley vote to join United Steelworkers Union | by Andrew Willis
NY Times: Flush with federal money, strings attached, a Deep South Factory Votes to unionize | by Jonathan Weisman
LA Times: The writer’s strike’s top ally: an F-bomb-throwing Teamster with a Jimmy Hoffa tattoo | by Anousha Sakoui
Amsterdam News: Building the pathway to the middle class |by Damaso Reyes
In These Times: The Young Miners Dying of “An Old Man’s Disease” | by Kim Kelly
Deadline: Strippers At North Hollywood Club Win Fight To Unionize | by Greg Evans
Labor Notes: Union Win at Bus Factory Electrifies Georgia | by Luis Feliz Leon
The London Economic: ‘800,000 car industry jobs at risk’ due to Brexit deal | by Jack Peat
NY Times: An Automaker Has a Stark Warning for the U.K. Car Industry | by Stanley Reed
Vanity Fair: Meet the Writers Strike’s Secret Weapon: Hollywood Teamster Boss Lindsay Dougherty | Joy Press
The Guardian: The San Antonio Spurs won the draft lottery. So did Victor Wembanyama | by Joseph Palmer
The Guardian: Dancers at Los Angeles club to become the US’s only unionized strippers | by Lois Beckett
Podcast
Ezra Klein: Why Adults Lose the “Beginner’s Mind”
A Plain View (from 2017): Episode 55 with Jason Lee
Books
1854 Photography: Tory story: Craig Easton examines the cycle of intergenerational poverty within one family in England
Social Issues
San Francisco County Jail 1, Intake. Prisoners in one of the holding “cells” waiting to be processed. 1996. Photo: Robert Gumpert
NY Times: Two Decades of Prison Did Not Prepare Me for the Horrors of County Jail | by Christopher Blackwell
The New Republic: The U.S. Military Has an Extremism Problem | by Deena So’oteh
Huck: At What Cost? – The true cost of living in Britain in 2023 | by Ben Smoke, Photos: Aiyush Pachnanda
TPM: Supreme Court opens door to South Carolina reinstituting ‘Stark Racial Gerrymander’ | by Kata Riga
NY Times: The Long and Violent History of Anti-Black Racism in the Latino Community | by Cecilia Márquez
TPM: EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Hill Staffer Is A Prominent Follower Of Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes | by Hunter Walker
MediaMatters: Conservative pundits are increasingly open about who they think should be killed | by John Knefel
WFLA: Florida doctors can now deny health care coverage based on personal views
The Guardian: It’s time to guarantee healthcare to all Americans as a human right | by Bernie Sanders
Division Street
On 16 May only the shoes and some vegetables were left at the spot Kary Jefferson, 56 had been sleeping at for a number of days at Rhode Island and 18th Street, San Francisco, California.
Photo: Robert Gumpert
Local News Matters: Developer cancels deal to construct housing for homeless at People’s Park in Berkeley | by Keith Burbank, Bay City News
SF Chronicle: What's the point of those new ‘Fentalife’ ads in SF's Tenderloin? | by Nuala Bisdhari
The Guardian: What do we need to feel safe?’ Lives affected by homelessness | by Margaret Mitchell
KQED: The End of Wood Street: Inside the Struggle for Stability, Housing on the Margins of the Bay Area | by Erin Baldassari
Street Sheet: We’re Lower Bottom, Bitches | by “Freeway”
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“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
08 – 14 May 2023
Fire fighters outside of Shoreditch Fire Station. Old Street, London, England. 1989
Photo: Robert Gumpert
Photography
Peta Pixel: Roger Deakins: Legendary Cinematographer with a photographer’s eye | Phil Mistry
Photo Booth: A photographer – Charlie Engman – embraces the alien logic of A.I. | by Chris Wiley
AnOther: Will Vogt’s insider photographs of America’s wealth-flaunting WASPs | by Miss Rosen
Blind: A Sizzling Portrait of Times Square in the 1980s | by Miss Rosen
Washington Post: Opinion – Photos expose the harsh reality of child labor in the United States | by Ken Light
Kickstarter: ‘Here and There’ – An expedition of sorts by Jillian Edelstein
The Guardian: Photographers talk the coronation
Lens Cultrue: Valery Poshtarov’s “Father and Son” | essay by Magali Duzant
Then There Was Us: Paddy Summerfield's Voyage aound my mother | Jonathan Tomlinson
Then There Was Us: An interview with Marc Wilson | Jonathan Tomlinson
Blind: Lars Tunbjörk, A View From the Side | by Max Hirshfeld
Lenscratch: Arin Yoon: Motherhood and the military | by Deanna Dikeman
Lenscratch: Jena Love: The absurdity of pregnancy and motherhood | by Deanna Dikeman
BJP: Tory story: Craig Easton examines the cycle of intergenerational poverty within one family in England | by Ravi Ghosh
BJP: “To have impact, you have to get through all this visual noise”: How CONTACT’s outdoor installations keep Toronto guessing | by Naomi Skwarna
The New Yorker: The superbloom is a glimpse of California’s past | by Dana Goodyear, Photos: loulex
PhotoDoc: Les Esposants
Blind: Documentary photography revolution is on | by Michaël Naulin
Aperture: Vân-Nhi Nguyen’s bold perspective on the lives of young people in Vietnam | by Thessaly La Force
Culture, Art and Design
Roofers at a residential site in Berkeley, California. 2001
Photo: Robert Gumpert
Review of Journalism: Behind the Frame – Photojournalism has an exploitation problem. Three journalists are finding ways to solve it. | by Iman Adem
The Blue Moment: Starless and bible black – soundtrack for 70th anniversary of the first performance of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood | by Richard Williams
It’s Nice That: The Test of Time: How are designers creating long-lasting, impactful work? | by Ritupriya Basu
The Guardian: ‘He epitomized the dazzling 60s and then was gone’: the inside story of Rolling Stone Brian Jones | by Sean O’Hagan
The Guardian: The Lion Sleeps Tonight: one song’s journey from 1930s South Africa to Disney money-spinner | by Lior Phillips
Artsy: Jeremy Frey Draws on Indigenous Traditions to Weave Wondrous Baskets | by Jameson Johnson
Print: Dave Eggers on reimagining books with his bamboo hardback, ‘The Eyes & the Impossible’ | by Charlotte Beach
Huck: London’s flourishing jazz scene is just getting started | by Fred Garratt-Stanley
NY Times: Fear of a Black Cleopatra | by Gwen Nally and Mary Hamil Gilbert
Dezeen: Racism is not a design motive | by Stephen Burks
The Orwell Foundation: Finalists Announced for the 2023 Orwell Prizes
Hyperallergic: Tsherin Sherpa’s “Corrupted” Thangka Art | by Erin L. Thompson and M. T. Anderson
Other Stuff
SciTechDaily: Closer to Earth Than Ever Before: MIT Astronomers Detect Black Hole Devouring a Star | by Jennifer Chu, MIT
Phys.Org: Astronomers claim to have solved mystery of the runaway supermassive black hole | by Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Bellingcat: Chronolocation: Determining when a photo was taken using Facebook, Google Street View and assorted tiny details | by Youri van der Weide
LA Times: L.A. plan says civilians, not police, should make traffic stops | by Libor Jany
Scientific American: Why Does Scratching Cause More Itching? | by Andrea Alfano
The Guardian: AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | by Naomi Klein
Aeon: A thickness in the air – the spooky sensation that someone is right there | by Ben Alderson-Day, edited by: Pam Weintraub
The Atavist Magazine: A tale of disaster, survival, and ghosts. The Titanic of the Pacific | by Tyler Hooper
Rolling Stone: Tommy Tuberville Defends White Nationalists in the Military | by Ryan Bort
Psychology Today: Interview with a Former Flying Monkey | by Kaytee Gillis, LCSW-BACS
ArsTechnica: Google’s answer to ChatGPT is now open to everyone in the US, packing new features | by Benj Edwards
The Verge: AI startup Anthropic wants to write a new constitution for safe AI | by James Vincent
Washington Post: Scientists sent balloons into the stratosphere – and found a a mystery | by Carolyn Y. Johnson
Labor
Union construction workers working on the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Los Angeles, California 2000
Photo: Robert Gumpert
Pluralistic: Hollywood is the single best example of mature labor power in America; On the Media on the enshittification (pt 1) (06 May 2023) | by Cory Doctorow
The Guardian: Half of UK gig economy workers earn below minimum wage, study reveals | by Philippa Kelly
The Texas Observer: He Died Helping Build Tesla’s Gigafactory. Tesla Didn’t Tell Local Officials. | by Gus Bova
Vanity Fair: Writers Strike: Why AI Should Be Central in the Fight | by Nick Bilton
El País: David Simon: ‘They can chew you up, but then they gotta spit you out’ | buy Fernando Navarro
Headbanging Headlines:
TPM: Mississippi Gov Launches Reelection Bid With Video Of Him As Clint Eastwood Shooting People Of Color
Biloxi Sun Herald: Louisiana – Neighbor shoots 14-year-old as kids play hide and seek outside
Podcast
Fifth and Mission: Inside Marin County’s Massive Homeless Encampment | Annie Vainshtein and Cedilla Lei
Ear Hustle: Episode 90: Abundant and Passionate Trash
The Photowalk: #379: Ave Pildas Hollywoooood and the ultimate challenge
Books
Washington Post: MLK’s famous criticism of Malcolm X was a ‘fraud,’ author finds | by Gillian Brockell
Social Issues
Moving home during a break in a rainstorm. Alameda Street near Utah Street. San Francisco, California 28 January 2021
Photo: Robert Gumpert
The Nation: How racist car dealers KO’d Joe Louis | by Silke-Maria Weineck
Texas Observer: 'We're So Behind Here': Travis County Jail's Diversion Experiment | by Linda Fisher
SF Public Press: Military-Style Drug War in Tenderloin Sparks Overdose Fears | by Sylvie Sturm
LA Times: $55,000 to leave a rent-controlled L.A. apartment? Tenants say no | by Paloma Esquivel, Photos: Christina House
LA Times: California tribes ask lawmakers for help to stem violence | by Hannah Wiley
ProPublica: Investigators Didn’t Ask Key Questions of Cops Who Killed Kawaski Trawick | by Mike Hayes for ProPublica, and Eric Umansky
The Guardian: ‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings expose the US’s depraved torture policy | by Ed Pilkington
The Atlantic: A Country Governed by Fear | by Elizabeth Bruenig
The New Yorker: How Troubling Are the Payments and Gifts to Ginni and Clarence Thomas? | by Jane Mayer
The Lever: Clarence Thomas Reversed Position After Gifts And Family Payments | by Julia Rock and Andrew Perez
Creators & Innovators: Appalachia needs intersectional solidarity
ProPublica: Examining the Conway, Arkansas, School Board Meeting Arrests | by Nicole Carr; Photography by Terra Fondriest for ProPublica
LA Times: Fentanyl overdoses fuel surge in L.A. County homeless deaths | by Emily Alpert Reyes
The Cut: The Cost of White Discomfort | by Brittany Packnett Cunningham
National Low Income Housing Coalition: Resolute
TPM: A Massive Texas County Turned Blue. Then The GOP-Controlled Senate Voted To Overturn Their Elections. | by Kaila Philo
Division Street
Washington Post: The slow chokehold on the nation’s homeless | by Theresa Vargas
SF Standard: Don Carmignani Attack: Did Multiple People Bear-Spray Homeless? | by Michael Barba, Matthew Kupfer, David Sjostedt
SF Chronicle: Why couldn’t SF house Banko Brown before he was shot at Walgreens? | by Nuala Bishari
NY Times: ‘A Daily Game of Russian Roulette’: Homeless in San Diego | by Eli Saslow – photos Erin Staff
Andrew Douglas, 41 | Without a home: “9-10 years now”
“I’m long-term homeless so I qualify for priority housing, where’s my housing? When we (his wife didn’t want to be photographed) came up here from Santa Cruz, she had Section 8. But there’s no places for Section 8 down in Santa Cruz because the one person you can rent Section 8 housing from, is a creep. She left because he was putting cameras in the fucking apartment. When he saw me in the equation, then he said he didn’t have places to rent.”
“We came up here because of resources and availability. We’ve been up here the last few months trying to get my wife and I some resources. It’s a headache and a hazzle.”
“We just had Caltrans come through making sure we weren’t syphoning any power (their tent is on state land next to a freeway on ramp), so what are we supposed to do? We’re constantly under the gun, constantly under the lens of scrutiny. A lot of us just want to dig in at this point, do what we need to do to make a living. I collect cans and salvage things, (but) everyone thinks that I’m a criminal, just because I’m homeless. It’s not a crime to be homeless. You’re supposed to wage a war on poverty, not poor people.”
