7 Days: 27 November - 03 December 2023
Photography
After burying a family member, one last portrait of everyone, together.. A Chinese funeral in San Francisco, started with a parade of musicians and mourners through Chinatown. Colma, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 2002
Blind: Larry Fink, Photographer of the American Society, Dies at 82 | by Miss Rosen
Blind: Elliott Erwitt, Master Photographer from Magnum Photos, Dies at 95 | by Jonas Cuénin
The Eye of Photography: Steidl: Evelyn Hofer: Dublin
Blind: Miron Zownir - An Unsparing Look at the Brutality of Fascism | by Miss Rosen
Designboom: Peter Ash Lee - the last mermaid by peter ash lee is a visual tribute to jeju island's fearless female divers
Huck: Meet the next generation of South Korean Seawomen | text and photos Louise Krüger
VU: Lys Arango
i-D: Daniel Arnold’s life in photos | by Zoe Whitfield
Metal: Gail Thacker - Fearlessly Alive | by Charlotte Macchi Watts - Portrait Alice O’Malley
AnOther: Evelyn Richter’s Photos Reveal the Reality of Life in East Germany | by Lydia Figes
UNP: Audio: RIP Ross McDonnell 1979-2023
PhMuseum: Louise Amelie’s Missing Member - Kyrgyzstan. A Country On The Move
The New Yorker: The Dead Children We Must See | by Jay Caspian King
BJP: ‘With a documentary, you’re beholden to the truth’: Director Paul Sag on telling Tish’s story | by Ravi Ghosh
Huck: New exhibition Meeting at the Volta celebrates the revolutionary energy of youth across generations. - photos by Sanlè Sory, Kyle Weeks | text Miss Rosen. Exhibit extended to 22 Dec at David Hill Gallery/London
The Guardian: Michael Spry - master printer obituary | by Laurie Lewis
Aperture: Alex Webb on Reimagining a Photobook, Twenty-Five Years Later
Magnum: Three Voices From Palestine Curated by Myriam Boulos
Leica Camera Blog: Lys Arango - The River Ran Black
Fraction: Larry W. Cook - Horizons
Aperture: An-My Lê on Vietnam, the Chaos of War, and the Tangibility of Memory by Hilton Als
Lens Culture: Living in the Transition | Photographs by Shunta Kimura
Text by Magali Duzant
AP: The year in photos: AP’s most memorable photos of 2023
Culture, Art and Design
Two shoppers check out the TVs and programs in Costco. Omaha, Nebraska. Photo Robert Gumpert 21 December 2021
The Oxford American: Coding and Decoding Dinner | by Todd Kliman
Nautilus: What Should We Do With an Old Sea Shanty? | by Katy Kelleher
The New Yorker: The Twilight of Prestige Television | by Michael Schulman
Hyperallergic: Artists Won’t Give Up the Fight as New Chinatown Jail Looms | by Jess Zhang
It’s Nice That: The Sow AR app exposes companies and brands with strong ties to industrial meat farming, taking over six locations across the UK. | by Liz Gorny
Print: Design Matters - Dario Calmese (artist-photographer-writer) | by Chloe Gordon
JSTOR: Maps, Power, and Identity | by Jon Felt
BBC: Turnip Prize 2023: Spoof arts award finalists announced | by Louis Inglis
Creative Boom: Bjoern Altmann's new book celebrates the overlooked beauty of manhole covers | by Dom Carter
Metropolis: Brooklyn Museum Presents an Exhibition of Artist-Made Zines | by Joseph P. Sgambati III
AnOther: Wayne McGregor’s Compelling Adaptation of Dante’s Divine Comedy | by Sophie Bew, Photos Mary McCartney
Print: The Daily Heller: Looking at Now to Predict the Future Then
Hyperallergic: Frederick Wiseman’s Bucket List Included Making a Restaurant Doc | Interview
The New Yorker: Frederick Wiseman in Paradise | by David Denby
Texas Monthly: Two Texas-Style Joints Near D.C. Are Practicing Barbecue Diplomacy | by Daniel Vaughn
Peta Pixel: Photographer Made a Working Instant Film Camera Out of Gingerbread | by Matt Growcoot
Huck: The London Cultural Institution Under Threat of Closure | text/photos Mia Cordova
LA Times: A forgotten amusement park made by famous artists reemerges | by Todd Martens
Other Stuff
Edhi Center Mental “institution” just outside of Karachi. Operated by the Edhi Center, a national private social service organization in Pakistan. Photo Robert Gumpert 1988
The Guardian: Where are all the ‘godmothers’ of AI? Women’s voices are not being heard | by Luba Kassova
AP: Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. A legacy law gives him few guardrails | by Gary Fields
SF Chronicle: These Bay Area Ghost kitchens are out of control, neighbors say | by Georgia Freedman
TPM: Trump Judges Decimate Voting Rights Act After Supreme Court Bat Signal | by Kate Riga
The Atlantic: Photos: The Growth of Solar-Power Stations
El País: Money imposes its law on OpenAI | by Miguel Jiménez
Bidoun: The Work of Sport in the Age of International Acquisition | by Alexander Provan
Washington Post: Astronomers discover six planets orbiting a nearby sun-like star | by Joel Achenbach
In These Times: The Rise of the Far Right Is a Global Phenomenon | by Alberto Toscano
Science: Materials-predicting AI from DeepMind could revolutionize electronics, batteries, and solar cells | by Robert F. Service
NY Times: Elon Musk Is Making a Giant Mistake … Unless? | by Peter Coy
Labor
Rëşt ôf Wǒrld: Sri Lanka tech workers demand pay in dollars or euros after rupee crashes - Entrepreneurs say local talent is too expensive and are outsourcing to countries like Peru. | by Dimuthu Attanayake and Zuha Siddiqui
In These Times: NY Supreme Court Blocked Association of Legal Aid Attorneys – UAW Local 2325, From Voting on a Pro-Palestine Resolution | by Maximillian Alvarez
The Guardian: ‘It should never have happened’: death of boy, 16, at sawmill highlights rise of child labour in US | by Eric Berger
Le Monde: Indian workers are rescued from tunnel after 17 days
NY Times: U.A.W. Announces Drive to Organize Nonunion Plants | by Neal E. Boudette
CPJ: Israel-Gaza War
When the Headline is More Than Enough
Rolling Stone: Good Riddance - Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies
SF Chronicle: Who won the Newsom DeSantis debate? Unhinged male rage
NY Times: What’s Next for George Santos? Court Dates and, Maybe, Reality TV
Podcast
Design Matters: Debbie Millman interviews Pete Souza
BBC-The Reith Lectures: Professor Ben Ansell “Our Democratic Future”
Photowalk: #410 Empathy and a fascination for people with Roger Hutchens (2 parts: 1st starts at about 32:30, 2nd starts at about 1:29:00)
ProPublica: We Don’t Talk About Leonard | by Andrea Bernstein, Andy Kroll and Ilya Marritz
The Conversation: Why are brown and Black people supporting the far right?
Books
Family search about in the ruins of Sutro Baths at Point Lobos. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 3 January 2021
Aperture: Announcing the Winners of the 2023 PhotoBook Awards
PhMuseum: Photobook Review: Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography | by Colin Pantall
The New Yorker: The Best Books of 2023
Photo-eye: 2023 Favorite Photo Books
Social Issues
Winter grocery shopping in Omaha, Nebraska. Photo Robert Gumpert 24 December 2015
Texas Observer: Braving “La Bestia” | by Jordan Vonderhaar
The Dial: The Law of the Sea | by Surabhi Ranganathan
Mountain State Spotlight: West Virginia to pay $4 million to settle lawsuit over conditions in Southern Regional Jail | by La Shawn Pagán
48 Hills: Housing bill that makes no sense at all moves forward with reluctant committee vote | by Tim Redmond
KQED: Emails Reveal SF Officials’ Coordinated Efforts Against Unhoused People | by Juan Carlos Lara
Bitter Southerner: Chefs on Boats: Finding the Feeding Waters | by Boyce Uphold, photos Rory Doyle
Texas Monthly: What Can Public Transit Deserts Learn From Paris, Texas? | by Joelle DiPaolo
Metropolis: The Past, Present, and Future of Public Outdoor Space | by Nigel F. Maynard - Rebecca Greewald
Division Street
Home in Pacific Heights where the home price distribution is from about $3.9m to $35m. Median rent for 1 bedroom apartment: 3200/month. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 15 March 2023
Washington Post: Where we build homes helps explain America’s political divide | by Andrew Van Dam
High Country News: Has Montana solved its housing crisis? | by Susan Shain
Mountain State Spotlight: West Virginia’s growing Eastern Panhandle is becoming too expensive for its poorest residents | by P.R. Lockhart
The Dial: Karachi 2060: The road to the city of the future: evictions, demolitions and land reclamation. | by Alizeh Kohari
dezeen: "The tide may finally be turning against knocking down social-housing estates” | by Anna Minton
dezeen: "'Housing for dirty people' is back and I welcome it” | by Rory Olcayto
Metropolis: Are Shipping Containers the Future of Affordable Housing? | by Sam Lubell
LA Times: L.A. police search for assailant in fatal shootings of homeless people | by Ruben Vives, Richard Winton, Jeremy Childs, James Queally
ABC News: 3 men experiencing homelessness fatally shot by potential serial killer in Los Angeles: Police
SF Chronicle: I just saved someone’s life on San Francisco’s streets. I wish I didn’t have to. The city’s failure to create a cohesive response to its overdose crisis means that everyday citizens have to step up
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7 Days: 20 November - 26 November 2023
Pastry chef at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1999
Photography
The Globe and Mail: War keeps changing, the view stays the same | by Corrine Dufka (she was interviewed on A Small Voice)
D C Moore Gallery: Magritte + Warhol by Duane Michals November 16 – December 21, 2023
The Lecia Blog: Byways. The Photographs of Roger Deakins
Lenscratch: Native American Heritage Week: Cara Romero | by Donna Garcia
Lenscratch: Native American Heritage Week: Interview with Jill Ahlberg Yohe | by Donna Garcia
Lenscratch: Native American Heritage Week: Michael Namingha | by Donna Garcia
Aperture: A Screenwriter’s Forgotten Photographs of American Televisions | by Jackson Davidow
The Guardian: ‘It’s always us who pay the price’: displaced by DRC’s endless cycle of war | by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
NY Times: Harsh Visuals of War Leave Newsrooms Facing Tough Choices | by Michael M. Grynbaum and Katie Robertson
Field of View: This Photograph Demands to Be Seen Graphic photos of dead children will not end war; neither will sanitizing them. | by Patrick Witty
Time: TIME’s Top 100 Photos of 2023
It’s Nice That: Nadezda Nikolova’s camera-less photography is both familiar and out of this world | by Yaya Azariah Clarke
U British Columbia: Re-Developing the work of B.A. Haldane, 19th Century Tsimshian Photographer | by Dr. Mique’l Dangeli, PhD Adjunct Professor of First Nations Studies UNBC
Howard Greenberg Gallery: Play Ball
Blind: “The Black Triangle” of Armet Francis | by Miss Rosen
LFI: Community Lightbox 8/2023
Field of View: The Execution of The Assassin | by Patrick Witty
The Guardian: Merrick Morton - Tales from the hood: LA’s street gang culture | by Sarah Gilbert
i-D: What vintage paparazzi photos teach us about the birth of celebrity culture | by Millen Brown-Ewens
Culture, Art and Design
Tattoos. San Francisco County Jai, San Bruno, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 13 September 2009
Aperture: The Oppositional Energy of Zines | by Jesse Dorris
Aperture: A Feminist Memory Project in Nepal | Interviews by Varun Nayar
The Guardian: That’s not a potato: mystery of Egyptian treasures found buried in grounds of Scottish school | by Dalya Alberge
Washington Post: Greenbelt, future home of the FBI, was planned as a New Deal utopia | by Petula Dvorak
Engadget: Webb telescope images show an unprecedented and 'chaotic' view of the center of our galaxy | by Lawrence Bonk
It’s Nice That: How The Guardian designed its thoughtful new long-form mag | by Liz Gorny
Huck: Last week the Copwatch Network hacked ads across the capital to expose the role of politicians, business people and media figures in the oppression of Palestine.