Photo: Robert Gumpert 19 May 2022 on Dore Alley
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01 - 07 May 2023
The heart of Mission Bay, once an industrial area between Dogpatch and China Basin, the area was made a redevelopment project in 1998. Today it is “home” to UCSF Women’s Hospital, several other UCSF facilities, a Kaiser Medical Building, housing and small parks, and several bio-tech facilities. San Francisco, California
Photo: Robert Gumpert 24 April 2023
Photography
Fraction: Issue 166 – Guest Curator, Dana Stirling, Editor Float Magazine
Lenscratch: Barbara Strigel: If we were to talk about architecture | by Daniel George
Aperture: Charles “Teenie” Harris’s midcentury portrait of Black culture in Pittsburgh | by Tiana Reid
Field of View: The Situation Room, Revisited | by Patrick Witty
The Guardian: Bright sparks: Ian Parry photojournalism grant | by Matt Fidler
NY Times: Filmmaker Joel Coen Puts His Spin on the Photos of Lee Friedlander | by Arthur Lubow
PetePixel: Historical photo page is duped into posting a fake image made by AI | by Matt Growcoot
The New Yorker: Dafydd Jones – The photographer who captured England’s last hurrah | by Tina Brown
Lenscratch: Mauro Curti: Riturné | by Daniel George
The Guardian: ‘What have I seen?’: Joel Meyerowitz’s life in photography
Peta Pixel: Historic press photos capture police brutality during the 1967 Newark Riots | by Matt Growcoot
Wallpaper*: ‘Avedon 100’: cultural stars reflect on the photographer’s boundary-shattering legacy | by Sophie Gladstone
PhMuseum: The best photography festivals opening this May
Dazed: Brynley Odu Davies: Portraits of young British artists in the seclusion of their studios
My Modern Met: How Charlie Clift captured intimate celebrity portraits at 2023 BAFTA Awards | by Sara Barnes
Colossal: ‘A World History of Women Photographers’ unearths hundreds of images that enrich the canon | by Grace Ebert
The Conversation: Can a photograph change the world? | by Beatriz Guerrero González-Valerio
Martin Krüger: Porfolio
Aperture: Photographs that show the “Fire and Thunder” of contemporary life | Interviews by Brendan Embser, Noa Lin, Varun Nayar, and Cassidy Paul
Culture, Art and Design
A Russian storefront on Geary Street. The owner is retiring and closing the store. San Francisco, California
Photo: Robert Gumpert 27 April 2023
DW: Japan: Could the future be female? | by Julian Ryall
Hyperallergic: Memories of a Long-Gone, Gritty New York | by Joe Fyfe
Bidoun: Laughter was out inheritance – A Beirut Diary | by Edwin Nasr, Photography by Michele Aoun
Designboom: cao fei’s ‘duotopia’ deves into the metaverse and virtual r4eality a sprüth magers berlin | by Christina Petridou
Dezeen: “Droog is the last movement in design” says designer Richard Hutten | by Rima Sabina Aouf
McSweeney’s: Finally, a doorbell camera that shoots bullets | by David Henne
El País: How the world has appropriated Anne Frank | by Laura Fernández
Creative Boom: Sam Wile’s complex patterned worlds explore the tension between organic & human-made | by Katy Cowan
Print: Design Legend Stefan Sagmeister Offers Free Critiques to the Masses on Instagram | by Charlotte Beach
AnOther: Frida Orupabo, the Artist Reconfiguring Colonial Legacies Through Collage | text Alayo Akinkugbe
Wallpaper*: Ole Scheeren’s architecture rewrites the rulebook | by Deyan Sudjic
Other Stuff
Rebuilt appliance shop, corner of Bryant and Cesar Chavez streets. San Francisco, California
Photo: Robert Gumpert 28 September 2016
Mission Local: ‘No! You stay!’ Cops, firefighters bewildered as driverless cars behave badly | by Joe Eskenazi
LA Times: I tried Snack's dating app and let an AI chatbot flirt for me | by Jaimie Ding
Bloomberg: Germany Sets the New Standard for Cheap, National Mass Transit | by Josefine Fokuhl, Wilfried Eckl-Dorna and Feargus O’Sullivan
Hyperallergic: Stone Buddha Found in Egypt Sheds Light on India’s Influence | by Rhea Nayyar
El País: Can monkeys be fooed by magic tricks? | by Laura Camón
NY Times: Why Trump Won’t Let Go of His Dream of Domination | by Thomas Edsall
Washington Post: Elon Musk's Twitter helps governments censor their citizens
Talking Points Memo: Dems Are Furious About A Conservative Trick To Game The Courts. Is There A Path To A Legislative Fix? | by Kate Riga
NPR: Elon Musk threatens to re-assign @NPR on Twitter to 'another company' | by Bobby Allyn
PetaPixel: Researchers have created an incredibly detailed global map of Mars | by Jeremy Gray
LA Times: An 'orgasm' at the L.A. Phil? Witnesses offer conflicting accounts | by Christi Carras
Aeon: Self-Satisfaction | by M D Usher, edited by Nigel Warburton
El País: The ‘terminator’ zones of exoplanets: New ways to search for extraterrtrial life | Victoria Toro
Labor
Winter in Detroit, Michigan: United Steelworkers’ union members taking a break from the picket line.
Photo: Robert Gumpert 1986
Salon: May Day’s radical history | by Jacob Remes
Tempest: May Days – Commemorating International Workers’ Day in Chicago’s Haymarket Tour | by Joe Allen
The Guardian: ‘A nightmare I couldn’t wake up from’: half of Rana Plaza survivors unable to work 10 years after disaster | by Thaslima Begum
The Guardian: ‘Dumb and dangerous’: US sees surge in efforts to weaken child labor regulations | by Michael Sainato
CNN: 10-year-old children were found working at a Louisville McDonald's until 2 a.m | by Michelle Watson
Print: Who Do You See in this Picture? | by Liz Gumbinner
Hyperallergic: Striking screenwriters say No to ChatGPT | by Maya Pontone
Financial Times: Writers vs AI bots is more than a Hollywood drama |
Psyche: Why good teachers allow a child’s mind to wander and wonder | by Anders Schinkel, edited by Sam Dresser
NPR: The best signs of the WGA picket line
The Conversation: The exploitation of Hollywood’s writers is juat another symptom of digital feudalism | by David Arditi
Headbanging Headlines:
Today: Should 3rd graders learn how to use tourniquets for school shootings? Texas bill says yes
Podcast
The Food Programme: Conversations in cafes: all hail the greasy spoon
Heritage Radio Network: Stuart Freedman on London’s Eel, Pie, and Mash Shops
Dezeen: Watch the second part of DesignTalks 2023 focusing on design’s response to social challenges | Part one of Design Talks 2023
UNP: A photographic conversation, #261 with Bill Sahpiro: ‘The personal project part 2’
Books
The Guardian: ‘Johnson at 10’ - Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell on Boris Johnson: ‘At his heart, he is extraordinarily empty’ | by Tim Adams
Creative Boom: Beautiful new photography book celebrated the history and diversity of the NHS | Emily Gosling
Aperture: 9 inspiring photobooks by contemporary women photographers
Social Issues
Inside Climate News: More Than a Decade of Megadrought Brought a Summer of Megafires to Chile | photos and text by James Whitlow Delano
Inside Climate News: In the crossroads state of Illinois, nearly 2 million people live near warehouses shrouded by truck pollution | by Al Lewis
Washington Post: The first arrests from DeSantis’s election police take extensive toll | by Lori Rozsa
NY Times: A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers | by Choe Sang-Hun, photos: Jean Chung
El País: The tangled net of regulations that ensnares lifesaving NGOs in the Mediterranean | by Lola Hierro
NY Times: ‘Whatever It Takes’: The Street Teams Who Help Mentally Ill New Yorkers | by Andy Newman, Photos: Hiroko Masuike
Dezeen: Three designs that confront housing insecurity announced as Davidson Prize finalists | Jane Englefield
Searchlight New Mexico: Storage wars | by Hannah Grover
LA Times: Historic Suehiro Cafe in Little Tokyo is being evicted. Is rail development harming ethic communities? | by Frank Shyong
NY Times: Living and Breathing on the Front Line of a Toxic Chemical Zone | by Eric Lipton
The Guardian: ‘Cancer Alley’, US chemical giants mount campaign against grassroots organizers | by Pam Radtke for Floodlight
Peta Pixel: AI reveals its biases by generating what it thinks professors look like | by Matt Growcoot
NY Times: ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead | by Cade Metz
Le Monde: May Day demonstrations: Why fewer fake AI-generated images were spread | by William Audureau
NY Times: How Do We Ensure an A.I. Future That Allows for Human Thriving? | by David Marchese
Neuroscience News: Listen and Learn: AI Systems Process Speech Signals Like Human Brains | by Jason Pohl
Dazed: AI has now unlocked the ability to read people’s minds | by Thom Waite
NY Times: The Next Fear on A.I.: Hollywood’s Killer Robots Become the Military’s Tools | by David E. Sanger
Dezeen: UN Human Rights Council experts “express alarm” over imminent executions connected to Neom | by Tom Ravenscroft
Division Street
CNN: Oregon bill would decriminalize homeless encampments and propose penalties if unhoused people are harassed or ordered to leave | by Steve Almasy and Laura Studley
SF Chronicle: ‘Enormous rise’ in 2023 overdose deaths | by Christian Leonard
Street Sheet: A Brief History of the Tenderloin Linkage Center | by Quiver Watts
Mission Local: Bayview RV site slated for closure — 118 residents to be dispersed | by Joe Rivano Barros
NY Times: Tiny Homes for the Formerly Homeless | by Jane Margolies
Street Sheet: Housed, But Still Homeless
Washington Post: Cafe owner in Berkeley serves free breakfasts to anyone who is hungry | by Cathy Free
From my book “Division Street”. Order from Dew Lewis Publishing
“Braving the Seas.