Print: The Daily Heller: Bob Dylan’s Back Pages | by Steven Heller
Artsy: Rose B. Simpson Harnesses the Power of Community in Life-Sized Clay Sculptures | by Sandra Hale Schulman
Flashbak: Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do Lists From His Inspired Notebooks - The great artist and visionary recored his idea in notebooks which we can now read
NY Times: Saving Praise Houses Before Their African Lineage Is Forgotten | by Patricia Leigh Brown
LA Times: The 27 best movie theaters in L.A. | by CARLOS AGUILAR, MATT BRENNAN, TRACY BROWN, JUSTIN CHANG, MARY MCNAMARA, MARK OLSEN, MICHAEL ORDOÑA, JOSHUA ROTHKOPF, JOSH ROTTENBERG, KATIE WALSH, GLENN WHIPP, JEN YAMATO, AMY NICHOLSON
El País: Thanksgiving and Native Americans: a complicated history | by Alonso Martínez
The Guardian: Spurs’ Gregg Popovich takes mic to chastise fans for booing Kawhi Leonard
LA Times: How Asian-language tattoos have helped me feel at home in my own skin | by Frank Shyong
The Guardian: Political and documentary photography posters from the 1970s | by Sarah Gilbert
Other Stuff
Committee to Protect Journalist: Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
Civil Eats: The Long Reach of the Walmart-Walton Empire
NY Times: The Secret to Unlocking One of the Universe’s Greatest Mysteries | by Carlo Rovelli
The Guardian: Billionaires are lining up to fund Donald Trump’s anti-democratic agenda | by Robert Reich
Dissent: Ending the Coalfield-to-Prison Pipeline | by Billy Fleming and AL McCullough
Labor
Committee to Protect Journalist: Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
NY Times: California workers died of silicosis despite years of warnings | by Emily Alpert Reyes, Cindy Carcamo
NPR: Glitches are delaying the rescue of 40 workers trapped in India tunnel collapse
The Nation: The Long, Wild, Bloody History of the Hollywood Strike | by Chris Randle
LA Times: California prisoners could get higher wages under new plan — but still less than $1 an hour
Courthouse News Service: Convicted pimp ordered to repay former prostitute her earnings | by Edvard Petterson
Stansbury Forum: Harry Bridges and the ILWU – Then and Now | by Peter Olney
Headbanging Headlines:
The Guardian: Twelve billionaires’ climate emissions outpollute 2.1m homes, analysis finds
The Guardian: ‘I cannot stress too much about it’: Monaco yacht buyers shrug off climate concerns
LA Times: California prisoners could get higher wages under new plan — but still less than $1 an hour
Podcast
Minneapolis Institute of Art: In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now, Always Present
NY Times: The Wisdom of Living in the Present, According to My 107-Year-Old Best Friend | a short film by Raquel Sancinetti
BBC Sounds: Taking Issue with Shakespeare
Portside: Doctor My Eyes | Jackson Brown - A stunning rendition of the classic Doctor My Eyes brings together two musicians from the 1972 original with 11 amazing musicians from around the globe
Books
Aperture: 31 Photobooks for Everyone on Your Holiday Gift List
AI
16th near Owens. Image on the fence on the building site for coming UC medical building. San Francisco, CA Photos Robert Gumpert 21 November 2023
Reuters: Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say | by Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin and Krystal Hu
NY Times: The Unsettling Lesson of the OpenAI Mess | by Ezra Klein
The Guardian: OpenAI ‘was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff’ | by Dan Milmo
El País: OpenAI researchers warned of breakthrough that threatens humanity before Altman’s dismissal | by Miguel Jimémez
Washington Post: OpenAI and X: Promises of populist technology, shaped by a single man | by Drew Harwell
Wired: Sam Altman’s Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse | by Peter Guest, Morgan Meaker
404 Media: OpenAI Announces Sam Altman Is Returning as CEO With a 'New Board’ | by Jason Koehler
NY Times: A.I. Belongs to the Capitalists Now | by Kevin Roose
Blind: Over 100 Photographers Unite Against AI at World Press Photo | by Michaël Naulin
Social Issues
“hello BABY! it's a BOY". After the storefront party, 20th Street, between Missouri and Conn. San Francisco, CA. 23 November 2023
SF Chronicle: The not-so-secret history of trans people in California | by Robin Buller
NY Times: Opinion - Addiction Ravaged My Family and Tribe. I’m Fighting to Get Them Back
The Guardian: ‘We’re going to see people dying on the streets’: homeless refugee crisis grips Liverpool | by Sammy Gecsoyler
TPM: Appeals Court Hobbles The Voting Rights Act In New Decision | by Kate Riga
Middle East Eye: Why Palestinian journalists aren't valued by their western colleagues | by Azad Essa
Rolling Stone: I’m Serving Life in Prison. It’s a Slow-Motion Death Sentence | by Tariq Maqbool
Division Street
Sidewalk cooking - meatballs with cheese for 8 - at an encampment on 13th Street, at Folsom. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1 March 2022
The Guardian: ‘I was like 500th on the list’: life inside Britain’s affordable housing crisis | by Jessica Murray
NY Times: Here’s How Houston Is Fighting Homelessness — and Winning | by Nicholas Kristof
LA Times: Cal Poly Humboldt students who live in vehicles are ordered off campus | by Debbie Truing; photos Wally Skalij
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7 Days - 13 November - 19 November 2023
Man shot dead in a drive by shooting at Turk and Jones in the Tenderloin. In 1994 there werr 136 murders in San Francisco.. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1994.
Photography
Washington Post: The AR-15’s destructive force: A rare look at the weapon’s impact | Silvia Foster-Frau, N. Kirkpatrick and Arelis R. Hernández
Washington Post: The Post publishes photos from mass shootings and draws mixed reaction | by Paul Farhi
Poynter.: Opinion | How The Washington Post decided to show extremely graphic images of mass shootings | by Tom Jones
UNP: Photography as Witness, but should we look? | by Grant Scott
Lenscratch: Michael Kenna: Collecting Light, Photographs 1973-2023 | by Ann Jastrab
Blind: Archive of Time - a visual archive of personal objects that belonged to Philippe Halsman | by Henry Leutwyler
Rijasolo: Photographer based in Madagascar
i-D: Toronto-based photographer Saem captures his online community offline in ‘Age, Sex, Location’ | by Sara Quattrocchi Febles
Blind: Mario Macilau: the ghosts of Africa | by Iris Mandret
i-D: Stefan Ruiz is still reimagining the traditional portrait | by Ryan White
BJP: Portrait of Britain returns with a shortlist of 200 photographs that celebrate the country’s unique heritage and diversity
NOMA: Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything | and her website
Creative Boom: Tim George's incredible photos capture the rapidly vanishing world of pubs in the East End | by Dom Carter
PhMuseum: This Golden Mile | by Ravi Pujara
Dazed: Rediscovering the work of forgotten documentary photographer Tish Murtha | by Zoe Whitfield
The New Yorker - Photo Booth: The Freedom to See Rome Anew | Photographs by Perry Hall - Text Paul Elie
Lenscratch: Diversify Photo: Building Community | by Ashima Yadava
Field of View: Embedding with the Enemy - The world should see the atrocities committed by Hamas, not punish the photojournalists who document them. | by Patrick Witty
Huck: Documenting the Lives of Young American Travellers | Photography by Michael Joseph - text by Millen Brown-Ewens
The Dial: Those Who Have Done Nothing - El Salvador’s “regime of deception.” | words by John Gilbert - photos Miguel Tovar
NY Times: What One Photo Shows About a Gaza Hospital in Chaos
Blind: Roger Ballen’s Bizarre World
AnOther: Gail Thacker’s Haunting Polaroids of New York’s Downtown Theatre Scene | by Zoe Whitfield
The Guardian: Suitcase Joe’s photos of - Life on the streets of Los Angeles | by Sarah Gilbert
The Guardian: Civil rights, motorcycle clubs and New Mexico landscapes: 60 years of Danny Lyon’s photography | by Matt Fidler
Culture, Art and Design
Possibly a Century Plant Agave americana on Pennsylvania Avenue between 18th and 17th streets. Photo: Robert Gumpert 14 November 2023
i-D: Photographing 80s sound system culture in Jamaica & the UK | by Miss Rosen
Print: Poor Man’s Feast: The Things We Cling To | by Elissa Altman
Orion: Eating from the Mountains - A complicated relationship with hunting | by Phoebe McIlwain Bright
Metropolis: What is the Role of Sustainability in Public Sector Design? | by James McCown
Aeon: The patterns of reality - Some have thought that logic will one day be completed and all its problems solved. Now we know it is an endless task | by Timothy Williamson - edited by Nigel Warburton
Designboom: The Biggest Piece of Temporary Land Art in Arizona
Dezeen: Neom unveils pair of jagged skyscrapers for luxury resort on Gulf of Aqaba | by Cajsa Carlson
Dezeen: Yasmeen Lari on track to build a million flood-resilient Pakistan homes by 2024 | by Amy Frearson
Hammer & Hope: Come In - A call and response between the artist Carrie Mae Weems and the poet Ashley M. Jones
Docspopuli: Press power of the Long 1960s: Liberation through duplication | by Lincoln Cushing
Other Stuff
Hammer & Hope: Michelle Alexander on Palestine
The Baffler: Bringing up the Bodies - The forensic anthropologists who redress migrant death in Texas | by Caroline Trace
Nautilus: More than 90 percent of coastal wetlands have been altered or destroyed. What’s next? | by Katherine Gammon
The New Yorker: The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers | by Isaac Chotiner
Orion: The Edge of the Scared | by Jake Skeets
McSweeney’s: Twelve Things Your College Freshman Son Will Never Say During His Weekly Call Home | by Lili Wright
London Review of Books: On Non-Violent Resistance | by Manal A. Jamal
Labor
Washington Post: Mike McDaniel needs a reboot - Adventures in crashing and recovering with the NFL’s most dynamic coach. | by Kent Babb
Portside: Oklahoma Senator Driven to Violent Frenzy by Teamsters President | by Jarod Facundo/American Prospect
Poynter.: US lost more than two local newspapers a week this year, new Medill report finds | by Angela Fu
NY Times: Sex Workers Have Been Shunned by Banks, Even When Their Work Is Legal | by Tara Siegel Bernard
The Forward: Q&A with photographer Lynsey Addario about covering war | by Beth Harpaz
Headbanging Headlines:
PetaPixel: Israel Threatens to ‘Eliminate’ Photojournalists Who Documented October 7 Attack | by Matt Growcoot
NY Times: Xi Tells Biden ‘Planet Earth Is Big Enough’ for Both the U.S. and China
The Guardian: The Crown season 6 review – so bad it’s basically an out-of-body experience
Wired: The QAnon Shaman Isn’t Even the Most Extreme Candidate in His Race for Congress
The Guardian: Gun Owners of America, formed in belief NRA was ‘too liberal’
Podcast
A resident with TB and possibly AIDS in a ward at Mother Teresa Home in Port au Prince, Haiti. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1990
Aljazeera: Can foreign intervention save Haiti from gang violence? | by Harold Isaac
Youtube: John Sevigny (photographer) - Northern Triangle (2020) | by Roberto Cuxil
Ear Hustle: Episode 98: That World
Books
PhotoBook Journal: Regina Anzenberger – Roots & Waltz | review by Douglas Stockdale
AnOther: Manju Journal’s New Book Spotlights Ghana’s Booming Art Scene | by Sagal Mohammed
Magnum: Next: The Story of Josef Koudelka
Social Issues
Mariposa bridge over the Caltrain commuter tracks on the edge of Dogpatch and a block from UCSF Women and Children's Hospital. With the closing of safe injections sites and decreased teams doing needle collection, there are more needles. San Francisco, California Photo: Robert Gumpert 14 November 2023
San Francisco Public Press: City Officials Lack Urgency to Prevent Overdose Deaths, Say Safe Consumption Proponents | by Sylvie Sturm
48 Hills: The new War on Drugs isn’t working any better than the old one did …. - But Breed and Jenkins are pushing to make it worse. We have seen this before and it ended very badly.
KRON4: SF supes approve privately funded safe injection sites | Alex Baker, Dan Kerman
SF Chronicle: Drug overdose death rates for every US county
Civil Easts: Food Insecure Veterans Are Less Likely to Seek Help | by Anne Marshall-Chambers, The White Horse
Washington Post: The AR-15’s destructive force: A rare look at the weapon’s impact | ilvia Foster-Frau, N. Kirkpatrick and Arelis R. Hernández
Division Street
The San Francisco Standard: San Francisco Cleaned Up for APEC: See Before and After Photos
Hammer & Hope: Could We End Evictions? - A story on the revolutionary potential of direct action. | by KC Tenants
LA Times: AIDS Healthcare Foundation low-income tenants live in squalor, face eviction | by Liam Dillon, Doug Smith, Benjamin Oreskes, Photos Francine Orr, Graphics Aida Ylanan
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7 Days: 06 November - 12 November 2023
Soccer practice at a Public playing field in Golden Gate Park. San Francisco, CA. Photo: Robert Gumpert 10 November 2023
Shelter "tent" on the corner of Division Street and Potrero Avenue. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 06 November 2023
Photography
Blind: Miyako Ishiuchi Reveals the Scars of Humanity | by Marigold Warner
Museum der Moderne: The theatre photography of Ruth Walz
Vulture: Will Vogt Sees Rich People | by Christopher Bonanos
The Guardian: First to 21st: a woman and her son through the years | by Zoe Norfolk
Washington Post: Stories from the ‘dark underbelly’ of Australia’s long-term refugee prisons | photos: Mridula Amin; text by Rachel Pannett
Nonstndrd Creative: Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin Recent Photography 11/05/23
ProPublica: Here’s What Can Happen When Kids Age Out of Foster Care | by Kitra Cahana, special to ProPublica, and Ed Williams, Searchlight New Mexico, photography by Kitra Cahana, special to ProPublica
The Guardian: The world turned on its head: Taylor Wessing portrait prize winners | by Mee-Lai Stone
Huck: Watch an Exclusive Trailer for Upcoming Documentary Tish | by Isaac Muk; video by Modern Films
Huck: How Lee Miller Revolutionized the Role of Women in Photography | by Miss Rosen; Photos: Lee Miller
PhMuseum: A Guide to November 2023 Photography Festivals
Wallpaper: RIBA Photo Festival 2023 explores photography and the built environment | by Ellie Stathaki
Flashbak: Portraits Of US Army Truckers Arming The Soviets – 1943 - When the Allies seized Iran, they opened a corridor to supply weapons and more to the Soviet frontlines
The Picture Show - NPR: 8 portraits that capture the working class of Monterrey, Mexico, through its cantinas | by Zayrha Rodriguez
Daido Moriyama photo foundation: Gallery
The Guardian: Head On portrait award 2023 winners and finalists
Culture, Art and Design
Halloween toy abandoned on an 18th Street sidewalk in the lower Mission. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 11 November 2023
The Guardian: ‘What if women ruled the world?’ Judy Chicago’s latest show feels very timely | by Katy Hessel
Dezeen: Thomas Heatherwick selects 10 "humanised" buildings for Dezeen | by Tom Ravenscroft
Print: What SNL’s Bad Bunny Episode Can Teach Us About Cultural Relevance | by Ricardo Saca
Alta: San Francisco’s 24-Hour Diner Stops the Cosmic Clock | by Chris Colin
Museums Blog: ‘Return to Mingulay’: A Curator’s Perspective
PetaPixel: Hungary Fires Museum Director Over Photo Exhibit | by Matt Growcoot
Print: The Semiotics of a Movement: Picturing Life and Death | by Divya Mehra
El País: ‘I can’t wait to have you’: A historian discovers one hundred love letters sent to 18th-century French sailors | by Enrique Alpañés
Its Nice That: Unearthing the pioneering print designs of the all-women Folly Cove Collective | by Jenny Brewer
PetaPixel: Humane’s Wearable $699 AI Pin Has a Camera But No Screen | by Matt Growcott
Print: Tilting at Windmills: An Emerging Christian White Nationalist Symbol | by Olivia Trabysh
Other Stuff
Merry Go-Round, Golden Gate Park. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 10 November 2023.
Washington Post: Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term | by Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey and Devlin Barrett
Washington Post: Trump says on Univision he could weaponize FBI, DOJ against his enemies | by Maegan Vazquez
SF Chronicle: He was a small-town newspaper editor who took on Goliath and won | by Carl Nolte
Flashback: The CIA Rectal Tool Kit for Cold War Spies - And Former CIA Operative Explains How Spies Use Disguises | WIRED
Washington Post: Inside an OnlyFans empire: Sex, influence and the new American Dream | by Drew Harwell
Washington Post: Oldest black hole found, and it may solve a cosmic mystery | by Joel Achenbach
The New Yorker: Reinventing the Dinosaur | by Rivka Galchen
International
The Guardian: Ireland’s criticism of Israel has made it an outlier in the EU. What lies behind it? | by Una Mullally
El País: After the Hamas war, what then?: The fate of Gaza sparks global concern | by Antonio Pita
Le Monde: Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin and the future of Israel | by Jean-Pierre Filiu
The Express Tribune: Deportation pushing Pak-Afghan ties to the edge | by Kamran Yousaf
The Delacorte Review: In Limbo in Tbilisi | by Masha Udensiva-Brenner
Labor
The Guardian: One dead and four missing after British cargo ship sinks in North Sea | by Caroline Davies
LA Times: Chinese squid-fishing crews seek to escape beatings and more | reported and written by Ian Urbina, Joe Galvin, Maya Martin, Susan Ryan, Daniel Murphy and Austin Brush, with support from the Pulitzer Center. Photo/video: Ed Ou
Poynter: Opinion | We’re not ready for a major shift in visual journalism | by Tony Elkins
Committee to Protect Journalists: Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
NY Times: Workers Making Clothes for Top Brands Reject a Proposal: $113 a Month | by Said Hasnat
Podcast
BBC Hard Talk: Carlo Rovelli: Life, the universe and white holes
A Small Voice: #217 Ben Smith talks with Max Pam
BBC Desert Island Discs: Henry Marsh interviewed by Kristy Young
Aeon Videos: Why cleaning up crime scenes requires a rare mix of grit and empathy
Books
Home security, surveillance on San Bruno Ave. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 11 November 2023
Washington Post: Sandra Newman had a ‘bonkers’ idea for how to end her version of ‘1984’ | by Sophia Nguyen
PhotoBook Journal: Rita Nannini – First Stop Last Stop | reviewed by Paul Anderson
El País: Benjamin: Beautiful, rebellious and radical - A new photo book explores the American underground musician and poet’s world through the lens of Michael Ackerman | by Gloria Crespo MacLennan
Aperture: Announcing the Winners of the 2023 PhotoBook Awards
Social Issues
Notice at a food bank and family resource center in the Lower Mission. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 11 November 2023
Searchlight New Mexico: Two paths after foster care - Two teens aged out of New Mexico’s child welfare system last year. What made their lives so different?
| by Kitra Cahana, special to ProPublica, and Ed Williams, Searchlight New Mexico
Knowable Magazine: What can we do about ultraprocessed foods? | by Alice Callahan
El País: As billions roll in to fight the US opioid epidemic, one county shows how recovery can work | by AP
NY Times: Behind the Gates of a Private World for Only the Wealthiest New Yorkers | by Eliza Shapiro
LA Times: Mexico doctors fill holes in California farmworker healthcare | by Melissa Gomez; Photos: Dania Maxwell
Wired: How Citizen Surveillance Ate San Francisco | by Lauren Smiley
JSTOR Daily: Slavery and the Modern-Day Prison Plantation - “Except as punishment for a crime,” reads the constitutional exception to abolition. In prison plantations across the United States, slavery thrives. | by Ryan Moser
LA Times: Unsealed surveillance videos show violence against inmates inside L.A. County jails | by Keri Blakinger, Maria L. La Ganga
Division Street
SF Chronicle: ‘They just said we had to go’: S.F. clears homeless hot spots ahead of APEC 9 November 2023
Simon Holland, 35. 8 years homeless
San Bruno Avenue and Alameda Street, San Francisco.
Photo: Robert Gumpert 06 November 2023
What Does Home Mean To You? I hear it bounced around that home means where I lay my head at is my home. As great as that sounds I don’t know if I’m totally in agreement with it, although were ever I sleep at, that’s my home for the night. But really home is more a kind of community, it’s your family. It’s where you come to gather at night, hang together. I don’t have any of my family or friends here tonight, but usually they would be here and then it would feel like home. Right now if feels a little bit more like camping.
Is the City moving you around? Incessantly so. It’s gotten to the point I can never be setup for more than two or three days, anywhere, at any given time, or place. If I have a tidy camp, or a messy camp, or I’m the tiniest profile alone in a sleeping bag, I’m getting rolled up and offered the same exact one bed that’s open. They don’t have any other solutions. I’m working with a caseworker at the GA and CAAP office and they’re even frustrated by the lack of direction there. It’s so odd.
The City is supposed to give 72 hour notice of sweeps, is that your experience? No, no. Never. Not at all.
What does a tent mean to you? A tent is really everything. And it can be so flippant that it can go in an instant. I can get up and go to the bathroom, be gone for seven minutes, and have my entire campsite - tent, home, cleaned and cleared out - in just moments. So, you always got to be living with your guard up, your one eye open. But the tent really is everything, whether it’s built of an actual tent, or something more ramshackle put together with a tarp, cones, blankets, whatever. As long as you have some kind of blocker or barrier, some kind of privacy and protection, that’s everything out here. It’s so much better than laying on the street, or just in a sleeping bag, with no protection or shelter because you can be taken advantage of easier that way.
What is your most meaningful possession? At times it’s usually my cell phone although there are no possession that I’m ever able to keep, other than maybe my shoes, for more than a month at a time. And even my shoes maybe two or three months is the max. I mean I can’t keep anything. I love it when I have an ID on me but I can’t keep that. So I guess it would be a cell phone which I don’t even have one on me at this moment, but when I do that is my most meaningful possession.