Since 1850, San Francisco Bar Pilots have waited outside the Golden Gate and boarded ships at all times, in all weather conditions. The earliest bar pilots rowed out from a sailing schooner in a skiff or yawl, grabbed a swinging ladder, and guided ships in exchange for goods.” Historical marker along the Embarcadero, 9 May 2016
Photo: Lands End. Photo: Robert Gumpert 05 May 2019
24 – 30 April 2023
Photography
Early morning, Vermont and 22nd Streets. Potrero Hill section of San Francisco, California. 17 November 2020 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Blind: The Everyday Bronx | by Robert E. Gerhardt
Magnum: Chris Killip’s enduring connection with the people he photographed | by Diane Smyth
Field of View: The Final Embrace | by Patrick Witty
i-D: Photographing the chaotic birth of 70’s British subculture | Miss Rosen
Blind: Micha Bar-Am: A rendez-vous in the Heart of Israel | by Anne Maniglier & Brigitte Ollier
Huck: The rise and fall of Wales’ most idiosyncratic newspaper | by Issack Muk – Photos: Sebastian Bruno
It’s Nice That: Carlos Idun-Tawiah captures the intimacy of childhood friendships in Accra | by Joey Levenson
PetaPixel: Photo of 6-year old boy pointing gun at camera at NRA event spark uproar | by Matt Growcoot
Blind: How AI imagery is shaking photojournalism | by Amber Terranova
The New Yorker: Thomas Wågström’s Pictures of the Living and the Lifeless | by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Blind: Beyond the Conflict
Lens Culture: Troy Williams’ Village | by Magali Duzant
i-D: Joseph Rodriquez’s photos of Mexico City’s sex workers in the 90s | by Sabrina Cooper
Huck: Edwar Thompson’s ‘Hyper-American’ photos of life in rural Texas | text by Isaac Muk
Huck: Remembering the radical women of New York’s Photo League | by Miss Rosen
AnOther: These photographs capture America’s love affair with the open road | by Miss Rosen
1843 Magazine: The Musk superfans who want to live on Mars with Elon | by Charlie McCann Photos: Brenda Bazan
Lenscratch: Luminous Visions: Chuck Kelton | by Galina Kurlat
Colossal: Architectonic photographs by Charles Brooks illuminate the atmospheric interiors of historic instruments | by Kate Mothes
Culture, Art and Design
Covered car. Sea Cliff district, San Francisco, California. 11 April 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
The New Yorker: The otherworldly compositions of an Ethiopian Nun | by Amanda Petrusich
Aperture: Why are we seeing so many photographs on book covers? | by Alistair O’Neill
Creative Boom: Should the world put a pause on AI? Future State 2023 speakers share their views | by Tom May
Print: Meanwhile: How will AI impact the movies | by Daniel Benneworth-Gray
Blind: How AI imagery is shaking photojournalism | by Amber Terranova
PetaPixel: A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it | by Herbert Ascherman
PetaPixel: Republicans launch entirely AI-generated ad attacking President Biden | by Jeremy Gray
Creative Boom: Why TYPEONE magazine is a must-read for graphic designers | by Tom May
Dezeen: Asif Khan and Theaster Gates unveil Liverpool Docks transformation | by Lizzie Crook
The Progressive: Edge of Sports: Trans athletes were always just the beginning | by Dave Zirin
The Guardian: Retro-futurist landscapes inspired by rock idols and writers | by Alice Fisher
Dezeen: Milan design week marred by “racist figurines” say designers | by Tom Ravenscroft
Wallpaper*: Superflex on building an underwater city for fish: ‘there are different rules down there’ | by Alice Godwin
Creative Review: The serious business of wordplay | by Rick Chant
Creative Review: the New York Times’ ads take us down the rabbit hole | by Megan Williams
McSweeney’s: Top dinner suggestions according to a three-year-old’s eating habits | by Kristen Mulrooney
LA Times: Addiction, homelessness, rooftop pools: Downtown L.A. is a map of contradiction | by Jeffrey Fleishman
The Art Newspaper: Amid an unfolding civil war, unique Christian wall paintings have been found in hidden chambers of an ancient Sudanese city | by Emi Eleode
UNP: New – photography: oral histories audio archive launched
Print: The Daily Heller: As the war rages, the posters continue | by Steven Heller
Bidoun: Trump Cocktail | by Hadi Fallahpisheh
YouTube: Transforming an Oil Drum into an instrument – Jimi Phillip making steel pans for “Sounds Like Steel” | by Chas Sheppard
Other Stuff
House on a Sea Cliff district cliff overlooking China Beach and the Golden Gate. 11 April 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
LA Times: Sorry, but San Francisco isn’t the hell hole the far-right claims | by Anita Chabria
NY Times: Koko Da Doll, Star of Film on Transgender Sex Workers, Is Killed in Atlanta | Michael Levenson
Ars/techica: Google’s AI panic forces merger of divisions, DeepMind and Brain | by Ron Amadeo
SF Chronicle: Cruise now offers 24-hour robotaxi service in S.F. | by Ricardo Cano
Aeon: Octopus time | by David Borkenhagen. Edited by: Cameron allan McKean
The New Statesman: The 2023 English local elections – what to watch out for | by Ben Walker
The New Statesman: Ireland booms while Brexit Britain whimpers next door | by Nick Ferris
Washington Post: Opinion | Report says U.S. federal government bungled covid pandemic response
Nautilus: The Race to Colonize Mars Perpetuates a Dangerous Religion | by Brian Gallaher
Narratively: The Wild West Outpost of Japan’s Isolationist Era | by Rob Goss
NY Times: They Wrecked Britain, and They’re Not Going Anywhere | by Samuel Earle
Labor
Washington Post: Foundation for Government Accountability behind child labor law rollbacks, emails show | by Jacob Bogage and Maria Luisa Paúl
Washington Post: Health care workers who survived covid worry about staffing, burnout | by Dudley M. Brooks and Sandra M. Stevenson. And: Text/photos: Rosem Morton; Text/photos: Carolyn Van Houten; Text/photos: Giovanni Cipriano
Rest of World: Self-checkout is putting elderly grocery baggers out of work in Mexico | by Daniela Dib
LRB: I’ll do the dishes: Mothers’ Work | by Sophie Lewis
Huck: Will hospitality workers ever get a four-day week? | by Ella Glover
SF Chronicle: SF tech layoffs: Clubhouse, Dropbox cut hundreds of jobs – SF’s unemployment rate rose to 3% | Roland Li
Labor Notes: Throwing The Heroes Away’: As Arkansas Tyson Plant Closes, Workers Strike over Treatment | by Rachell Sanchez-Smith and Olivia Paschal
Headbanging Headlines:
NBC News: Texas man pauses date to kill fake parking attendant, then returns to restaurant, court records show
Washington Post: Shooter kills 8-year-old and four others in Cleveland, Tex., because neighbors asked him to stop shooting his AR-15 style rifle because it was 11 pm.
Podcast
Mission Rock development across McCovey Cove and the Giants ballpark. Left, The Canyon, “a 23-story mixed-use tower with affordable and market-rate housing, shops, and office space.” Right, An “eight-story office building expected to host a biotech company”. 24 April 2023 Photo: Robert Gumpert
The Ezra Klein Show: Matthew Desmond On America’s Addiction to Poverty
A Small Voice: #202 – Stacy Kranitz | interviewed by Ben Smith
BBC The News Quiz: Series 111 Episode 1
Books
Psyche: Reading books is not just a pleasure: it helps our minds to heal | by Peter Leyland – edited by Christian Jarrett
Social Issues
Apartments and flags, 32nd Street at Geary. 03 September 2019. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Washington Post: In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself | by Greg Jaffe and Patrick Marley
L.A. Taco: Working Full Time and Being Functionally Broke in L.A? You're Not Alone | by Mark Kreidler
The Guardian: Shared rooms, rancid food, no clothes: new report lays bare shocking conditions of those seeking refuge in UK | by Mark Townsend
Dazed: Kieran Yates: ‘We should be critical of the dreams that are sold to us’ | text Adele Walton
SF Chronicle: Whole Foods' Civic Center closure over safety not the whole story | Nuala Bishari, Soleil Ho
Washington Post: What the Trump rape trial has already revealed | by Ruth Marcus
The Guardian: The lesson from the Diane Abbott row: if we fight racism in silos, we just can’t win | by Aditya Chakrabortty
NY Times: Private Equity Is Gutting America — and Getting Away With It | by Brendan Ballou
United Way: Vacant homes vs. homelessness in cities around the U.S.
LA Times: Editorial: Harsher penalties won't save us from fentanyl
Division Street
Chicago Reader via Longreads: 'Why You Talking to a Bum?' | by Katie Prout
Capital & Main: Wood Street Commons’ Final Stand | by David Bacon
The San Francisco Standard: San Francisco bulldozes homeless encampment after fire, enraging activists | by David Sjostedt
Mission Local: Ex-fire commissioner accused of vigilante attacks on homeless | by Christina A. MacIntosh
SF Chronicle: SF spends $356 million on rooms for homeless people – Why do so many sit empty? | by Joaquin Palomino and Trisha Thadani
Washington Post: California launches a tough plan to stem mental illness, homelessness | by Scott Wilson
SF Chronicle: SF’s deadly failure on the drug crisis is unfolding inside its own housing program | by
From Division Street:
Robin Lee, 35. Without a home: “Off and mostly on”, since she was 18
“When I was younger, I didn’t quite see a community, but as I’ve gotten older and spent more time with people in different areas of the city, I learned there’s definitely community. We support one another. It works in a lot of different ways. Each one, teach one. You give, I give. You’re sick one day and you don’t have much, and I have a plethora of things, I’m going to make sure that you’re taken care of, and you’re going to reciprocate that when you see another person sick. To us, as a community, it could be a stranger or it could be somebody that I know, that’s what makes a big difference. It helps bring us all together. But you have to abide by that, you can’t just take, and take, and take. It has to be an equal balance, otherwise it becomes a shit show.”
17 – 23 April 2023
Photography
Bryant near Main, a bit south of the Bay Bridge. San Francisco, California. 05 October 2019 Photo: Robert Gumpert
AnOther: Coco Capitán’s gentle study of teenage life in Kyoto, Japan | by Orla Brennan
Polka: “1992”, QUAND FRANÇOISE HUGUIER REVISITE SON PÉRIPLE SIBÉRIEN | by Alexandra Nawawi
Lenscratch: Earth week: Becky Wilkes- Ditched | by Michael O. Snyder
The Eye of Photography: Sony World Photo Awards 2023: The beginning of the nightmare | by Thierry Maindrault
Hyperallergic: German photographer refuses award for his AI “Photo” | by Rhea Nayyar
Blind: Renata Cherlise - A photographic celebration of Black life | by Robert E. Gerhardt
Wallpaper: Euroluce 2023: Hélène Binet’s show at the fair casts new light on iconic architecture and more | by Vicky Richardson
Huck: Yusuke Nagata, the photographer documenting Tokyo’s homeless teens | by Kim Kahan
Truth in Photography: Thomas Dworzak: The contrarian photographer. Interview and photographs
i-D: A glimpse at Barkley L. Hendricks’ unseen photography archive | by Sarah Moroz
Huck: Celebrating life on the streets of the Bronx – curated by photographer Rhynna M. Santos | by Miss Rosen
World Press Photo: 2023 Contest winners
Lens Culture: Gideon Mendel - Fire/Flood | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell
Blind: Sebastian Bruno - Breaking News
Burn: “One, no one and fifty thousand” – Inside Venetians’ houses | by Marc De Tollenaere
Fraction: The Men Who Would Be King by Jon Tonks and Christopher Lord
Kate Medley Photojournalist: Gas Stations
The Art Newspaper: ‘AI photography is here to stay – here’s why we should be worried’ | by Lewis Bush
The New European: Pictures from the shadows in Iran | by Richard Holledge
BJP: New Photography 2023: MoMA’s celebrated exhibition series turns its focus to Lagos | by Gaselle MBA
Culture, Art and Design
Huck: The collective turning London’s empty buildings into art spaces | by Emma Russell
Print: The Daily Heller: Trippin’ through the creative psyche | by Steven Heller
Hyperallergic: Archaeologists uncover 3,200-year-old Egyptian Cemetery | by Elaine Velie
Flashbak: Al Jaffee demonstrates how he invented those brilliant Mad Magazine ‘Folds-ins’
OMCA: OMCA welcomes Makeda Best as the Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs
Longreads: The Buddy System | Mylène Dressler
Artsy: 3 artists on the role of the Caribbean in environmental art | by Ayanna Dozier
The Blue Moment: Listening to the music of time | by Richard Williams
Other Stuff
NBC New York: 2 arrested for allegedly operating illegal Chinese “Police Station” in NYC | by Jonathan Dienst
Propublica: Developers found graves in the Virginia Woods. Authorities then helped erase the historic Black Cemetery. | by Seth Free Wessler
BBC: Matthew Henson: The US’ unsung Black explorer | by Robert Isenberg
LA Times: Column: The Bob Lee killing in S.F. shows how crime reporting get almost everything wrong | by Michael Hiltzik
Psyche: How to wander | by Jordon Fisher Smith; edited by: Pam Weintraub
Vice: ‘Overemployed’ hustlers exploit ChatGPT to take on even more full-time jobs | Mawxell Strachan
The Guardian: Right-wing extremists defeated by Democrats in US school board elections | by Adam Gabbatt
Psyche: How to wander | by Jordan Fisher Smith
Labor
Two workers from Eastern Europe work on the sidewalk at the Warwick Tube stop, Little Venice. London, England. 2005. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Creative Boom: Documenting the realities of juggling motherhood and a creative career | by Emily Gosling
Bylines CYMRU: The art of Brexterity: the vandalism of one of the UK’s most profitable sectors | by Nick Gammon
The Guardian: They cleaned up BP’s massive oil spill. Now they’re sick and want justice | by Sara Sneath and Oliver Laughland
Rest of World: ChatGPT is taking ghostwriters’ jobs in Kenya | by Martin K.N Siele
ESPN: NFLPA – New injury data shows grass ‘significantly safer’ than turf | by Kevin Seifert
NY Times: They Saw the Horrific Aftermath of a Mass Shooting. Should We? | Jay Kirk
Podcast
UNP: A photographic life, Episode 259: ‘Special conversation’ with Craig Atkinson of Café Royal Books
Books
Mission and 29th Street. San Francisco, California. 19 April 2023 Photo: Robert Gumpert
LA Times: The 26 best books about Los Angeles, ranked | Boris Kachka, Carolyn Kellogg, David Kipen, David L. Ulin
Creative Boom: Out of The Box: Tom Buchanan celebrates the lost art of the collecting in a digital world | by Dom Carter
Conscientious: Lewis Bush’s ‘Depravity’s Rainbow’
Photo-eye: Byker – photographs by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen | by Christopher J Johnson
Social Issues
Shelter. 12th Street between S. Van Ness and Market streets. San Francisco, California 21 April 2023 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Heartland Signal: FBI investigating GOP Okla. Officials caught on tape talking about lynching Black people, murdering newspaper reporters | by Richard Eberwein
Huck: Why we disrupted the Snooker World Championships | by Just Stop Oil
LA Times: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass announces $250-million expansion of homelessness program | by Julia Wick, David Zahniser, Dakota Smith
NY Times: U.S. Was Warned of Migrant Child Labor, but ‘Didn’t Want to Hear It’ | by Hannah Dreier
ProPublica: More than half of America’s 100 richest people exploit special trusts to avoid estate taxes | by Jeff Ernsthausen, James Bandler, Justine Elliott and Patricia Callahan
Texas Observer: 'School Choice' Is Just a Ploy to Defund Public Ed | by David R. Brockman
The Nation: The Oakland A’s Are Moving to Vegas. Could the Yankees Be Next? | Dave Zirin
NY Times: The Fight Over a Drug That Is Great for Horses but Horrific for Humans | by Jan Hoffman
LA Times: Palm Springs ran out Black and Latino families. Some seek reparations | by Gale Holland
The Guardian: A California journalist documents the far-right takeover of her town: ‘We’re a test case’ | by Dani Anguiano
Division Street
Shelter. 13 Street (sometimes referred to as Division) at Isis. San Francisco, California 21 April 2023 Photo: Robert Gumpert
The Guardian: More than 1,300 people died while homeless in UK during 2022 | by Dahaba Ali Hussen
LA Taco: L.A.’s Funding For Homeless Porta Potties and Sinks Is Drying Up | by Lexis-Olivier Ray
The Guardian: ‘We made a nuisance of ourselves’: how Citizens House created real affordable housing – forever! | by Olver Wainwright
LA Times: Judge rejects L.A. County's revamped homeless settlement | by Rebecca Ellis
From “Division Street”, the book
Jula Perez, 42 and children at Compass Family Services. San Francisco, California. 18 December 2019 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Without a home: “A long time.”
How long without a home? “You know I don’t know. It’s been going on for a long time. That’s a complicated question. I was in the shelter a couple weeks, at the moment I’m in a transitional situation. Right now my apartment has mold in it and it’s not good for the babies. I’m dealing with the issues with my landlord but it’s not safe for them so I’m kind of like surfing couches. You think the situation’s fixed, and they’re just patching over the leaks, but there’s mold in the walls. With the babies that’s the hardest. I can’t get emotional because this little guy sees and hears everything. My disposition is very important to his behavior so I try to keep a straight face as much as I can.”
You can read all of Jula’s story and more in “Division Street” published by, and available from Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
10 – 16 April 2023
Bike rack. Owens Street and Nelson Rising LN. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 13 April 2023
Photography
Open Eye Gallery: Photo Ethics with Open Eye Gallery: What is the Role of Social Documentary Ethics in 2023? With Craig Easton, Mariama Attah and Liz Wewiora
Blind: Traveling to space from your backyard – Andrew Rovenko
LFI: Jim Huylebroek: Miners in Afghanistan
Leica Camera Blog: Kim Thue’s Lode
Lens Culture: Looking forward: 20 preview picks for Photo London 2023
The Guardian: Willy Spiller’s Soul train: An eight-year ride on the NY subway | by Mee_lai Stone
It’s Nice That: Photographer Jack Smethers documents the community resisting Tottenham’s gentrification | by Olivia Hingley
Blind: The Healer and the Witch by Christo Geoghegan
Blind: In the eyes of Anthony Barboza | by Miss Rosen
Lensculture: Portrait Awards 2023 – Winners & Finalists
Print: Photographer Joe Horner depi8cts flowers like you’ve never seen them before | by Charlotte Beach
Aesthetica: Important Details: Bladwin Lee in conversation | Interviewer – Chloe Elliott
Monroe Gallery: Sonia Handelman Meyer & Ida Wyman: Two pioneering women photographers of the Photo League
The 19th*: Women Photograph seeks to change representation in photojournalism | by Lydia Chebbine
The New Yorker: The little paper with an outsized visual impact | by Vince Aletti
Blind: This is Britain: The ship is sinking | by Colin Pantall
BLP: Sony World Photography Awards 2023 winners announced, including Marisol Mendez, Federico Kaplan and Edgar Martins | by Izabela Radwanska Zhang
Hyperallergic: AI Portraits of Republicans in Drag to Get You Through the Week | by Sarah Rose Sharp
PetaPixel: Artist Refuses Prize After His AI Image Wins at Top Photo Contest | by Michael Zhang
Culture, Art and Design
LA Times: What's your favorite anti-L.A. insult? There are plenty to choose from | by Pat Morrison
Washington Post: Opinion | Tom Hanks and Jeffery Robinson: The 1876 election launched Jim Crow
Stereogum: Joan Baez sang at Newark Airport with Justin Hones of the Tennessee Three | by Chris Deville
Bidoun: Anger Piled Atop Anger – Iran Diary | by S*
Huck: A revolutionary history of the women written out of punk – book by Jen B. Larson | review by Muss Rosen
Hyperallergic: Florida woman drives Rolls-Royce into $3 Million Damien Hirst Work | by Rhea Nayyar
The White Review: Interview with Akram Zaatari | interviewed by Julia Kozakiewicz
Print: The Daily Heller: Carla Diana Peeks Into AI and Pandora’s Box | by Steven Heller
Print: What’s Bladn and White and Redesigned All Over? The Philadelphia Inquirer | by Charlotte Beach
Print: My Favorite things: What Do You Want? | by Tom Guarriello
SF Chronicle: Bay Area libraries offer glimpse of what America should be | John King
Washington Post: Missouri lawmaker Mike Moon suggests 12-year-olds should be able to marry | by Timothy Bella
Other Stuff
Washington Post: Opinion | Young Democrats are waging war on MAGA from behind enemy lines | by Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman
Esquire: It’s Good to Be a Justice | by Charles P. Pierce
SPL Center: Recently Indicted Maryland Sheriff Has Links to Constitutional Sheriff, Anti-Muslim and Anti-Immigrant Movements | by Rachel Goldwasser
Psyche: Perplexed? Embrace it! Confusion is a symptom of learning | by Juliette Vazard. Edited by Sam Dresser
Psyche: A life of splendid uselessness is a life well lived | by Joseph M. Keegin and edited by Sam Haselby
Bidoun: Heavy Metal – Carnage and commotion in the oil fields of Kirkuk | by Serge Michel; translated by Pedro Jimenez Morras
London Review of Books: Critical Support | by Anonymous
LA Times: Incredible satellite photos show the California super bloom
The Guardian: The modern Republican party is hurtling towards fascism | by Robert Reich
The Guardian: Popularity is optional as Republicans find ways to impose minority rule | by David Smith
Nautilus: Did the James Webb Space Telescope Disprove the Big Bang Theory? |by Lina Zeldovich
Labor
Santa Rosa, California: Bed Bath & Beyond Is Leaving a wake of closing stores on its path to possible bankruptcy – Forbes: 3 Feb, 2023.
Photo: Robert Gumpert - 15 April 2023
LA Times: They take care of aging adults, and make less than minimum wage | by Steve Lopez
Civil Eats: Can cooperatives save Mezcal? | by Annelise Jolley
Bloomberg Law: Unions Report Key Membership Gains in 2022, Filings Show | by Ian Kullgren
Washington Post: An exodus of workers in Silicon Valley is clearing the way for other tech hubs | by Danielle Abril
The Guardian: Hollywood writers vote on strike: ‘At stake is the viability of TV as a career’ | by Michael Sainato
Washington Post: AI technology is coming to Hollywood. The filmmaking town isn't ready | by Pranshu Verma
Headbanging Headlines:
ABC News: There have been more mass shootings (in the U.S.) than days in 2023, database shows
WCT820 Radio: Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries
Podcast
This American Life: Music Lessons with David Sedaris
BBC Food Chain: Is this the end of the British caff?
Books
Washington Post: Four new provocative science fiction novels about the future | by Charlie Jane Anders
Photobook Journal: Another Country | reviewed by Gerhard Clausing
LFI: Wolfgang Bellwinkel: Vast Land
Social Issues
Part of an homeless encampment under the freeway, San Bruno and Division Streets. San Francisco, California Photo Robert Gumpert - 14 April 2023.
The Guardian: ‘I’m terrified’: what does AI Tom Brady mean for the future of media? | by Andrew Lawrence
LA Times: The Daily Caller, far-right media outlet, targets Asian business leaders | by Russ Mitchell
Mixmag: Opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan made available over the counter in the USA | by Isaac Muk
Tech Policy Press: AI Propaganda Will be Effective and Easily Accessible | by Max Rizzuto
Sfgate: I was addicted to fentanyl. Here’s what we should be doing about it | by Madeleine Sweet
WKRN: ‘No signs of slowing’: New CDC data shows STI increase in TN
The Appeal: Georgia man begged for medical care for months before dying in jail, report finds | by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
The Guardian: Disappearing schools, families forced out – and we call this progress | by Aditya Chakrabortty
NY Times: The Republican Strategists Who Have Carefully Planned All of This | by Thomas B. Edsall
NPR: Are the rich causing water shortages with swimming pools? A new study says yes | by Emily Olson
The Guardian: Millions of young adults living in poor quality housing, UK study shows | by Richard Partington
Reuters: Florida to allow death penalty with 8-4 jury vote instead of unanimously
Division Street
On relationships: You know in every relationship you have to go that extra mile, being outside you have to go an extra 20. You never know what can make a couple. It might be a lie that works you into being a couple. It might be an obligation like a child that makes you a couple, there’s soul mates and then there’s people that stay together because they’re good together. There are people that stay together because they’re in love; Mikey and I are in love. I love him so much. He doesn’t see my age. He treats me like an equal no matter what. I know how he feels about me and it makes me feel happy. And happy is what we all seek, to be happy. I’m very lucky that God gives me that. He only gives me that because I put him first in my life. If I didn’t put God first in my life, he wouldn’t give me the things of my heart. If you can find somebody that in life you’re comfortable with, they’re comfortable with you, you should seek that out because it’s very hard to find somebody you can trust, or believe, or have faith in. Mikey does all that for me. He’s there when I need him. He’s there when I don’t need him. I can count on him to be there, that’s what makes our relationship stronger. Mikey and I will probably be together for a long time. We’re both easy. We understand each other, and where we’re coming from. Wes McKinney, 36 years on the street. 28 September 2019 Photo: Robert Gumpert 05 June 2019
From my book, “Division Street”. Order from Dewi Lewis Publishing
03 – 09 April 2023
Along side Islais Creek at 3rd Street. San Francisco, California. 21 July 2021
Photography
Lenscratch: Jim Hill: Small Places | by Aline Smithson
The New Yorker Photo Booth: Who can save the Amazon? | by Jon Lee Anderson Photos by: Larissa Zaidan
The Eye of Photography: PDNB Gallery: Shine!