Michael Benziger, 40. Two and half years homeless
San Bruno Avenue and Alameda Street. SF, California
Photo: Robert Gumpert, 07 November 2023
What does home mean to you? That’s a tough question. Home, I guess, is where you hang your hat, or you feel comfortable, where your loved ones are, where your stuff is. It’s just a place you can feel comfortable going back to, feel safe, and loved.
Has your idea of home changed in your time on the street? My perspective on a lot of things has changed. I don’t need a lot anymore. I came from a wealthy family and now I have an appreciation and a gratitude just for a tent, or the small things. So my perspective has changed, just having anything is a blessing in this world right now.
What does a tent mean to you? It means everything right now! Being on the street without something like a tent is really hard. It makes life impossible. You get stolen from. It puts you at risk, your possessions at risk. It’s uncomfortable, it’s scary. So something as small as a tent means the world to me.
What is your most important possession? Hmm, I was going to say like safety, I guess. I don’t know. Being on the street the last two years I’ve learned not to take much stock in possessions because they get taken, they get stolen, they get, you know, lost. So, material things, there not many material things I really care about much anymore. I don’t know, just myself, and say a tent and shoes. That’s a tough one. I don’t really have any material possessions anymore.
It’s nearly impossible to live in this environment on your own due to theft, and safety. It’s hard to live if you don’t have someone to watch your back. To stay with the tent and your stuff when you leave so it doesn’t get stolen. Or someone just to help you live. Help you make money, help you eat. You can’t do it on your own. You can, but it’s nearly impossible. So, having someone, I would call my “road dog”, that you live with that helps you through that stuff is like … actually that’s my greatest asset, having a friend you can trust and helps you get through things. That’s probably the greatest thing I have out here. I used to roll by myself for the first year and half because this is such a different environment from what I’m used to that I almost didn’t feel that I was part of it, or should be a part of it, so I rolled by myself a lot. But it was so hard, and so impossible. [Now] Me and him [Simon Holland], we get along well and it makes the world ten times easier.
Sweeps and the City It’s a double edged sword. I think San Francisco is amazing. They offer a lot of services, there are a lot of places that don’t offer nearly what they (the City) do. But recently they’ve been on a mission to - I don’t know what their deal is, clean things up or something - so lately we’ve had a lot of negative interactions with DPW and the police because they’re moving us around constantly. Everywhere we go it’s you got to move. Or you can’t be here. It’s like we don’t have a place in this world. Right now it feels like they want us to not exist.
I know they want us in a shelter but they come around and say there’s only one bed left. Ok, well there’s two of us. Are you going to leave one of us out here? Where’s the other one going to go, they won’t let us be anywhere.
I was told you get 72 hours notice to move but I’ve only gotten that once in countless times of being moved. I’ve lost everything multiple times. It was sort of my decision but you’re pressured into it. They’ll come in and wake you up at 6 in the morning and say you have a half hour to be out of here. Before I used to have carts full of stuff and it would be impossible to pack all that in half and hour, so I would get up and say I’m taking just my tent and bike and I’m out of here. I don’t have time to pack all that up. It’s gotten to the point that I just travel with a backpack and a bag. That’s where it’s gotten to because we’re moved so often that it’s not worth having anything.
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Huck: Why We’ll Risk Becoming Criminals To Give Out Tents To Homeless People | by Streets Kitchen, Photos Dan Burton
SF Chronicle: How S.F. is dealing with its homeless encampments ahead of APEC summit | by J.D. Morris
Truthout: Media Blame Homelessness on Substance Abuse. The Data Tell a Different Story. | by Margot Kushel, MD
SF Public Press: SF Lacks Urgency to Prevent Overdose Deaths, Advocates Say | by Sylvie Sturm
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29 October - 05 November 2023
Morning light on one 1 Stuart Lane condo (center), one of a number of condominiums in the downtown area of San Francisco with high price tags and few buyers. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 04 November 2023
Photography
Fraenkel Exhibitions: Hirshi Sugimoto Oct 26 - Dec 22, 2023
The Image Centre: Louie Palu: Cage Call
Blind: An Eyeful of Sport | by Iris Mandret
The Image Centre: Su Rynard: As Soon As Weather Will Permit | guest curator: Alexandra Gooding
Lens Culture: Arctic Dreams | Photographs by Mario Heller; Essay by Erik Vroons
Orion: The Pavement Surgeon - The anonymous, magical street art of EMEMEM
The Guardian: ‘Changing takes time’: how female photographers in Africa are redefining their lives | by Caroline Kimeu
The Guardian: Seymour Licht, What lurks beneath: demons and dead brides ride New York’s subway | by Mee-Lai Stone
The Guardian: Julie Glassberg - Dekotora: the decorated trucks of Japan | by Julie Glassberg
Aperture: How Can Photobooks Expand the Canon? | by Alistair O’Neill
Print: The Daily Heller: Gerard Malanga’s Iconic Photographs Thrill the Eye
The New Yorker: The Numbing Sameness of War Footage | by Jay Caspian Kang
Strangely Familiar: Photos by Peter Mitchell
The Image Centre: Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press | Curators: Paul Roth, Gaëlle Morel and Rachel Verbin
Huck: A Great Day in the Stoke at Huntington Beach is a celebration of Black surfing and a call to make surfing inclusive for all. | Text by Jon Coen; Photography by Earl Gibson III
Denver Art Museum: Personal Geographies - Trent Davis Bailey ǀ Brian Adams
Eyeshot: A Stellar Array of Artistry in Street and Documentary Photography
Field of View: Patrick Witty - War Is The Most Violent Color - “I became a body without a soul."
Culture, Art and Design
Mural on a door. Valencia between 17th and 16th in the Mission. San Francisco. Photo: Robert Gumpert 5 March 2023
Checkout counter display at a small grocery store in the Mission. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 3 November 2023
El País: The wormhole that changed a novel | by Montero Glez
The Appalachian Voice: Castle in the Sun - Just For Kids Advocacy Center headquarters is now solar-powered | by Dan Radmacher
Appalshop: “A Dying Tradition” - accounts of the funeral practices and customs of dealing with death in the mountains | Produced by Emmitt Hamilton, Shannon Collins & Sharon Saylor
The Guardian: ‘This war is prophetically significant’: why US evangelical Christians support Israel | by Adam Gabbatt
Aesthetica: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera | by Niamh Coghlan
The Bitter Southerner: The Sounds of Science - the Moog synthesizer | by Deanna Cruz - Photos by Growl
Metropolis: Over the last few years, the Santa Monica, California, firm has evolved a new system of massing that opens homes up to space, light, and community. | by Sam Lubell
Segregation by Design: Los Angeles: Sugar Hill
LA Curbed: The Thrill of Sugar Hill | by Hadley Meares, photos Liz Kuala
AnOther: Lessons in Creativity: Rick Rubin & Jefferson Hack in Conversation
Psyche: Why spoken word poetry is so much more than a poetry reading | by Erica Fletcher; edited by: Christian Jarrett
Other Stuff
El País: Data | The female vote stems the tide of the far right in Europe and Latin America | by Borja Andrino and Monstse Hidalgo Pérez
Dissent: The Case for a Ceasefire | by Y. L. Al-Sheikh and Abe Silberstein
Dissent: The Habitation Economy | by Fred Block
BBC: Bowen: Five new realities after four weeks of Israel-Gaza war | by Jeremy Bowen
BBC: Israel Gaza: Father loses 11 family members in one blast | by Feral Keane
Washington Post: This is how AI image generators see the world - a world where our worst stereotypes are realized | by Nitasha Tiku, Kevin Schaul and Szu Yu Chen
Washington Post: How many arms do starfish have? If you said ‘five,’ you’re wrong. | by Dino Grandoni
The Conversation: The enduring appeal of Friends, and why so many of us feel we’ve lost a personal friend in Matthew Perry | by Adam Gerace
Nautilus: Have We Gotten Dark Matter All Wrong? Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus. | by Paul M. Sutter
NY Times: Videos and photos of the conflict are competing with misappropriated depictions of unrelated tragedies, a cycle that experts say diminishes the experiences of victims past and present. | by Angelo Fichera
Washington Post: AI chatbots can fall for prompt injection attacks, leaving you vulnerable | by Tatum Hunter
Labor
Auto assembly worker, and UAW member, at what was then the NUMI assembly plant for a joint venture between GM and Toyota. When the plant closed the facility was bought by Tesla and revamped to build the electronic auto. Fremont, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2003
The New Yorker: Will the U.A.W Strike Turn the Rust Belt Green? | by Dan Kaufman
Stansbury Forum: “Get Up, Stand Up – Stand up for your right”* | by Peter Olney and Rand Wilson
ProPublica: Why OSHA Doesn’t Investigate All Dairy Farm Deaths | by Maryam Jameel and Melissa Sanchez, and Co-published with USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
LA Times: South Korea migrant workers face uncertain labor conditions | by Max Kim; Photos Marcus Yam
NY Times: Stabbed. Kicked. Spit On. Violence in American Hospitals Is Out of Control | video by Roland Kielman and Ryan Mercer. Text by Helen Ouyang
Headbanging Headlines:
NY Times: 'I don't recall this. I pour concrete. I operate properties.” Eric Trump on witness stand
Podcast
Manhattan garment shop worker, member of the ACTWU. New York City. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1983
BBC Outlook: Finding a rare portrait, and the boy hidden in its paint
BBC Sounds: The Cows Are Mad: Science has still failed to definitively answer two major questions about mad cow disease - where did it come from and how did humans get it?
LRB Podcast: What is British humour anyway? | by Jonathan Coe and Malin Hay
Haptic & Hue: Episode #44 The Language of Thread - Why Sewing Matters and How We Were Taught | by Jo Andrews
Books
The Guardian: White Holes: Inside the Horizon review – Carlo Rovelli turns time on its head | by Kevin Fong
Social Issues
A “safety cell” for those that are "a danger to themselves or others". San Francisco County Jail 3 as to was known in 1996 on the 6th floor of the Hall of Justice. It is now closed. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1996
LA Times: L.A. County tries to hire mental health workers, fast | by Jackyn Cosgrive
NY Times: Stabbed. Kicked. Spit On. Violence in American Hospitals Is Out of Control. | Video by Roland Kielman and Ryan MercerText by Helen Ouyang
The Guardian: A prison guard confessed to sexual misconduct. He got a year of paid time off and no charges | by Sam Levin
Mother Jones: How the Gun Industry Targets Kids Using TikTok, Instagram, and Video Games | by Mark Follman
De Los - LA Times: Texas state rep says he has ‘no regrets’ about viral outburst over anti-immigrant bill | by Alejandra Molina
Mission Local: SF to reopen shuttered jail as inmate population rises | by Eleni Balakrishnan
Orion: The Broken Clock - Going from changing with the seasons to changing the seasons themselves | by David Gessner
The Marshall Project: In Harm’s Way - How decades-old decisions to build two California prisons in a dry lakebed and a chaotic climate left 8,000 incarcerated people at risk. | by Susie Cagle; Additional reporting by GEOFF HING - Development by KATIE PARK
NY Times: The Latest Target for California Conservatives? Local School Boards | by Jill Cowan
Cal Matters: From Texas’ border to California: A tale of two cities’ response to migrants arriving unexpectedly | by Justo Robles and Alejandra Reyes-Velarde
Washington Post: Local journalists arrested in Atmore, Alabama, for grand jury story | by Paul Farhi
Division Street
There is never much privacy for rough sleepers. Bush and Market streets. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 27 October 2015 from the book “Division Street - Dark was the night, cold was the ground*, Homelessness and Community in San Francisco”
The Guardian: From right to buy to housing crisis: how home ownership killed Britain’s property dream | by Rowan Moore
The Guardian: Afghans who fled Taliban to UK ‘set to be made homeless at Christmas’ | by Mark Townsend
VPM: The last day at Charlottesville's Market Street Park encampment | by Meghin Moore
Jacobin: We Should Look to Vienna for Answers to Our Housing Crisis | by Fran Quigley
Metropolis: This San Francisco Affordable Housing Development Is on a Mission | by Lydia Lee
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*‘Dark was the night, cold was the ground’: From the song of the same name written and performed by bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, recorded in 1927.