Blind: The transformative power of portrait | by Miss Rosen
DR Collectif: Errance vulnerable (vulnerable wandering) | text and photos Philippe Blondel
Creative Boom: Photo series tells the story of Wales’ most distinctive local newspaper | by Tom May
Blind: The rise of wildlife photography | by Copélia Marinardi
PhMuseum: The best photography festivals opening this April
The Guardian: A life less ordinary: Roger Bamber’s state of the nation | by Mee’Lee Stone
The Globe and Mail: Worlds on film - The personal is political| by Amber Braken
Lenscratch: Paloma Lounice: Ramona | by Daniel George
BJP: Newcastle’s Side Gallery to close unless new funding secured | by Ravi Ghosh
Aperture: Adraint Bereal – A celebratory chronicle of Black college life | by Casey Gerald
The Guardian: ‘Sweetness and solace’: Baldwin Lee’s portrait of the deep south
Feature Shoot: Photography from Appalachia: 5 Projects Explore a Complex Place
Coffee and Donuts: Essential Workers | Photos and design Robert Gumpert
Culture, Art and Design
French Quarter. New Orleans, Louisiana. April 1972
Hyperalleric: Why did the Old Masters add egg yolk to paint? | by Taylor Michael
Aeon: Honey, I sold the kids | by Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore. Edited by Marina Benjamin
Blind: The people of the South Bronx | by Miss Rosen
The Guardian: Woke the plank! Were pirate ships actually beacons of diversity and democracy? | by Stuart Jeffries
El País: The forgotten men crucified with Jesus at Golgotha | by Fernando Bermejo Rubio
Washington Post: Opinion | Women's basketball wins after Angel Reese gesture toward Caitlin Clark | by Karen Attiah
The Nation: Caitlin Clark’s Lesson for White Athletes: Don’t Be a MAGA Pawn | by Dave Zirin
Other Stuff
ARS Techica: Stable Diffusion copyright lawsuits could be a legal earthquake for AI | by Timothy B. Lee
Washington Post: What happens when ChatGPT lies about real people? | by Pranshu Verma and Will Oremus
ProPublica: The True Dangers of Long Trains | by Dan Schwartz and Topher Sanders, with additional reporting by Gabriel Sandoval and Danelle Morton, graphics by Haisam Hussein
BBC: How mobile phones have changed our brains | by Amanda Ruggeri
Peta Pixel: Webb’s ‘Cosmic Seahorse’ Photo shows gravity bending spacetime | by Jaron Schneider
Chattanooga Times Free Press: Double Standard? Tennessee Republicans seek to oust 3 Democrats | by Kimberlee Kruesi and Jonathan Mattise/AP
European Space Agency: Cosmic seahorse
BBC: How do fish survive in the deep ocean? | by Isabelle Gerretsen
Propublica: Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From GOP Donor | by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
LA Times: Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsides | by Jerry Hirsch
Huck: Jeremy Corbyn isn't going anywhere | text Ben Smoke – Photos: Marc Sethi
Labor
Chicago Sun-Times: Taking a giant leap backward by getting rid of child labor laws | by Gene Lyons
Aeon: Honey, I sold the kids | by Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore. Edited by Marina Benjamin
The Guardian: Workers protest Energizer’s plans to close Wisconsin plants | by Michael Sainato
Headbanging Headlines:
KY3: Missouri House votes to strip state funding from public libraries
InForum: North Dakota senators vote to boost their own meal reimbursements after rejecting free school lunch bill
Podcast
The Documentary (BBC World Service): Deep Waters: Sanctions and the new ‘dark’ fleet
The Documentary (BBC World Service): Deep Waters: The hidden world of global shipping
UNP: A photographic conversation, #257: With Bill Shapiro ‘The personal project part 1’
Ezra Klein Show: Why A.I. might not take your job or supercharge the economy
Books:
PM Press: Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex | Editors: Matilda Bickers, peech breshears, and Janis Luna
PM Press: Labor Power and Strategy | John Womack Jr. • Edited by Peter Olney and Glenn Perušek
Photojournalism Now: Book release – Anders Petersen – Café Lehmitz | by Alison Steiven-Taylor
Photo-eye: William Klein: Yes. | by Brian Arnold
Creative Boom: Type studio Peregrin captures the raw emotion of Qatar 2022 in stunning new photo book | Dom Carter
The Guardian: A national bullying of the poor: the trouble with America’s bootstrapping myth | by Alissa Quart
Social Issues
Tents at a homeless encampment on San Bruno and Alameda Streets. San Francisco, California. 08 July 2022
The Guardian: ACT becomes first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalize illicit drugs in small amounts
Aeon: Honey, I sold the kids | by Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore. Edited by Marina Benjamin
Psyche: Mental health is not an individual matter, but a political one | by Matthew Smith. Edited by Matt Huston
The Guardian: women can’t afford period products. | by Érica Carnevalli
Latino Rebels: White Supremacists, Fentanyl and Meth (Opinion) | by Arturo Dominguez
NY Times: Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See? | by Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Myers
WFLA: Florida school district removes book about Anne Frank from libraries
The Texas Tribune: Gov. Abbott backs call for pardon of Daniel Perry, who killed Austin protester in 2020 | by William Melhado
Division Street
NBC Bay Area: Officer promoted despite video showing what Chief called “unnecessary’ force in San Francisco | Jaxon Van Derbeken, Michael Bott and Jeremy Carroll
Metro Times: Activists ready to defend Detroit woman facing eviction from tiny home | by Steve Neavling
This Is Reno: Man arrested on murder charges after driving his car into homes advocated, killing one | by Bob Conrad
Mission Local: SF program saves two dozen tenants from Ellis Act eviction, but the program works only if funded | by Annika Hom
Paul Rogers, 59 on Willow Street. Mr. Rogers has been unhoused ‘off and on’ for 41 years.
“Any type of services I’ve had, (I’ve had) to debate whether or not I’d take it. The people who are coming to see us, they’re asking us to leave, they’re coming with the police, they’re coming with garbage trucks, telling us we got to go, tents aren’t going to be allowed up. Then they say, but we’ll send you to tent city.”
“Accepting help is alright when the help comes that’s really helping, and not just trying to shove me out of the way. You send somebody in here to talk to us about going someplace - you ask them where can you go. They tell you. You ask them where it is and they say, “Oh I need to call my boss to find out.” What kind of information are you bringing me? If you ain’t got it right, what makes you think I’m going to go someplace you’re telling me to go? I’d rather stay where I’m at. At least I know what’s ahead of me.”
20 March – 02 April 2023
Fresno, California. 24 March 2023 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Photography
Blind: Anders Petersen at Café Lehmitz: The Jukebox Plays On | by Elyssa Goodman
Andrea Gjestvang: Everyone knows this is nowhere
Magnum: Moises Saman - Glad Tidings of Benevolence
Mírame y sé Color: William Eggleston
Conscientious: Another World – review of Ginga ni umeru; photographs by Kenta Nakamura | by Jörg M. Colberg
Lenscratch: Isaiah Winter’s series, “This Land is Your Land,” is a comprehensive multimedia project | by Sara Bennett
Greg Girard: Tokyo Yokosuka 1976 1983 (book)
Blind: Long Live Photography at Art Paris | by Sophie Bernard
Blind: Elliott Erwitt: An Explosion of Color | by Jonas Cuénin
BJP: Picture this: Truth | by Philippa Kelly
Huck: Inside the factories and tower blocks of industrialised China – Kai Löffelbein photos | by Isaac Muk
The Guardian: World Press Photo 2023 contest regional winners
Magnum: Antoine d'Agata • Photographer Profile
Hyperallergic: The most stirring press photographs of 2022 | by Taylor Michael
LFI: Matt Wilson: This place called home
Magnum: Changing Cities
BJP: Editor’s picks: Stories you might have missed in March
Culture, Art and Design
Print: How artist Libby Haines sells her paintings in a matter of seconds | by Chloe Gordon
Hyperallergic: AI image generators finally figured out hands | by Elaine Velie
AnOther: Lee Lozano, the Cult Conceptual painter who left the art world forever | by Finn Blythe
Washington Post: What does an AR-15 do to a human body? A visual examination of the deadly damage. | by N. Kirkpatrick, Atthar Mirza and Manuel Canales
ProFootball Talk: NFL Network opts not to renew contract of Jim Trotter, who had twice confronted the Commissioner on diversity. | by Mike Florio
LA Times: Journalism icon Linda Deutsch on loss of Hollywood clubhouse
NY Times: Gun Violence Has Changed Us
i-D: The New Yorkers fighting to protect Chinatown | by Emma Russell
Creative Boom: Paperville: Food meets paper craft in this adorable series of miniature Duck buildings | by Dom Carter
The Guardian: 20th century Japanese poster art
Washington Post: Review: 'Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America' by Abraham Riesman | by Zack Ruskin
Hyperallergic: How did early modern Euopean craftspeople pass on their knowledge? | by Nageen Shikh
Washington Post: Why do people own AR-15s? 33% of owners cited self-defense, poll finds | by Emily Guskin, Aadit Tambe and Jon Gerberg
LA Times: Vaccines and trust are key to preventing COVID deaths, study finds | by Melissa Healy
BJP: How Vogue and Vanity Fair shaped culture through photograhs | by Ravi Ghosh
Other Stuff
Raw Story: Citing staffing issues and political climate North Idaho hospital will no longer deliver babies | by Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Idaho Capital Sun
BBC Travel: A one-of-a-kind route to Antarctica | by Heather Jasper
Longreads: Age, Sex, Location | by Kira Homsher
SF Chronicle: Lost California lake reemerges after storms, swamping towns and farms | by
Lapham’s Quarterly: Conjunction Dysfunction
McSweeney’s: Ron DeSantis answers questions about your periods | by Miriam Jayaratna and Kathryn Baecht
Design Boom: from ’puffy pope’ to trump’s arrest & russia’s blue plague, fake AI images are going viral | by Myrto Katsikopoulou
The Times of Israel: Ben Gvir reportedly set to detail plan for billion-shekel, 1,800-man national guard
The Guardian: Rupert Murdoch has fueled polarization of society, Barack Obama says | by Elias Visontay
Jacobin: The Problem With AI Is the Problem With Capitalism | by Nathan J. Robinson
Tech Crunch: OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet | by Kyle Wiggers
El País: Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and scientists call for halt to AI rece sparked by ChatGPT
BBC News: Disney sidesteps DeSantis board with royal clause | by Max Matza
LA Times: Disney World lawyers shrewdly outmaneuver DeSantis | by Michael Hiltzik
Washington Post: Census data: D.C., New York see growth after remote-work pandemic loss | by Tara Bahrampour
The Guardian: The Manchester Guardian: the limits of liberalism in the kingdom of cotton | by Michael Taylor, Illustrations Kingsley Nebechi
Washington Post: Proud Boys associates working as U.S. informants being exposed at trial | by Rachel Weiner, Spencer S. Hsu and Hannah Allam
NPR: Italy temporarily bans ChatGPT over privacy concerns | by Juliana Kim
Labor
NY Times: Are We Actually Arguing About Whether 14-Year-Olds Should Work in Meatpacking Plants? | by Terri Gerstein
Child trash picker, Smoking Mountain. Manila, Republic of the Philippines. 1986 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Children sell candy to to drivers waiting to cross into El Paso, Texas U.S.A. from Juarez, Mexico. 1984 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Child harvesting tomatoes in a field on the outskirts of Salinas, California 1988. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Bloomberg Law: The Brief – Top News of the Day: Unions in 2022 Secured Hightest Pay Raises Since 1990, and other stories.
Headbanging Headlines:
BBC: Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage.
Hyperallergic: Prince Harry to Star in New Van Gogh Biopic (1 April)
Podcast
The New Statesman: Why did Silicon Valley Bank collapse?
The Ezra Klein Show: My View of A.I.
UNP: A photographic life, episode 255: ‘Special interview’ with photographer Matt Black
A Small Voice: 201 - Antoine D'Agata
Social Issues
The Appeal: Police killed his son. Prosecutors charged the teen’s friends with his murder. | by Meg O’Connor
The Nation: The NHL Stares Down Bigotry – And Blinks | by Dave Zirin
The Marshall Project: The War on Gun Violence has failed. And Black men are paying the price. | by Lakeidra Chavis and Geoff Hing
The Guardian: ‘People will be disturbed’: Steve McQueen on airing his Grenfell film - Grenfell Tower fire | by Robert Booth
Dezeen: “’Housing for dirty people’ is back and I welcome it” | by Rory Olcayto
NY Times: Eastern Kentucky Needs Flood Relief, Not Another Federal Prison | by Sylvia Ryerson and Judah Schept
NY Times: ‘We’re Going Away’: A State’s Choice to Forgo Medicaid Funds Is Killing Hospitals | by Sharon LaFraniere
Propublica: How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them | by Patrick Rucker, Maya Miller and David Armstrong
The New Yorker: How America Manufactures Poverty | by Margaret Talbot
SF Chronicle: How San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins transformed crime policies | by Susie Neilson
LA Times: The Mexican masked man who fights for migrant worker rights | by Selene Rivera
The Guardian: California police union executive charged with attempting to import opioids | by Lois Beckett
Poynter: Opinion | Why journalists should finally leave Twitter | by Kai Falkenberg
Division Street
Jose working to save his shelter from the rain and wind on San Bruno Avenue and Alameda Street. 21 March 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
NPR: Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor | by Dave Davies
LA Times: Why did the Skid Row Housing Trust collapse? | by Doug Smith, Benjamin Oreskes
NY Times: How Do People Released From Prison Find Housing?
SF Chronicle: SF homeless residents filing more claims over confiscated property | by St. John Barned-Smith
From “Division Street”, the book available now from Dewi Lewis: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
13 December 2018: Sally Conn, 36; Jeremiah Conn, 41; Dawson Conn, 2.
3 months without a home
Sally: “It makes me cry. Home means to me a family, where we’re together and don’t have to move around all the time. Home is the place where me, my husband, my baby can relax, be together, have dinner together.”
Jeremiah: “To be honest with you shelter and home, as long as your family is together that is home. Wherever you lay your head down, that is home to me as long as our family is together.”
13 – 19 March 2023
Member of the writer's workshop. Portland, Oregon. 23 April, 2005 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Photography
The Guardian: ‘It stunned me that people had to live like this’: Baldwin Lee on his rediscovered images of the deep south | Sean O’Hagan
Cultured North East: Remembering Mik Critchlow | by David Whetstone
Leica Camera: Stylist of Reality – Alberto Venzago
i-D: Polaroids of Amsterdam’s bar scene in the 80’s: Marc H. Miller and Bettie Ringma became stables of the city’s nightlife by selling pics for ₤3 a pop. | by Miss Rosen
Danny Dutch: England, through the eyes of Tony Ray-Jones
Photo Booth: Evandro Teixeira - The photographer who saw the brutality and the fragility of authoritarianism | by Alejandro Chacoff
Washington Post In Sight: A photographer’s affection reveals joy in tragedy | by Lauren Bulbin
Blind: Sam Barker – The waste pickers of Dandora | by Max Hirshfeld
Blind: Marcel De Baer - Ghostly Carriages
David Hill Gallery: Baldwin Lee – A Southern Portrait, 1983-89
C4 Journal: Ewan Telford – Ecology of Dreams | by Matt Dunne
WINC: Monumental photography collection of Black Southern life comes to UNC | by Laura Pellicer
The New Yorker: Tina Barney’s searching early work | by Vince Aletti
Culture, Art and Design
Photo: Robert Gumpert 2008
The Guardian: Mona Lisa v ‘the monstrous’: the grotesque, shocking side of Leonardo da Vinci | by Jonathan Jones
Design Boom: Childhood dreams, aliens & cowboys collide in desert X sculptural exhibit at Coachella Valley
Dezeen: Seven Parisian Brutalist buildings that illustrate the movement’s “level of experimentation” | by Amy Peacock
Print: 9 Tasty Food Magazines | by Steven Watson
Huck: Aaron J. Leonard’s The birth and repression of radical music in the 1960s | text by Jeremy Allen
PhMuseum: Rehab Eldalil’s Collaborative celebration of a Bedouin community in Southern Sinai
Aeon: Alexander Jabbari - What we lost with Persianate modernity | edited by Sam Haselby
Creative Boom: Scott Covert’s gravestone artworks function like printing plates | by Fiona Keating
PhMuseum: Jeff Wall’s A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai) Book Review | by Camilla Marrese
Psyche: How the ancient philosophers imagined the end of the world | by Christopher Star – edited by Sam Dresser
El País: Over 100 prehistoric engravings found in a cave in northeastern Spain
Aeon: The problem with English | by Mario Saraceni, edited by Cameron Allan McKean
Mondoweiss: ‘Til Kingdom Come unpacks the power and politics of Christian Zionism | by Jeff Wright
Other Stuff
NY Times: Los Angeles Is a Fantastic Walking City. No, Really. | by Rosecrans Baldwin
Texas Observer: The new children’s crusade: Christian Nationalists grooming kids for the coming culture war } by Josephine Lee
NY Times: Elizabeth Warren: Silicon Valley Bank Is Gone. We Know Who Is Responsible.
Thwaites Glacier: New results provide close-up view of melting underneath Thwaites Glacier
Nature: Suppressed basal melting in the eastern Thwaites Glacier grounding zone
The Guardian: Watch out for hungry bears! Why Elon Musk’s new town could run into trouble | by Arwa Mahdawi
Civil Eats: Supreme Court Case Could Reshape Indigenous Water Rights in the Southwest | by Virginia Gewin
Politico: Inside the Trump world-organized retreat to plot out Biden oversight | by Heidi Przybyla
LA Times: Newsom announces $50-million contract to make California's own brand of insulin | by Taryn Luna, Emily Alpert Reyes
Labor
LA Times: Prop. 22: California appeals court upholds most of gig driver law | by Suhauna Hussain
Rëşt ộf Wŏrld: 60 Days to find a job or leave the country – amid mass layoffs, tech workers in the U.S. on H-1B visas scramble to find new roles. | by Varsha Bansal
Civil Eats: All eyes on California as fast-food worker rights land on the 2024 ballot | by Dana Cronin
Inequality.org: The unconscionable push to bring back child labor | by Tom Conway
MPR News: Minn. investigators allege Madelia meatpacking plant employs young workers in dangerous jobs
Le Monde: Macron opts to force pension bill through Assemblée with no vote
Tribune: Remembering ‘Big’ Jim Larkin | by James T. Farrell
Jacobin: The GOP Pretends to Protect Children — While Literally Promoting Child Labor | by Ben Beckett
The Guardian: Levels of carcinogenic chemical near Ohio derailment site far above safe limit | by Tom Perkins
Washington Post: Explosion at plant in Oakwood Village, Ohio, sparks worry of lead contamination | by Kim Bellware
Headbanging Headlines:
Bible and prisoner in a cell at was then the oldest county jail in California, San Francisco’s CJ 3, AKA “Bruno”. CJ 3 was replaced in 2006 with “New Bruno”. 19 August 2006.
Photo Robert Gumpert
PetaPixel: Humans Beat Out Robots in Photography Contest
The Daily Beast: Kyrsten Sinema Wants Accountability for Silicon Valley Bank Mess. Hand Her a Mirror.
The Guardian: Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in toilet paper around the world
Washington Post: Florida Republicans' bill bans girls from talking about their periods in school
Podcast
Jonathan Pie: Lineka V Braverman
A Small Voice: Conversations with Photographers: #200 Emma Hardy
Social Issues
Lapham’s Quarterly: 2022 San Francisco – How Can We Help? – Bringing community into education | by Jeff Bryant
LA Times: Editorial: The real L.A. model of juvenile justice: Delay, disaster, disgrace
L.A. Times: 8 reported dead after 2 suspected smuggling boats crash at Black’s Beach in San Diego | by Karen Kucher, Alex Riggins
Washington Post: Rasheem Carter: Mississippi Black man chased, then found decapitated | by Timothy Bella
El PaÍs: Imagining a post-neoliberal world, and … | by Francesco Boldizzoni
Huck: The fight against the refugee ban will be won in the streets – No one is illegal | by Ben Smoke – Photography Aiyush Pachnanda
Dazed: It’s official: the UK is in its human rights flop era | text James Greig
NPR: CDC data shows rise in maternal mortality and deaths of Black infants in U.S. | by William Brangham
LA Times: Newsom wants to transform San Quentin using a Scandinavian model | by Anita Chabria – Photography Kent Nishimura
Division Street
Since the Tenderloin Center closed, San Francisco overdose deaths have again jumped. Thirteen hundred block of Bryant Street. San Francisco, California 18 March 2023
Photo Robert Gumpert
MSN: Oakland nabs $1 million to improve poor outcomes for tiny home residents | by Marisa Kendall
Hyperallergic: The Artist Helping Resolve Detroit’s Housing Problems | by Sarah Rose Sharp
LA Times: Bass says 4,000 will be housed during her first 100 days | by David Zahniser
Street Sheet: Stolen Belonging: This is What Accountability Looks like | by Leslie Dreyer
SF Chronicle: After Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin Center closed, S.F. overdose deaths jumped. Here’s what the data shows | by Trisha Thadani, Yoohyun Jung
LA Taco: After a day of rain, the city cleared homeless people from ‘Obama Park’ for a Public Works job fiar | by Lexis-Olivier Ray
7 Days will be off next week, plus 3 days.
06 – 12 March 2023
Paris, France. 13 January 2016 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Photography
Blind: Norther Silence – photos: Cato Lein | by Michaël Naulin
Polka: En Mars, des expos et des festivals á tout-va!
Huck: Inside Oregon’s only locked psychiatric facility for women – Mary Ellen Mark’s Ward 81 | by Miss Rosen
burn.: “Borderlands, an American Journey” | by Francesco Anselmi - Selection by Alejandra Martinez Moreno – Editor/Burn Magazine.
BBC News: Deo Gratias: Ghana photography: Capturing a new nation coming to life | by Damian Zane
Field of View: The Ukrainian Family: PJs document the tragic aftermath of a Russian strike on fleeing civilians | Patrick Witty
Legacy of War: Giles Duley exhibit (YouTube)
BJP: Portrait of Humanity winners announced: “A collective hope for the future” | by Alex Daniel
The Eye of Photography: Reporters Without Borders: Abbas – 100 photos of Abbas for press freedom
Blind: Hip Hop’s Golden Anniversary | by Miss Rosen
Blind: Alex Llovet's Summer Longing
LensCulture: Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023 – Photographers from Around the World
BJP: Meet Leica Women Foto Project’s 2023 winners
El País: When the #blacklivesmatter movement took over New York | Toni García
Story Maps: Picture Me As I Am
Blind: Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Byker – Here to Modernity | by Colin Pantall
Fraction: Family Album by Ramona Jingru Wang
Leica Women Foto Project Award: Winners
Blind: Jack Lueders-Booth - Life Along Boston’s Orange Line Before its Demolition | by Robert E. Gerhardt
Blind: Gabriele Stabile: Hiccups of Memory | Gaia Squarci
Stansbury Forum: Coal by Mik Critchlow who died this week
AnOther: Irving Penn at Bowdoin College Museum of Art | by Miss Rosen
Culture, Art and Design
Cité Soleil, Port au Prince, Haiti 1990 Photo: Robert Gumpert
New York Times: Televised Face Slapping? What Are We Becoming? | by Kurt Streeter
New York Times: The woman who gave Indiana Jones a run for his money | by Joshua Hammer
Print: The Daily Hiller: You can sell a book by its cover | by Steven Heller
Sunu Journal: Caleb Prah
It’s Nice That: Toblerone to use “streamlined” logo after it loses iconic Swiss mountain | by Liz Gorny
The Guardian: ‘If only my tastebuds could paint’: how prison food art reveals life inside | by Guy Atkins
LA Times: Theresa Runstedtler on 'Black Ball' about Kareem, the '70s NBA | by Chris Vognar
Dezeen: “We need to start using our wood more efficiently” | by Maximilian Pramreiter
Print: The Daily Heller: She chronicled the Tired, the Poor, the Hunddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free | by Steven Heller
Creative Boom: New posters by CPB London highlight the sexist double standards in the words we use | by Tom May
Design Boom: this visual diary imagines adaptive structures in regions destroyed by climate change | Matteo Artico and Silvia Fracassi
Dezeen: Richard Rogers’ Channel 4 headquarters among top 10 at-risk UK buildings | by Cajsa Carlson
Dezeen: “Many cities do not work for women” | by Sara Candiracci
Print: The Daily Heller: Drawing Life Where it Lives
Designboom: formafantasm’s exhibition at vitra design museum delves into the past & future of gardens | by Christina Petridou
Huck: Why living 15 minutes from everything is actually good – Where goes the neighbourhood? | by Diyora Shadijanova
NPR: In Florida, far-right groups look to seize the moment | by Sergio Olmos and Jim Urquhart
NY Times: The Radical Act of Eating With Strangers | by Setareh Baig
NPR: Vinyl outsells CDs for the first time since 1987 | by Kaitlyn Radde
Other Stuff
The London Review of Books: Libel Tourism | by Peter Geoghegan
The Texas Observer: Abbott wants to deny undocumented kids a public education | by Josephine Lee
New York Times: Take Threats of ‘National Divorce’ Seriously | by David French
ProPublica: This School Calls the Police on Students Every Other Day | by Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune, and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica
The Guardian: Brexit: EU suppliers wary about doing business in UK, warn manufacturers | by Richard Partington
The Cap Times: Opinion – Workers push public ownership for a safer, stronger rail system | John Nichols
The Guardian: European drug agency opposes Amsterdam’s erotic centre plans | by Jon Henley
El País: Elon Musk’s satellites are running the view of space telescopes: It’s getting worse’ | by Javier Salas
ScienceAlert: Sun Rays Filtering Through Rare Martian Clouds Captured in a Photographic First | by Grace Eliza Goodwin and Morgan McFall-Johnsen
El País: The toxic power of Nayib Bukele | by Carolos S. Maldonado
El País: Anglerfish, the amazing sexual parasites of the abyss | by Laura Comón
LA Times: Who's probing Trump allies’ effort to access voting systems? | by Sarah D. Wire
ProPublica: Private, Conservative Teneo Seeks Political, Cultural Influence | by Andy Kroll and Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented
Deszeen: Researchers make progress that could make carbon capture 3x more efficient | by Jennifer Hahn
Labor
New York Times: You’re Now a ‘Manager.’ Forget About Overtime Pay. | by Noam Scheiber
Louisiana Illuminator: Arkansas bill to remove work permit requirement for children under 16 goes to Sanders’ desk | by Tess Vrbin
Washington Post: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs law loosening child labor protections | by Jacob Bogage
Huck: Amazon’s surveillance culture is ‘breaking’ its workers | by Adele Walton, Photos: Adele Walton
Le Monde: French pension reform sparks rolling strikes in key sectors | by Emeline Cazi, Sophie Fay, and Adrien Pécout
El País: French strikers maintain pressure to reject pension plan
Washington Post: Opinion – We must protect the children by … rolling back child labor laws | by Alexandra Petri
Asheville Citizen Times: Canton mill owners pay dividends, dump stock before layoffs | by Joel Burgess
NY Times: Can the United Farm Workers Rise Again? | by Kurtis Lee and Liliana Michelena
Headbanging Headlines:
TBM: House Oversight chair calls it a ‘mistake’ that US didn’t bomb Mexico during Trump Administration
The Hill: Tesla under investigation after steering wheels fall off while driving
Podcast
UNP: RIP Mik Critchlow: 1955 - 2023
Social Issues
The Marshall Project: A rarely discussed food crisis in Central America could cause massive migration. | John Carlos Frey
Washington Post: A mile-long line for free food offers a warning as covid benefits end | by Tim Craig
Le Monde: Calais, the French bunker border city pushing migrants into the English Channel | by Julia Pascual and Membres du Collectif d’interpellation du Curriculum
Dawn: It wouldn’t be surprising if girls in Pakistan are born saying “sory” and dies saying “thank you” | by Rafia Zakarua
Dawn: Trafficking scourge | by Maria Taimur
NY Times: Man Freed After 18 Years in Prison Caused by Deceptive Photo ID (this headline is not nearly strong enough) | by Hurubie Meko
NPR: This doctor wants to prescribe a cure for homelessness | by Greg Rosalsky
Division Street
Shannen O'Brien, 34. "I've been on the street my whole life, 6 in San Francisco. The city got a hold of me." 13th Street between South Van Ness and Folsom Street. Still raining in San Francisco. San Francisco, California. 5 March 2023 Photo: Robert Gumpert
New York Times: An Ex-D.J. Has a Housing Voucher. He Still Can’t Find a Home. | by Mihir Zaveri
SF Chronicle: Why is SF still struggling to fill its vacant homeless housing?