23 October - 29 October 2023
Halloween lawn display. Vicente and 16th, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 24 October 2023
Photography
The Guardian: ‘Women need to know it is no longer a crime’: Mexico’s abortion companions
Blind: The Many Lives of Jill Freedman | by Jonas Cuénin
Luca Locatelli: The Circle; and Future Studies 2012-2020 - series
Document: Marcus Maddox captures the everyday romance of the music scene | by Maraya Fisher
The Guardian: Hard-hitting images from the winners of the Ian Parry photojournalism | by Matt Fidler
Then There Was Us: London's David Hill Gallery presents 'Meeting at the Volta', a celebration of two remarkable African photographers, Sanlé Sory (b. 1943, Burkina Faso) and Kyle Weeks (b. 1992, Namibia) | by Josh Bright
Lenscratch: European Street Photography Wee: Kristin Van Den Eede: A Limit to the Dark | by Michael Honegger
Skirball Cultural Center (LA): This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement
BJP: Co-curator Azu Nwagbogu explains how this year’s festival will resurface hidden histories – and why, for the first time, it’s expanded into Benin | by Diane Smyth
1000 Words: Daido Moriyama A Retrospective Exhibition | review by Mark Durden
Field of View: The End, and Beginning, of Life in Gaza - “One of the hardest days of my life, sadness and joy at the same time.” | by Patrick Witty
Creative Boom: Seymour Licht's photos of subway Halloween costumes are a time capsule of terror | by Dom Carter
The New Yorker: A Friendship in Photography - Brian Graham and Robert Frank | by Nicholas Dawidoff
Blind: “All these people paid the ultimate price, they did it for us”, Don McCullin | by Michaël Naulin
Blind: Belgian-Congolese photographer Leonard Pongo - Congo Waking Dream
Lens Culture: Sanctuary and Abjuration: Sentinels of the Ghostwood | Photographs by Anne Eder - Exhibition review by Liz Sales
BJP: Photojournalist Mariusz Smiejek has spent much of his life attempting to understand conflict in the North of Ireland | by Philippa KellySWI: How one woman led the charge in celebrating photography in Switzerland | Text by Monica Boirar; photos edited by Thomas Kern
Culture, Art and Design
Design business. De Haro between Berry and Division, San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 23 October 2023
bellingcat: Separating Fact from Fiction on Social Media in Times of Conflict | by Charlotte Maher
The Real News Network: The Atlantic Magazine, covering Palestine without Palestinians | by Adam Johnson
The Baffler: Doomsday Diaries - October 7–17, 2023 | by Sarah Aziza
McSweeney’s: Sure, Trump is an authoritarian grifter, but at least he’s three years younger than Biden | by Noah Seligman
designboom: Nadine Abdul Ghaffar on the return of 'forever is now' art show at the pyramids of Giza | by Lea Zeitoun
Print: Basics Before Breakthroughs | by Rob Schwartz
BBC: Ancient rock carvings revealed by receding Amazon waters amid drought | by Constance Malleret
Formally Known As The Bollocks: John Peel Sessions
Aeon (video): A unique project frames college football as an intricately choreographed mass ritual | Director: Ian Forster
High Country News: A new film asks: how do you make art in a city you can’t afford? | review by Natalia Mesa
Thrillist: Cruising Low ‘n Slow with the Women Shaping New Mexico’s Lowrider Scene | by Vanita Salisbury
El País: ‘The artist the world needs today’: The largest Rothko exhibition ever arrives in Paris | by Álex Vicente
AnOther: The Enduring Relevance of Rothko’s Magnificent Abstract Expressionism | by Daisy Woodward
Artsy: Mark Rothko Gets a Radical Rethink at the Foundation Louis Vuitton | by Julie Baumgardner
The Guardian: Cold war satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts | by Caroline Davies
Print: The Daily Heller: The Abandoned American Shopping Cart
Hyperallergic: A Deep Dive Into the Underground World of Zines | by Maya Pontone
Hyperallergic: New York Jewish Book Festival Returns for Second Run | by Elaine Velie
Other Stuff
Amusement park in Old Orchard Beach, Maine during Memorial Day weekend. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1986.
The Dial: The Gun Show Cowboy Crackdown - Mexico is suing U.S. gun manufacturers for fueling violence in its territory. | by Chantal Flores
Jacobin: The Failures of Neoliberal Governance Paved the Way for Uber’s Conquest of the City | by Katie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh, Declan Cullen
Washington Post: From doom to boom: AI is slowly re-energizing San Francisco | by Danielle Abril
Aeon: Panspermia - It’s possible that frozen worlds with subterranean oceans are incubators of organic life. But then how did life get here? | by Balazs Bradak, edited by Pam Weintraub
Tech Policy Press: What is Media Diversity and Do Recommender Systems Have It? | by Priyanjana Bengani, Jonathan Stray, and Luke Thorburn
Courthouse News Service: Research indicates your favorite music can reduce sensations of physical pain | by Sam Ribakoff
404: From High Life Hackers to National Menace: The Rise and Fall of Digital Bandits ‘ACG' | by Joseph Cox
Dezeen: UN reports 40 per cent of Gaza's housing damaged during conflict | by Amy Peacock
Washington Post: Opinion | Race and colonialism are central to Israel-Palestinian conflict | by Karen Attiah
Labor
Maria. Mason Street near O'Farrell Street on the edge of the Union Square area. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 1996
The Guardian: Iceland’s first full-day women’s strike in 48 years aims to close pay gap | by Miranda Bryant
El País: Autoworkers strike at Stellantis plant shutting down big profit center, 41,000 workers now picketing
Beyond Caron: Picking at Fort Miley: SF Nurses Fight VA Scheduling Change Caused by Outsourcing & Cost-Cutting | by Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early
Portside: UAW President Shawn Fain: We’ve Reached a Tentative Deal With Ford After 41 Days on Strike | by Phoebe Wall Howard, Eric D. Lawrence, Jamie L. LaReau DETROIT FREE PRESS
Quartz: After UAW's tentative deal with Ford, all eyes are on General Motors and Stellantis - Ford has agreed to a roughly 25% pay increase over four years—will GM and Stellantis follow suit? | by Ananya Bhattacharya
AP: Auto workers and Stellantis each tentative contract deal that follow model set by Ford | by Tom Krisher
Headbanging Headlines:
Touch of Modern: Sex Toy Design: How Hard Can It Be?
LA Times: U-Haul with 2,000 pounds of marijuana in back crashes into Sierra Madre police station
El País: Investigation estimates that there are more than 440,000 living victims of sexual abuse that took place within the Spanish Catholic Church
Podcast
BBC The Conversation: Are dolls good for girls? Kim Chakanetsa speaks to a psychologist and a doll maker to discuss the impact of playing with toys on the brain
UN of Photography: Grant Scott talking with photographer Marc Wilson about the realities of creating Kick Starter campaigns to support and fund the publishing of personal photographic projects.
A Small Voice: Ben Smith talks with American photojournalist and human rights researcher, Corinne Dufka on her journey from social worker to photojournalist, baptism by fire in Bosnia, the epiphany that led her to walk away from photojournalism, curiosity, compassion, having an impact and why she doesn’t do ‘hopeless’.
Books
Print: 11 of the Most Dangerous Book Covers in America (!) | by Zachary Petit
PhMuseum: Photobook Review: Comings and Goings by Jim Goldberg | by Colin Pantall
Washington Post: 5 new mystery novels to read now | by Karen MacPherson
The Guardian: Sedition Hunters: how ordinary Americans helped track down the Capitol rioters | by Rich Tenorio
Social Issues
The Baffler: Doomsday Diaries - October 7–17, 2023 | by Sarah Aziza
NY Times: The Worst Scandal in American Higher Education Isn’t in the Ivy League | by David French
NY Times: A Project Supporting Migrants Was Cost Effective. Why Did It End? | by Megan Specia
Huck: The Battle to Safeguard Vital Forests on the Edge of the World | text Chris Hatherill; Photography by Jose Reyero, Marko Magister; Video by Jose Reyero; Illustrations by Lucy Han
Division Street
Sleeping rough in the shelter of a front end loader. Utah Street, just north of 17th. San Francisco, California Photo: Robert Gumpert 8 November 2019
SF Chronicle: SF’s homeless are 16 times more likely to die a sudden death | by Megan Fan Munce
Mountain State Spotlight: Parkersburg and Wheeling are trying to push homelessness out of the public eye. But for many, there’s nowhere to go | by Erin Beck
SF Public Press: After Massive Renovations, Code Violations Rise Steeply in Subsidized Housing | by Madison Alvarado
SF Public Press: Public Housing in Private Hands | by Madison Alvarado
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16 October - 22 October 2023
Napping on the Tube. London, England. Photo: Robert Gumpert 15 September 2023
Photography
The Guardian: Helsinki Photo Festival’s most popular projects
France24: Robert Doisneau, the wartime years: Paris show hails photographer’s ‘spirit of resistance’
Young Kim: She Traveled the World, Faced Every Danger and Hardship. Now, She is Home and at Peace.
Blind: The Invisible Man With a Camera in Hand - Ralph Ellison’s rarely-seen photographs offer a revelatory look into the mind of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century | by Miss Rosen
The Guardian: West Africa’s style icons … and the tiny studio that shot them - photos of Sanlé Sory
Field of View: The Elusive, Impossible, Iconic War Photo | by Patrick Witty
Blind: Shelby Lee Adams - The Forgotten People of Appalachia | by Robert E. Gerhardt
BJP: Behind the scenes of Moriyama’s London takeover | by Diane Smyth
The Eye of Photography: Centro Cultural de Cascais: Michael Grecco – Punk, Post Punk, New Wave: Onstage, Backstage, In Your Face
Blind: Théo Saffroy’s series “Les Reines du Ring” | by Iris Mandret
BJP: The Scottish photographer reflects on returning to a project she started in 1994 – photographing her sister and her children in impoverished Stirling
David Wright Photography: THE GOLDEN ARCHES McDONALD'S, USA
The Guardian: Polluted, violent and ablaze: the real Brazilian rainforest – in pictures | photos Tommaso Protti
The New Yorker: Tony Notarberardino - These People Used to Live Here? | by Naomi Fry
Stephen Daiter Gallery: NEWCOMERS / Related Work - Eva Konikoff and Sandra Weiner Document Early Life
Stephen Daiter Gallery: Wanderings: Forty Years of Photographs in the U.S. by Alex Webb
Hammer and Hope: “We don’t struggle for you, we struggle with you” - Socialist shack dwellers fight for land and housing in South Africa. | by Siyabonga Mbehebe, Waldemar Oliveira
NY Times: Elderly and Imprisoned: ‘I Don’t Count It as Living, Only Existing.’ | by Camilla Floyd, Photos: Joseph Rodriquez
Culture, Art and Design
A closed restaurant ongoing repurposing. Harrison at 18th Street. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 21 October 2023
Washington Post: Smithsonian releasing Robert ‘Mack’ McCormick’s blues collection | by Geoff Edgers
NY Times: Barnes & Noble Sets Itself Free | by Maureen O’Connor
The New Yorker: How Social Media Abdicated Responsibility for the News | by Kyle Chayka
Longreads: Fast Times on America’s Slowest Train | by Harrison Scott Key
Creative Boom: Raina Jia's colourful and quirky illustrations tell stories in unconventional ways | by Dom Carter
Designboom: MVRDV's pyramid of Tirana in pictures: inside Albania's newly-renovated brutalist landmark
Print: Is Meme-Ification of the News a Good or Bad Thing? | by Chloe Gordon
Print: The Daily Heller: Ib Antoni, the Danish Mad Man | by Steven Heller
Print: My Socks Have Stories to Tell | by Liz Gumbinner
Eye: Resistance is essential | by John L. Walters
Other Stuff
"Trust but verify" - building with sign promoting "Spread Love / Stop Hate" and CCTV and a burgler alarm. Folsom and 20th streets, San Francisco California, 21 October 2023
The Guardian: Drought turns Amazonian capital into climate dystopia - Forest fires leave Manaus with second worst air quality in the world, while low river levels cut off communities | by Jonathan Watts
The Guardian: Polluted, violent and ablaze: the real Brazilian rainforest – in pictures | photos Tommaso Protti
LA Times: Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate. Will anyone notice? | by David Lauter
NY Times: Some Israeli Journalists Express Fear About Conveying Dissenting Views
Psyche: When mindfulness meets capitalism, it loses its way | by Chris Wheatley, Edited: Sam Haselby
NY Times: OpenAI in Talks for Deal That Would Value Company at $80 Billion | by Cade Metz
NY Times: Ukraine, a Sniper Mission and the Myth of the ‘Good Kill’ | by Thomas Gibbons-Neff
NY Times: Silicon Valley Ditches News, Shaking an Unstable Industry | by Mike Isaac, Katie Robertson, and Nico Grant
Labor
Washington Post: Opinion What my grandmother taught me about the dignity of work | by Theodore R. Johnson
Quartz: Another group of Detroit workers is placing their bets on a strike - Casino workers at MGM Grand Detroit, MotorCity Casino, and Hollywood have walked out | by Ananya Bhattacharya
The Guardian: Train strikes in England could continue for six months after union vote - Backing of 90% of RMT members… | by Gwyn Topham
Washington Post: Ford factory is a cornerstone of Chicago’s South Side economy. UAW picketers worry what will happen if the plant doesn’t go electric. | by Jeanne Whalen
The Guardian: British Steel owner preparing to cut as many as 2,000 jobs, report says | by Sarah Butler
Podcast
The Rest is Politics: Palestine, Gaza, and Israel - an interview with Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK.
BBC In the Studio: Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf takes us behind the scenes of the making of Kandahar
Social Issues
Healthcare ad, bus Stop, Folsom near 18th. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 21 October 2023
The New Yorker: What Happened to San Francisco, Really? | by Nathan Heller
NY Times: Longer Commutes, Shorter Lives: The Costs of Not Investing in America | by David Leonhardt
JSTOR Daily: Urban Planning, Then and Now - Humans have been designing cities for millennia. California Forever is just the newest entry in a long list of planned communities around the world. | by Ashley Gardini
Longreads: Unknown Cost - Forty-three million Americans need substance addiction treatment, but only a tiny fraction receive it. We know why. | by Wilson M. Sims
Propublica: The GOP’s Secret to Protecting Gerrymandered Electoral Maps? Claim Privilege. | by Marilyn W. Thompson
404: ‘Verified’ OSINT Accounts Are Destroying the Israel-Palestine Information Ecosystem | by Emanuel Maiberg
Washington Post: Child labor violations soared in fiscal 2023 | by Lauren Kaori Gurley
Division Street
A makeshift dwelling. Folsom near 19th Street. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 21 October 2023
Washington Post: Is the ‘Sexy nomad calendar’ of homeless men exploitative or empowering? by Kyle Swenson
SF Public Press: SF ‘Failing’ on Housing as Overdose Solution, Health Expert Says | by Sylvie Sturm
Searchlight NM: Across New Mexico, low-income renters face leaks, heat, mold, roaches — and no recourse. | by Jeremiah O. Rhodes
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09 October - 15 October 2023
Whiz Burgers. 60 years at 18th and S. Van Ness. San Francisco, California. In 1977 Robert Hillsborough and a friend were attacked after buying burgers by a group of young anti-gay men. Hillsborough was stabbed 15 times and died. The murder highlighted the violence facing the LGBT community. Days later the city's Pride celebration drew a record 300,000 people who marched to the front steps of City Hall and laid flowers. Photo: Robert Gumpert 15 October 2023
Photography
Toby Binder: Youth of Belfast; Youth of the UK
Laura Morton: Social Stage; Debutante
Lukas Kreibig: The Last Wolf Children; Heart of a Seal
The Guardian: Siena photo awards 2023 – winning images | by Matt Fidler
The Guardian: Sizzling hunks, street smash-ups and kabuki rebels: the dazzling photography of Daidō Moriyama | by Charlotte Jansen
The Guardian: Daniel Meadows’ Magical history tour: all aboard the bus around 1970s Britain
Robert Koch Gallery: Matt Black - The Central Valley and Mexico until 21 October 2023
Blind: Raymond Depardon and David Burnett: Chile’s Hopes and Tears | by Michaël Naulin
Bastuaan Woudt: Website
Blind: In Vienna, the Renters’ Utopia | by Luca Locatelli et Francesca Mari
Print: James and Karla Murray Preserve Old New York Storefronts Through Their Photographs | by Charlotte Beach
Design Boom: Greg Girard - Captures the West Coast as a vast departure lounge in a nostalgic time capsule of travels from the 1970s
Huck: Photographer James Clifford Kent on how ordinary Cubans are struggling to cope under with economic crisis, US sanctions, shortages, blackouts, inflation and emigration.
AnOther: Deborah Turbeville’s Haunting Photo Collages of Women | by Lydia Figes
The New Yorker: “Squid Fleet” Takes You Into the Opaque World of Chinese Fishing | Film by Ed Ou and Will N. Miller; Text by Ian Urbina
Huck: Photograph That Fought for Major Social & Political Change - The world of Dorothea Lange | by Miss Rosen
Blind: Facing Paz Errázuriz - A tribute to a committed Chilean woman and her daily struggle to shed light on those society has left behind… | by Brigitte Ollier
LFI: Oskar Barnack Award 2023 Winners - Kuba Kaminski -Szeptunki; Gianfranco Tripodo - Ceuta
Lens Culture: 2023 LensCulture Emerging Talent Award Winners
Then There Was Us: Being a Documentary Photographer – Roger Hutchings
Spill: Mixed media project by Felipe Jacome
Eyeshot: Rollo Holleins - To Water
Culture, Art and Design
Students on a historical tour of Brick Lane. London, England. Photo: Robert Gumpert 18 September 2023
The Guardian: Mark Steel: ‘I have cancer and it feels like there’s a leopard in my house’
LA Times: How L.A.’s bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices | by Dorany Pineda, photos: Genaro Molina
JSTOR Daily: Fruit and Veg: The Sexual Metaphors of the Renaissance | by Noor Anand Chawla
Aeon: Settler Colonialism | by Lachlan McNamee, edited by Sam Haselby
The San Francisco Standard: San Francisco Tech Bros Host Testosterone-Testing Parties—Is It Junk Science? | by Liz Lindqwister
El País: Testosterone parties: the latest Silicon Valley fad | by Miquel Echarri
Aperture: How Ghana Became a Homeland for the African Diaspora | by Anakwa Dwamena
Print: Meet the Librarian Spreading Library Love One TikTok at a Time | by Charlotte Beach
Print: My Favorite Things: How We Learn Complex Skills | by Tom Guarriello
Bitter Southerner: Margo Price’s Infamous Fried Green Tomatoes | words & recipe by Margo Price
Washington Post: The most influential crowdsourcing project happened long before Wikipedia | by Michael Dirda
Other Stuff
LA Times: Researchers map ancient tribal villages of Los Angeles | by Louis Sahagún, Sean Greene
Scientific American: Ancient Footprints Affirm People Lived in the Americas More Than 20,000 Years Ago | by Tom Metcalfe
El País: NASA finds signs of the ‘building blocks of life’ in sample brought back from Bennu asteroid | by Javier Salas
Convergence: End Israeli Apartheid to Give Peace a Chance | by Max Elbaum
Dawn: UN experts say Israel’s strikes on Gaza amount to ‘collective punishment’ | via AFP and Reuters
Washington Post: Scientists share theory of deceptively bright Webb telescope images | by Erin Blakemore
Labor
UAW member at the engine casting plant. Windsor, Canada. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1983
LA Times: Walgreens pharmacy staffers walk out across U.S., citing unsafe working conditions | by Summer Lin
404: Video Reveals Crucial Details of LAPD Ignoring Robbery to Catch Togetic in Pokémon Go | by Jason Koebler
Portside: UAW Makes the Brave New Economy a Lot More Worker-Friendly | by Harold Meyerson
The New Yorker: “Squid Fleet” Takes You Into the Opaque World of Chinese Fishing | Film by Ed Ou and Will N. Miller; Text by Ian Urbina
NY Times: The Washington Post to Cut 240 jobs | by Katie Robertson
Labor Notes: Auto Workers Escalate: Surprise Strike at Massive Kentucky Ford Truck Plant | by Keith Brower Brown
Books
Lenscratech: Atomic Reactions - Crystal Bennes - Klara and the Bomb | by Barbara Ciurej
DesignBoom: Romain Veillon captures abandoned places reclaimed by nature in the absence of humanity | Christina Petridou I designboom
Aperture: Announcing the 2023 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
Social Issues
Warning sign on the freeway off ramp at Mariposa. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 15 October 2023
ProPublica: Six Right-Wing Activists Filed 89,000 Georgia Voter Roll Challenges | by Doug Bock Clark, photography by Cheney Orr for ProPublica
Washington Post: The troubling relationship between your job and your odds of drug overdose | by Andrew Van Dam
The New Yorker: The Next Targets fir the Group that Overturned Roe | by David D. Kirkpatrick
ProPublica: We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority | by Andy Kroll, Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, illustrations by Nate Sweitzer for ProPublica
The New Yorker: “Squid Fleet” Takes You Into the Opaque World of Chinese Fishing | Film by Ed Ou and Will N. Miller; Text by Ian Urbina
El País: Víctor Díaz Caro, the ex-guerrilla who tried to assassinate Pinochet: ‘The tortures I went through are just workplace accidents’ | by Diego Stacey
The Borgen Project: A look at Sanya: Biggest slum in Tokyo
Dissent: Toward a Humane Left - To hold everyone’s humanity—that is the task of the hour. | by Joshua Leifer
NY Times: The Massacre in Israel and the Need for a Decent Left | by Michelle Goldberg
Division Street
LA Times: Almost 70, unemployed, worried about his health and living in his car | by Steve Lopez
SF Public Press: SF Homeless Hotline Staff Couldn't Reach Most Seeking Shelter | by Madison Alvarado
From “Division Street”, the book:
Robert Milazzo, 63. “Home is wherever I am. I don’t feel homeless. I feel like I don’t have a box to live in right now but I’m not homeless. We’re all at home. People tend to forget that.”