SF Chronicle: ‘Policing in red rather than blue’: SF street crisis team is in crisis | by Nuala Bishari
Huck: Tenants are being left out in the cold by the cladding crisis | by Jessica Bradley
Mission Local: Public housing tenants neglected amid 15-year HOPE SF rebuild | by Christina A. Macintosh
LA Times: A journey through L.A. County eviction court to avoid homelessness | Paloma Esquivel
SF Chronicle: S.F. woman went to hospital hours before stillbirth at tent site | by Mallory Moench
NY Times: Why Poverty Persists in America | by Matthew Desmond
“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
27 February – 5 March 2023
Photography
The Pickle Family Circus ringmaster in their rehearsal space. San Francisco, California 1994 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Giles Duley: Documentary Photography
Blind: West London’s Working-Class | by Colin Pantall
Aperture: In London, a New Approach to Preserving Britain’s Photographic History and Future | by Holly Black
The Guardian: Richard Sandler’s photos - Between the streets: shades of New York – in pictures | by Mee-Lai Stone
Blind: Eyes of the City, Richard Sandler photos | by Robert E. Gerhardt
Eye: Netherworld of crime expands upon Gordon Parks photo-essay about crime | by Rick Poynor
Howard Greenberg Gallery: Edward Burtynsky: African Studies 4 March – 22 April 2023
The New Yorker: Marwan Bassiouni’s A double view of the world from inside mosques | by M.Z. Adnan
The Eye of Photography: Henryk Ross: The Łódź Ghetto Photographs | by Robert Hirsch
Corentin Fohlen: Portfolio
Columbia Journalism Review: Q&A: Fred Ritchin on AI and the threat to photojournalism no one is talking about
Vanity Fair: When is a photo not a photo? The looming specter of artificially generated photographs | by Fred Ritchin
Walkabouts: Not so much a wild goose chase | by David Collyer
The New Yorker – Photo Booth: A Venezuelan Family’s three-thousand mile journey to NY | Photos: Oscar B Castillo – Text Stephania Taladrid
The Photographers Gallery: A Brief Revolution: photography, architecture and social space in the Manplan project
Centre de la photographie de Mougins: Amexica: Marie Baronnet
Searchlight: Extending the frame: The art, vision and activism of photographer Will Wilson
Giles Duley: Kintsugi
Washington Post – In Sight: Photographer Salih Basheer - This book is a profound meditation on memory and identity | by Kenneth Dickerman
Polka: “The Circuit”. Les Bikers de Bruce Gilden | by Thaïs Jacquet
Huck: Nadia Sablin - Intimate photos of love and loneliness in rural Russia | by Zoe Whitfield
SF Chronicle: Pier 24 Photography to sell famed collection worth more than $15 million | by Tony Bravo
Blind: Lone Men’s Land - Atlantic Cowboy by Andrea Gjestvang
i.D. Stark images of childhood in 80s Thatcher Britain – Craig Easton captured the ripple effects of Thatcher’s Britain, following a family across two generations. | by Ella Joyce
Culture, Art and Design
Flowers. An encampment under I80. 8th Street between Brannon and Bryant, opposite Airbnb. 04 March 2023 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Print: Skeuomorphic Magazine Design Turns Print Into Play | by Steve Watson
Colossal: Surreal interactions and enigmatic narratives unfold in vibrant murals by WAONE | by Kate Mothes
Wallpaper*: David Hockney at Lightroom: a technologically spectacular journey, but is it art? | by Will Jennings
Hyperallergic: Ukraine marks first year of the war with Banksy Stamp | Taylor Michael
Metal: Jail Time Records – A view to freedom | by Mira Wanderlust
Dazed: Portia Munson’s artwork explores mass consumerism and the forces of ‘empowerment and entrapment’ impregnated in constructs of femininity | by Ashleigh Kane
Lapham’s Quarterly: 1851 – New York City | Before the Mast, Herman Melville takes to the sea.
The New Yorker: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder | by David Grann
BBC – Rediscovering America: Kouri-Vini: The return of the US’ lost language – born from the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade | by Tracey Teo
Print: Embalmed in Plastic: The Nuances of Groucho Glasses | Brooke Viegut
Thebluemoment.com: At the Marquee | Richard Williams
Other Stuff
The Guardian: Children among 59 people killed in sailboat off Italy’s coast | Angela Giuffrida
The Dawn: 16 of 20 Pakistani survivors of Italian shipwreck in ‘good physical condition’: Foreign Office says
The Express Tribune: At least three Pakistanis perish in boat wreck near Libya
EL PAÍS: From Lampedusa to Calabria: 10 years of immigration policy failures | by DANIEL VERDÚ
LeMonde: How a Portuguese citizenship loophole became a door into the EU | by Raphaëlle Rérolle
Le Monde: What is the Northern Ireland protocol, a revision of which the EU and Britain have just signed?
The Guardian: Sunak draws ire after hailing Northern Ireland’s access to UK and EU markets | by Peter Walker
The Guardian: This deal could have been struck in 2021 – but the last thing Brexiters wanted was to get Brexit done | by Fintan O’Toole
NY Times: Sunak Hopes to Move Past Brexit, at Long Last, With E.U. Deal | by Mark Lander
The New Statesman: Rishi Sunak has proved himself – but trouble still lies ahead | by Andrew Marr
Byline Times: Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal shows what Britain lost by leaving the EU | by Adam Bienkov
Dezeen: Everything you need to know about Saudi mega-project Neom | by Tom Ravenscroft
Psyche: Practice ‘intuitive eating’ and feel a lot happier about food | by Charlotte H Markey
The Guardian: A fake news frenzy: why ChatGPT could be disastrous for truth in journalism | by Emily Bell
NY Times: Once the World’s Largest, a Hotel Goes ‘Poof!’ Before Our Eyes | Dan Barry
Insider: Forget the ‘death of downtowns’ – we’re about to experience the Big City Renaissance | Matthew I. Kahn and Christopher Okada
100 Days In Appalachia: 'When the Water Goes Down': Eight Months Later, Eastern Kentucky Is Still Healing | by Skylar Baker-Jordon and P.B. Cooley
Labor
Huck: The forgotten charity workers on strike to survive | by Ell Glover
The Hollywood Reporter: VFX Workers’ Union Effort Picks Up Where Last Reckoning Left Off | Katie Kilkenny, Carolyn Giardina
The Guardian: No family rooms and a rat infestation: NFL players list team gripes
Portside: The Longest Strike in the U.S. Just Ended: This Is the Workers’ Story | Kim Kelly
The Guardian: Caledonian Sleeper rail service to be nationalised by Scottish ministers | by Tom Ambrose
Washington Post: Child labor unravels one immigrant family, company faces no criminal charges | by Maria Sacchetti and Lauren Kaori Gurley
Headbanging Headlines:
Florida Politics: Sen. Blaise Ingoglia bill (SB 1248) would 'cancel' Democratic Party | by Mike Wright
WFLA: Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state
Podcast
The Food Program: One Armed Chef: The Food Adventures of Giles Duley | presented by Dan Saladino
The Marshall Project: Police Shootings in Rural America | Lawrence Bartley and Donald Washington, Jr.
BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week: Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks with Bernie Sanders, Martin Wolf and Kate Raworth
Ear Hustle: Episode 85: Dream On
Social Issues
LA Times: How Akuna Robinson hiked three of the most challenging U.S. trails | Dakota Kim
Washington Post: Opinion | El Salvador's massive prison shows Bukele's emerging police state | by León Krauze
NY Times: Rural Hospitals Are Shuttering Their Maternity Units | by Roni Caryn Rabin
Portside: ‘Trail of Broken Treaties’: How the 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation came to be | by Matt Gade
Documented: Rightwing group pours millions in ‘Dark Money’ into US voter suppression bid | by Brendan Fischer, Ed Pilkington (The Guardian)
Washington Post: North Carolina gerrymandering case needs more briefs, Supreme Court says | Robert Barnes
Brennan Center: Voting Laws Roundup: February 2023
Washington Post: Opinion | El Salvador's massive prison shows Bukele's emerging police state
Nautilus: The Misguided History of Racial Medicine | by Joseph L. Graves
Boston.com: Advocates continue to push for safe injection sites in Massachusetts | by Dialynn Dwyer
Pew Research Center: Immigrants and children of immigrants make up at least 15% of the 118th Congress | by Janakee Chavda
Division Street
Saturday, 4 March, it rained. A hard rain. The I80 flyover offers some protection from the rain but not from the temperatures dipping as low as 39 degrees (F). A city “Hot Team” came by and said there was space in the emergency shelters if people would go register. Christopher Z, 47 and unhoused “this time” since 2010, opted to remain with his belongings on the street. Very early Sunday morning the rains came again, even harder. Christopher and his belongings remained on 8th Street between Brannon and Bryant, opposite Airbnb. 04 March 2023 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Chris Herring: Research on homelessness
International Network of Street Papers: Inside plans for Glasgow’s support centre for women experiencing homelessness
Wtopnews: DC is ready to clear 20,000 names from waitlist, and reopen public housing applications | Megan Cloherty
20 February – 26 February 2023
Division Street
Tent on 14th and Harrison, along the 101 corridor, San Francisco, California. 24 February 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Sleeping rough on Division Street, under the 101, just east of Bryant. 24 February 2023 Photo: Robert Gumpert
John Kenton Bassett, 52. Mr Bassett has been unhoused in San Francisco off and on since 1998. Division Street, under the 101, near Potrero Avenue. San Francisco, California. 24 February 2023
Photo: Robert Gumpert
Bitter cold winds will usher a chance for some snow - Look for rounds of rain and thunderstorms during the day - After a cold day with highs in the mid-40s, nighttime temperatures along the water will fall to the 40 degree mark, while temperatures along Castro Street and the Highway 101 corridor fall to the upper 30s. - These bitter-cold nighttime temperatures and precipitation all pose a hypothermia risk to unsheltered populations, especially near downtown. San Francisco could see snow tonight for the first time in nearly 50 years. (SF Chronicle 23 Feb 2023
Photography
From the poster wall of the old Mission District Police Station on Valencia. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Blind: Sabyl Ghoussoub: “Gabriele Basilico has captured Beirut” | by Michaël Naulin
LFI: Vincent Enot: Up North
Hyperallergic: Film Review: New York’s Trans Sex Workers Tell Their Stories | by Ban Schindel
Hyperallergic: Book: The Preserved Beauty of Italian Island Traditions. Photos by Alys Thomlinson | by Lauren Moya Ford
Conscientious: Book: “On Rape” by Laia Abril, published by Dewi Lewis
The Guardian: Reggie Mcgoon photos: The trans ‘queen mother’ reclaiming Fiji’s third gender | by Katie Edwards
The Guardian: Two weeks after the Turkey-Syria earthquakes – a photo essay | Photos by Alessio Mamo; words: Lorenzo Tondo and Ruth Michaelson
i-D: How Robert Frank’s work inspired a generation of photographers | by Zoe Whitfield
Blind: Revue Noire, history of African photography | by Miss Rosen
LA Times: A year of war: Los Angeles Times photographers document the battle in Ukraine
LFI: Karine Zenja Versluis: Debaltsevo, Where Are You?
Lenscratch: Portrait Week: Chris Bartlett: Iraqi Detainees: Ordinary people. Extraordinary ordeals | Aline Smithson
Document: Mark Abegg captures the faces of Ukraine
Lens Culture: Wearing the Inside Out – A gentle meditation on motherhood and female identity | Photos and Words: Hady Barry
i-D: Photographing love and desire in Senegal – Photos Charlotte Yonga | by Emma Russell
Polka: Les Soldats et les assassins – photos by & interview with Maxim Dondyuk | par Alain Genestar
NY Times: Three Years Into Covid, We Still Don’t Know How to Talk About It
Field of View: The Apocalypse of East Palestine | by Patrick Witty
Washington Post: ‘What We See,’ Women Photograph’s inaugural photobook | by Kenneth Dickerman
Blind: Ukrainian Youth: Stuck in a year of war
Magnum: A Year in Ukraine – Liza Premiyak talks to some of the Magnum photogs who have covered the war
Aperture: Picturing the American Family, From Frederick Douglas to Jamel Shabazz | In conversation Rhea L. Combs and Deborah Willis
The New Yorker: The life and death of a Ukrainian photographer | by David Kortava
Culture, Art and Design
Male worker hostel. Alexandra township, also known as Alex, in Johannesburg Metro Municipality. South Africa 1991. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Hyperallergic: AI, WTF Do You Know About Pain? | by Noah Fischer
Kanas Reflector: 'No future!' If Rep. Kristey Williams has her way, there won't be a next generation of Kansans | by Clay Wirestone
The Guardian: We get 28 days for Black history in the US – but every month is White History Month | by Steve Phillips
Washington Post: Perspective | Matisse's 'The Piano Lesson' at MoMA may be his greatest masterpiece | by Sebastian Smee
LA Times: Authenticity key difference between 1930's and 2022's 'All Quiet | by Chris Vognar
Flashbak: Hunting the wale terrorists of Edo Period Japan | by Sheldon D.
The Bitter Southerner: Krewe Da Bhan Gras: Diversifies New Orleans’ Carnival with South Asian Style | by Ashley Cusik – Photos Kathleen Flynn
LRB: The Reaction Economy | by Willian Davies
Colossal: Detailed Illustrations Brim with Manic Mayhem in Mattias Adolfsson’s Exuberant Sketchbooks | by Kate Mothes
Print: If You’re Not at a Public Library Right Now, You Should Be | by Charlotte Beach
My Modern Met: Popular Instagram Photographer Confesses That His Work is AI-Generated | by Jessica Stewart
Other Stuff
LA Times: After more than 40 years, end of the road for Southern California’s Cal Worthington car dealership | by Louis Sahagun
Wired: How to Protect Yourself from Twitter’s 2FA Crackdown | by Matt Burgess
Civil Eats: Could This Mobile, Solar-Powered Livestock Barn Reshape the Corn Belt? | by Twilight Greenaway
Washington Post: Why does the South have such ugly credit scores? | Andrew Van Dam
LA Times: California's freedman's town looks to build a better future | by Brennon Dixson
Washington Post: Opinion | Female journalists face escalating online abuse
Lapham’s Quarterly: W.H. Auden’s surprising gift
Space: The James Webb Space Telescope discovers enormous distant galaxies that should not exist | by Tereza Pultarova
Psyche: How to nap | by Ruth Leong & Michael Chee
Nautilus: Hear the wind on Mars | by Katherine Harmon Courage
Foreign Policy: Disunited Kingdom: Will Nationalism Break Britain? | by Fintan O’Toole
Washington Post: ‘Christian patriots’ are flocking from blue states to Idaho | by Jack Jenkins
Washington Post: Strange DNA found in the desert offers lessons in the hunt for Mars life | by Joel Achenbach
Labor
Miners on their way to work. South Africa, 1991 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Wired: Workers Are Dying in the EV Industry’s ‘Tainted’ City | Peter Yeung
Jacobin: The Labor Movement Must Learn How to Exploit “Choke Points”
Rest of World: AI voice acting, trained by actual voice actors, is on the rise | by Lucía Cholakian Herrera and Facundo Iglesia
SF Chronicle: How much should you tip? No one wants to hear the real answer | by Soleil Ho
NPR: Black farmers were left behind from USDA programs in 2022 | by Ximena Bustillo
The New Yorker: The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines | Kimon de Greef
NPR: NPR to cut jobs by 10% as ad revenue drops
NY Times: Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. | by Hannah Dreier – Photos Kirsten Luce
Jacobin: GOP State Legislators Want to Bring Back Child Labor | by Ben Burgis
Headbanging Headlines:
NY Times: ‘Lethargic’ Alligator Rescued From Prospect Park Lake
Vice: GOP Elects QAnon Conspiracist Who Thinks Yoga Is Satanic as Party Chair in Michigan
Fox News: Florida news crew shot while covering shooting near Orlando, 2 dead, (a 9-year-old and a reporter)
Podcast
Acorn Radio: Wade’s World: Interview with John Womack and Peter Olney
The Photowalk: #370: Dave Brosha - Misadventures with a camera
PBS News Hour: Images of ‘Black life, Black joy,’ are immortalized in historic Charlottesville portraits | by Nicole Ellis - John Edwin Mason, curator
Social Issues
Sign for universal healthcare in a storefront window on Cortland and Prospect Avenues in Bernal Heights. San Francisco, California 08 February 2023 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Sleeping rough “in the shadow of the Bay Bridge” on the Embarcadero at Harrison Street. San Francisco, California 08 May 2021 Photo: Robert Gumpert
LA Times: ‘He baked’: Heat waves are killing more L.A. homeless people who can’t escape broiling sun | by Summer Lin
LA Times: A California grant that helped syringe programs is drying up | by Emily Alpert Reyes
The New Yorker: Survivors of solitary confinement tell their stories in “The Box” | Film by James Burns and Shal Ngo. Text by Jackson Vail
SF Standard: Homeless San Franciscans Sue the City for Thousands in Lost Property | by David Sjostedt
LA Times: Column: A $526 gas bill further cripples WWII vet's tight budget | by Steve Lopez
The Marshall Project: How ‘Cruel and Not Unusual’ Conditions Persist in Many Lockups | by Jamiles Lartey
Huck: Tenants, unions and politicians back calls for a rent freeze | by Ben Smoke
Field of View: The Apocalypse of East Palestine | by Patrick Witty
Texas Observer: Texas Strikes Deal to Build Abbott’s Border Wall on Big Donor’s Ranch | by Justin Miller
The Marshall Project: How Survivors of Jon Burge’s Police Torture Won Reparations in Chicago | by Natalie Y. Moore
LA Times: L.A. homeless people finding refuge of their own in historic storm | by Ruben Vives, Summer Lin, Rachel Uranga, Doug Smith
“Division Street” – Published by Dewi Lewis: Orders: U.S.A – Britain - Canada
13 February – 19 February 2023
When an unhoused person left a fire unattended to find wood for a warming fire, the fire spread to the tent and his belonging. No one was injured but the tent and belongings were destroyed. A cold morning on San Bruno, a block from Division Street. San Francisco, California 19 February 2023 Photo Robert Gumpert
Photography
Greg Girard: Website
Blind: Zanele Muholi: A Lioness in Paris | Clara Bastid
Blind: Unframing Colonialism: Images Out of Sync | by Iris Mandret
LFI: Werner Mantz: The Perfect Eye
Magnum: Chris Killip’s Enduring Connection With the People he Photographed
Blind: Honor your Father and Mother | by Fabiana Sala
Blind: We Cry in Silence | by Robert E. Gerhardt
BJP: Kalpesh Lathigra’s passport photos question issues of egalitarianism, hierarchy, and privilege | by Gen Fletcher
Howard Greenberg Gallery: Edward Burtynsky: African Studies
The New Yorker: Photographer Jeremy Dennis: A landscape shared by Native Americans and the one per cent | by Robert Sullivan
The New Yorker: An interview with Stephen Shore | by Peter Schjedahl
BJP: Free to leave: Photographing a generation changed by migration | Liza Premiyak
Polka: ALESSANDRO CINQUE, LAURÉAT DU GRAND PRIX PHOTO TERRE SOLIDAIRE | by Dimitri Beck
The Lifeboat Station Project: “Right, Connie, Make Some Noise!”, the years long project by Jack Lowe
Aperture: The Photographers Who Showed the Whimsy and Eros of Ukraine before the War | by Elianna Kan
The Black Space Project: A collaboration between Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin & Tryee Boyd-Pates
Culture, Art and Design
Alta Plaza Park in Pacific Heights. San Francisco, California. 14 February 2023 Photo Robert Gumpert
PEW Research Center: 70% of White evangelical parents say it’s very important that their kids have similar religious beliefs to theirs | Stephanie Kraamer
McSweeneys: Since when is it not okay to kick a guy in the balls anymore? | by Kathryn Baecht
NY Review of Books: 'Hit the Line Hard' | Jake Nevins
Washington Post: Teen girls ‘engulfed’ in violence and trauma, CDC finds | by Donna St. George
Vulture: Doc Filmmakers Reckon With the Industry’s Murky Ethics | by Reeves Wiedeman
The Bluemoment: Sounds of the Lace Market | by Richard Williams
Creative Boom: Maria Skog’s incredible crocheted food is a sumptuous feat for the eyes | by Dom Carter
Dezeen: Saudi Arabia unveils giant cube-shaped supertall skyscraper for downtown Riyadh | by Tom Ravenscroft
Hyperallergic: Edward Hopper’s Views of Isolation | by Ekin Erkan
Hyperallergic: What is hospitality in an era of crises? | by Gregory Volk
NY Times: Our Age of Impunity: When laws and norms are for suckers | by David Milliband
Creative Boom: Super Bowl LVII: Did brands play it safe to win big? | by Chelsey Pippin
Literary Hub: BookTok is Good, Actually: On the undersung Joys of a vast and multifarious platform | Leigh Stein
Other Stuff
PEW Research Center: The changing face of Congress in 8 charts | Katherine Scheffer
Phys.org: New models shed light on life’s origin | by Lindsey Valich
The New Yorker: The Forgotten History of Head Injuries in Sports | by Ingfei Chen
EL PAÍS: Gourmet Neanderthals cooked seafood and joined forces with other clans to hunt giant elephants | Jon Gurutz Arranz
LA Times: Untold stories. Secret histories. A living archive of L.A.
Washington Post: Gen Z isn’t interested in driving. Will that last? | by Shannon Osaka
The Guardian: Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections | by Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Mannish Ganguly, David Pegg, Carole Chadwalladr, and Jason Burke
Vox: It looks like people are actually moving back to San Francisco | by Rani Molla
Washington Post: Microsoft's new Bing A.I. chatbot, 'Sydney', is acting unhinged | by Gerrit De Vynck, Rachel Lerman and Nitasha Tiku
The Marshall Project: It’s Not Just a Police Problem, Americans Are Opting Out of Government Jobs | Daphne Duret and Weihua Li
Pew Research Center: Public Awareness of Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Activities | by Brian Kennedy, Alex Tyson and Emily Saks
Hyperallergic: Nazi Symbol Appears on Fence Outside LACMA | by Taylor Michael
The Texas Observer: $3 Million Whistleblower Settlement Is Cheap Getaway for Ken Paxton | Justin Miller
Labor
Construction workers. Larkana, Pakistan 1988 Photo Robert Gumpert
Washington Post: Iowa, Minnesota consider loosening child labor laws as job market tightens | by Jacob Bogage
Washington Post: U.S. fines firm $1.5 million for hiring kids to clean meatpacking plants | by Lauren Kaori Gurley
BBC: Mars Wrigley factory fined after two workers fall into chocolate vat | by Max Matza
Le Monde: Super Bowl: The NFL is a cash machine in the hands of a few US billionaires | Arnaud Leparmentier
NPR: While many students aim for college, high-paying trade jobs sit empty | Jon Marcus
NY Times: Combating Disinformation Wanes at Social Media Giants | Steven Lee Myers and Nico Grant
Dezeen: Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build “Project Amazing” subdivision near Texas factory to house its employees | Ben Dreith
USA Today: Eric Bieniemy going to Washington Commanders is embarrassing for NFL | by Mike Freeman
Podcast
BBC Outlook: Fergal Keane: Breaking my addiction to war
BBC Hardtalk: Mick Lynchy leader of Britain’s biggest rail union the RMT
Social Issues
Two friends, Jane, 30, unhoused for about 1 month, and Milo Richard, 65, unhoused for 5 years, chat on a cold morning. San Bruno and Division Street encampment. San Francisco, California 19 February 2023 Photo Robert Gumpert
Texas Observer: An abolitionist gets canned for upholding the values of social work | by Alan Dettlaff
Washington Post: Opinion | Shipping containers are becoming part of the homelessness solution
NY Times: What’s Homelessness Really Like? Thirty people answer questions and share their experiences.
Invisible People: My First Night Homeless.
The Guardian: ‘Unsung hero’: the baker and activist whose death inspired calls for restorative justice | by Sam Levin