“You know homeless is not all that bad because it gives you perspective on a lot of things you can’t get any other way, like the good guys aren’t always the ones with the keys.”
“Having to pee every fucking 20 minutes out here on the street when they can arrest you for doing so has probably aged me more than anything. For an older man living out here that’s … people just don’t consider things happen when you’re aging. I can’t climb up out of the tent anymore, I have to roll over and pee in a bottle. Before the nights over I’ve peed 14 times. It’s just crazy to spend so much of my thinking time about stupid shit like that.”
“The fact that I have been out here so fucking long at this age, and with a terminal decease (HIV positive), it’s shameful. I think it speaks volumes about everything in our country. But hell, even through a fucking pandemic I’m still sitting here, I guess I’m supposed to be here.”
“I’m not worried about the pandemic, I don’t know why. Maybe because I’ve had AIDS as long as I have. But you know I use drugs sometimes and I guess something about the choice of drugs I was using for so many years, may have been harming me but also may have been
benefitting me somehow. There’s a big school of thought I hear about all that. I know when I used to get the first sign of a cold, I’d do a hit of speed and it would knock it out. I’m not advocating, I’m just saying that has been my experience.”
Photo and text from the book, “Division Street”. Photos: Robert Gumpert. Texts by the unhoused and found materials. Published by Dewi Lewis
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02 October - 08 October 2023
OT L Geary Parkway. Geary at 12th. SF, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 03 October 2023
Photography
Phil Penman: Features & All the work not fit for instagram
Chicago Tribune: Chicago’s trailblazing Black photojournalists discuss their work | by Darcel Rockett
Blind: You’re Wrong about Robert Frank | by Bill Shapiro
Blind: On the Road - Robert Frank and Todd Webb | by Bill Shapiro
Columbia Missourian: Missouri Photo Workshop aims to 'show truth with a camera’ | by Bailey Stover
℅ Berlin: Mary Ellen Mark
LFI: Icons - David Hurn
Aperture: Zohra Opoku’s Evocative Reflections on Mortality and Resilience | by Ekow Eshun
Huck: Photographer Léonard Pongo - A dreamlike journey into the Democratic Republic of Congo | by Miss Rosen
Huck: Photography by Polo Silk, Fab 5 Legacy Archive - The Black American studio photographers who transformed history | by Miss Rosen
Blind: Exploring the Legacy of the Black Star Photo Agency | by Robert E. Gerhardt
Lenscratch: Chelsea Darter: A Prairie Fisher King | by Epiphany Knedler
Magnum: Emerging in Fragments: Sim Chi Yin’s ‘One Day We’ll Understand’ | Max Houghton writes on the photographer’s solo show exploring histories of anti-colonial resistance
Huck: The Horrific Impact of Russia’s War on Ukraine in Photos | Text by Isaac Muk - Photography by Courtesy of FotoEvidence
Tine Poppe: Exit Wonderland, Gilded Lilies, and a number of others
Pulitzer Center: Powerful photographs change how we think about issues and places. Associated Press photographer and Pulitzer Center grantee Rodrigo Abd does just that in a new series of striking images out of Afghanistan. In Afghanistan in a Box, Abd traveled the country with fellow grantees Bram Janssen and Elena Becatoros to capture a society in transition.
The Guardian: Photographer Joel Sage: Madame Arthur: Paris’s oldest gender-twisting cabaret
PhMuseum: Camille Lévêque's Inheritance of Trauma explores the generational heritage of trauma across the legacy of three generations of Armenian women.
BJP: Meet the winners of this year’s Carte Blanche Student competition | by Philippa Kelly
Hyperallergic: Armenian Artists Contemplate Notions of Home and Belonging | by AX Mina
Culture, Art and Design
Somewhere around Brick Lane. London, England. Photo: Robert Gumpert 18 September 2023
The Strand near Agar Street. London, England. Photo: Robert Gumpert 18 September 2023
Peta Pixel: Day of Action Urges Congress to Ban Companies Copyrighting AI Works | by Matt Growcoot
Artsy: 10 Latin American Artists at the Forefront of Abstraction | by Salomé Gómez-Upegui
The Guardian: ‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening | by Jason Wilson
El País: War elephants: How Carthage used a ‘psychological’ weapon the Romans failed to master | by Vincente G. Olaya
Blue Moment: The great-grandmother’s tale | by Richard Williams
Creative Boom: Joel Holland expresses his love for London via charming illustrations of shopfronts | by Dom Carter
High Country News: Myth and mending in the true West | by Betsy Gaines Quammen
i-D: Photographing Lana Del Rey fans in the American south - At a stop on her Bible Belt tour, John Parvin McBride met the die-hards who'd travelled far to see their favourite. | by John Marvin McBride and Douglas Greenwood
Designboom: A slender red opening slices the earth for Hajime Yoshida architecture’s land art in Japan | edited by ravail khan
Print: The Daily Heller: Another Poster Spectacular at Poster House
Hyperallergic: Required Reading - This week, museums and mental health, Google aims for our wallets, the marketing psychology of floor designs, Crayola color theory, and much more. | by Lakshmi Rivera Amin
Print: Support Banned Books with PRINT
Wallpaper: Takashi Murakami on his monsterizing San Francisco show | by Pei-ru Keh
Other Stuff
LA Times: L.A.'s forever war on smog | by Patt Morrison
The Washington Post: Winnipeg police think landfill holds bodies of missing Indigenous women | by Amanda Coletta
The New Yorker: London Breed’s Cynical Swing to the Right | by Jay Caspian Kang
The Guardian: Five big takeaways from the first half of the 2023 Rugby World Cup | by Robert Kitson
Dezeen: Reef Design Lab crafts Erosion Mitigation Units from recycled oyster shells | by Tian Lin
Psyche: The cognitive work involved in lying is relevant to lie detection and could help explain why some people are better liars | by Molly MacMillan, edited by Matt Huston
Washington Post: Alexa says the 2020 race was stolen, even as parent company Amazon promotes the voice assistant as a reliable source of election news. | by Cat Zakrzewski
Labor
Central Valley of California. Auto battery plant worker in the Central Valley of California, member of the UAW. 1988. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Print: The Daily Heller: Layoffs in the Publishing Industry Sting
The Guardian: Anti-Reagan cartoons and a jacket from Cesar Chavez: inside the UAW archive | Alaina Demopoulos
High Country News: The dark side of America’s sheep industry - Sheepherders face wage theft, isolation, hunger and alleged abuse. | by Teresa Cotsirilos
Civil Eats: Nighttime Harvests Protect Farmworkers From Extreme Heat, but Bring Other Risks | by Amy Mayer
The Guardian: Over 75,000 workers poised for largest healthcare strike in US history | by Michael Sainato
WKYT: EKY non-profit implements 32-hour workweeks for staff members | by Jeremy Tombs
The Real News Network: UAW’s Demand for a 32-Hour Work Week Would be a Win for the Planet | by Ashley Bishop
Labor Notes: Auto Workers Spare Big 3, Win Landmark Just Transition at General Motors | by Luis Feliz Leon
Headbanging Headlines:
Ad in the Potrero Hll View, a neighborhood free paper in San Francisco, California.
Dezeen: Renders have been revealed of a supertall skyscraper designed by UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects for the Trojena ski resort at Neom in Saudi Arabia. And: Zaha Hadid Architects designing sinuous lookout at Neom ski resort
Podcast
The Third Act: Episode 12 - Don McCullin with Catherine Fairweather
The Camera Store TV: William Albert Allard: Interview with a legendary photographer
Capturing Artistry: William Klein’s Photographic Journey
Blind: Exclusive: Never-Before-Seen Video of Robert Frank | by Bill Shapiro
BBC Outlook: The prison escape and the wooden keys
Books
Bloomberg: Angus Deaton’s New Book Says Economists Value Markets Over People | by Shawn Donnan
Figure.1: Finding American - Stories of Immigration from All 50 States | by Colin Boyd Shafer
Washington Post: Werner Herzog’s memoir is as delightfully bizarre as his films | by Becca Rothfeld
thebluemoment.com: Sly Stone’s testament | by Richard Williams
Social Issues
New Socialist: Not One of the Decent People | by Carl Nevill
Aeon: In the interests of all - How Eugene V Debs turned American republicanism against the chiefs of capitalism and became a true crusader for freedom | by Tom O’Shea, Edited by Sam Dresser
The Guardian: ‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat | by Damian Carrington
Texas Monthly: James Reyos Has Always Been Innocent. After Forty Years, the Courts Agree. | by Michael Hall
DW: Hundreds of migrants overwhelm tiny Canary Island
El País: Tokischa - ‘There’s still racism, there’s still slavery, no longer with the whip, but through work. It’s a cycle that repeats itself’ | by Gabriela Wiener
Division Street
Citilaundry Wash & Dry. Geary at 37th Ave. SF, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 03 October 2023
LA Times: Fallen from the middle class: 60, living in an RV and fighting to be housed | by Paloma Esquivel, Rachel Uranga. Photos by Irfan Khan
LA Times: Opinion: Why our views of drugs and homelessness are all wrong
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25 September - 01 October 2023
Westbourne Bridge. London, England 12 September 2023. Photo Robert Gumpert
Built sometime after 1909 for the Great Western Railway it bridges the tracks running in and out of Paddington. Used by motor and foot traffic the bridge connects with the Harrow Road and Westbourne Terrace. Since 2008 I’ve made it a habit to walk the bridge at least once during any visit to London. Until a couple of weeks ago, the last time was February of 2020 as the pandemic hit. For more from the bridge go here
Westbourne Bridge. London, England 12 September 2023. Photo Robert Gumpert
Built sometime after 1909 for the Great Western Railway it bridges the tracks running in and out of Paddington. Used by motor and foot traffic the bridge connects with the Harrow Road and Westbourne Terrace. Since 2008 I’ve made it a habit to walk the bridge at least once during any visit to London. Until a couple of weeks ago when I found the bridge mostly painted white,, the last time was February of 2020 as the pandemic hit. For more from the bridge go here
Photography
Mother Jones: “I’m Doing the Best I Can”: Stories From California’s Unsheltered Community | Interviews by Aaron Schrank, Photography by Sam Comen
La Galerie Rouge: Les Mondes de Jill Freedman
The Guardian: ‘I try to photograph the unseen’: Michael Kenna on 50 years of shooting breathtaking landscapes | by Graeme Green
Aperture: How Archives Illuminate the History and Culture of Ghana | by Kobby Ankomah Graham
The Guardian: Gauri Gill wins Prix Pictet award
The Guardian: Wildfires, war and rightwing extremism: 50 years of Europe in photos, part two | Jon Henley and Guy Lane
LA Times: 9,000 asylum seekers cross from Mexico to Eagle Pass, Texas | by Robert Gauther/staff photographer
1854 Photography: The inside story of Sofia Karim's activist curation | by Ravi Ghosh
The Guardian: Don McCullin: ‘Photographing landscapes takes my mind off all I’ve seen. It’s healing’ | by Michael Segalov
The New Yorker: Jamie Lee Taete’s The Playful and Provocative Images of “Christian Tourism” | by Casey Cep
The New Yorker: Barbara Mensch/Watching the Southern Tip of Manhattan Change, for Forty Years | by Nicole Rudick
The Guardian: Reeperbahn rendezvous: the glorious dive bar photos of Anders Petersen | by Simon Bowcock
The Guardian: ‘I am the witness and the subject’: Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg on telling his own story | by Sean O’Hagan
Culture, Art and Design
National Portrait Gallery. London, England. 15 September 2023. Photo Robert Gumpert
The Guardian: ‘It was like Blade Runner meets Berlin rave’: the Manchester sink estate with the UK’s wildest nightclub | by Daniel Dylan Wray
the blue moment: Richard Williams - Miles à l’Olympia
LA Times: Cassandro changed the role of exoticos in lucha libre | by Hector Diaz
PRINT Magazine: Cutting into Alexa Edgerton’s Viral Cake Letters | by Charlotte Beach
Washington Post: Phone call etiquette: Rules for calling, texting and leaving voice mails | by Heather Kelly
JSTOR Daily: No Joke - Using humor to mask and normalize hatred and bigotry has a long, ugly history. | Pratiksha Thangam Menon
JSTOR Daily: The San Diego Lowrider Archival Project - The lessons of “low and slow.” | by lberto López Pulido
LA Times: The scientific reason why you can't stop going to Disneyland | by Daryl Austin
Other Stuff
The Tube. London, England. 13 September 2023. Photo Robert Gumpert
The Guardian: TechScape: AI-made images mean seeing is no longer believing | by Chris Stokel-Walker
404 Media: First Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated Selfie | Emanuel Maiberg
Scroll: The dismantling of democracy in India will affect the whole world | by Arundhati Roy
Psyche: Facing a tedious to-do list? This trick could make it easier | by Christian Jarrett
Live Science: James Webb telescope spots thousands of Milky Way lookalikes that 'shouldn't exist' swarming across the early universe | by Ben Turner
Ars Technica: Scientists just opened the lid to NASA’s asteroid sample canister | by Stephen Clark
Washington Post: Perspective | How dream of air conditioning turned into dark future of climate change | by Philip Kennicott
Labor
The Guardian: California’s fast-food workers win fight for $20 hourly pay and industry council | by Michael Sainato
Aeon: What Kant can teach us about work: on the problem with jobs | by Tyler Re, Edited by Sam Haselby
LA Taco: 'The Office' Star Rainn Wilson Brought Jerk Chicken Tacos to the Picket Lines Outside of Paramount Studios | by Lexis-Olivier Ray
LA Times: California workers who cut countertops are dying of silicosis | by Emily Alpert Reyes, Cindy Carcamo
NY Times: Why Some Ex-Workers at Bed Bath & Beyond Face 401(k) Losses | by Ann Carrns
Podcast
The Photowalk: #402 - Photographer David Wright The Art of Togetherness
404: Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show | Jason Koehler
BBC Sounds: Ken Loach: The Sequel
Books
Washington Post: The majority of all school book challenges in the 2021-2022 school year came from just 11 people. Meet Jennifer Petersen. | by Hannah Nation
London Review of Books: Defanged: Deifying King | by Eric Toner
Washington Post: Dylan C. Penningroth’s new book illuminates how Black Americans used property ownership, common law and other methods to assert their rights | Review by Matthew F. Delmont
MACK: Jim Goldberg’s extraordinary ‘Coming and Going’ – out now
Social Issues
Near Spitalfields Market. London, England. 25 September 2023. Photo Robert Gumpert
Photo Jesus on a lamb post
NY Times: Child labor and a broken border | by David Leonhardt
Searchlight New Mexico: 'State of chaos': New Mexico’s child welfare crisis is worse, monitors say | by Ed Williams
Arts Professional: Leeds festival: The environmental hangover | by Jack Lowe
The Guardian: San Francisco razed its ‘Harlem of the West’. Detectives seek those who lost homes | by Robin Buller
The Guardian: This racist US housing policy that tried to fix poverty is a massive failure | Alex Moffett-Bateau
The Nation: In Defense of Drug Decriminalization—Yes, in Oregon | by Abdullah Shihipar, Alexandria Macmandu and Brandon D.L. Marshall
Washington Post: Monster wind turbines floating offshore could be future of wind energy | by William Booth
The Philadelphia Inquirer: A MAGA gunman in New Mexico and “the end of politics” in America | by will Bunch
Division Street
Portrait from the book “Division Street”, published by Dewi Lewis. See more of the book including portraits and stories Here
Name: Jula Perez, 42; James Jeffrey Perez Brown, 5 mths; Elijah Perez Brown, 2
Without a home: A long time
Place: Compass Family Services
Date: 18 December 2019
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.”
“Hardest thing is having children. Having to explain to my son certain things, why we have to do things especially like being in a shelter they make you leave at a certain point, the light being on, the sounds … The hardest part is not being comfortable - is not having a place of comfort. It’s very dehumanizing. There’s a stigmatizing to it, especially in this city where people are walking over people lying on the street as they’re on their iPhones. One thing I say to my older son, if someone is just lying in the street you make sure that they’re OK. Here I think that’s kind of forgotten. You walk over people, you don’t know if they’re dead, but you don’t care. You don’t even see them; you have like these blockers on. It’s like that dehumanizing thing (but) we’re all the same. If I was lying on the ground, I would hope somebody would check to see if I’m OK.”
“It’s very difficult because the shelters put you out at a certain time, you have to be in by 5 and out by 7, depending on the day. But when I have children they need a nap, it’s very difficult to find respite on the street.”
“We’re all human, we all go through rough times. I tell my son the world is your home. Not these little boxes, these four walls. For me anywhere I’m at is my home. This is our birthright. This is our inheritance and we all share it. There is no way any of us should be without, with as many resources as we have. The unequal distribution of it has gotten out of control.”
Mother Jones: “I’m Doing the Best I Can”: Stories From California’s Unsheltered Community | Interviews by Aaron Schrank, Photography by Sam Comen
New York/The Cut: When I Was Homeless, I Feared Becoming Invisible | by Kaitlin Byrd
KQED: San Francisco Will Enforce Sit-Lie Laws When People Refuse Shelter | by Sydney Johnson
The New Yorker: A Journey from Homelessness to a Room of One’s Own | by Jennifer Egan
SF Frisc: Amid Noisy SF Homelessness Fights, A Very Quiet Push to Get People Off the Streets | by Alex Lash
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11 September - 24 October 2023
7 Days is back, if a bit shorter than usual
Both images Bricklane. London, England
Photos Robert Gumpert 18 September 2023
Photography
Magnum: Famous Faces From the Darkroom
The Leica Camera Blog: Portugal 1973 – 2023: A Work in Progress | by Alfredo Cunha
Hackney Museum: At Home in Hackney: A community photographed 1970s-today | curated I believe by: Jessica Goodison Burgess (Go see the show!)
The New Yorker: Friendship and Gender Rebellion in Nineties San Francisco | by Crispin Long
Thoughts of a Bohemian: Where have the archives of Sygma photographers gone?
The Guardian: Defying a decade of gun violence in Baltimore | words and images JM Giordano
Field of View: Patrick Witty - The Photographers in Hitler’s Bathtub
Huck: Celebrating the Art of the Photo Book | by Miss Rosen
The Guardian: Dennis Dinneen bar and photos - A pint and a portrait: the landlord who snapped small town legends | by Sean O’Hagan
The Guardian: Jim Mortram’s Small Town Inertia: portraits of a nation in need | by Anglia Square
The Guardian: Mavis CW - Shady moments: New York street life
NY Times: The Young Men of the Crick | Intro by Judith Freeman, Photos and text: Jim Mangan
Culture, Art and Design
Spitalfields Market. London, England. 18 September 2023
Photo: Robert Gumpert
Print: Life Doesn’t Come With GPS. Especially When You Need It Most | by Liz Gumbinner
LA Times: Neil Young and Crazy Horse turn back time at Roxy Theatre | by Michael Wood
Hackney Museum: What’s your Hackney story
Creative Boom: How to promote and build your creative business without using social media | by Katy Cowan
The Guardian: ‘Oldest wooden structure’ discovered on border of Zambia and Tanzania | by Ian Sample
Design Boom: japan’s oldest prison building set to reopen in 2026 as luxury hotel with adjoining museum | by Matthew Burgos
NY Times: Jango Edwards, Clown Who Challenged His Art Form, Dies at 73 | by Clay Risen
Washington Post: The racist incident that shook baseball nine years before integration | by Frederic J. Frommer
Other Stuff
El País: Medical ethics organization lodges complaint over monkey deaths in Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip trials
Washington Post: Perspective | How dream of air conditioning turned into dark future of climate change | by Philip Kennicott
BBC: Quobna Cugoano: London church honours Ghanaian-born freed slave and abolitionist
Huck: Why We Need A Right to Food | by Ian Bye MP
Labor
Lunch time, lower Manhattan, New York City. 14 September 2019
Photo Robert Gumpert
Podcast
Aeon Videos: Photographs offer a colonialist window to the past – one that must be challenged | by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, director: Brian Storm
Social Issues
JSTOR Daily: The Pan-American Highway and the Darién Gap | by Matthew Wills
SF Chronicle: He was the face of Red Power. The true story of his killing has never been told | by Jason Fagone and Julie Johnson
Division Street
Bishopsgate Road, across from Liverpool Station. London, England. 18 September 2023
Photo: Robert Gumpert
ProPublica: Massachusetts to Launch 90-Day Push to Fill Vacant State-Funded Apartments | by Todd Wallack, WBUR
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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
4 September - 10 September 2023
7 Days: may, may not, publish again in September - but will be back either the 1st or 8th October.
Butcher. Paris, France 2016 Photo Robert Gumpert
Photography
The Guardian: Photographer Benny Lam has documented the suffocating living conditions in Hong Kong’s subdivided flats, recording the lives of these hidden communities
The Guardian: ‘When your eye, heart and brain are aligned, that’s when you take a photo’: Pier Luigi Dodi’s best phone picture | by Grace Holliday
Magnum Photos: Emerging in Fragments: Sim Chi Yin’s 'One Day We'll Understand'
Culture, Art and Design
Diners, SOHO, London, England 18 January 2016 Photo Robert Gumpert
Print: The Daily Heller: Bill Russell is Journalistic Illustration’s Fan and Chronicler
Creative Boom: Future Rust, Future Dust: Loïc Vendrame's series explores the ruins of the modern world | by Tom May
LA Times: HBO is ending 'Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel' after 29 years | by Stephen Battaglio
The Bitter Southerner: Lucinda Williams and the Idea of Louisiana | by Wyatt Williams
Design Boom: Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego capture Brutalism across Italy
Other Stuff
The Guardian: When Elon Musk’s ‘flying sofas’ give Ukraine internet access, we can’t sit comfortably | by John Naughton
Labor
Washington Post: The veteran TV writer (“Homicide,” “Oz”), on his fourth strike in 40 years, is fighting to save the profession that gave him a legacy.
Podcast
Waiting on the plane. SFO, San Francisco, California 5 November 2017 Photo Robert Gumpert
The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography: Sandy Sugawara and Catiana Garcia Kilroy “Show Me the Way Home”
BBC Sounds - The Food Chain: This kid cooks
BBC Sounds - Assignment: Surviving Greece’s boat disaster
Social Issues
Washington Post: Five billion people will face extreme heat at least a month each year by 2050
Washington Post: Pakistan bears the brunt of global extreme heat illness and mortality | by Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda and Saiyna Bashir
The Guardian: Almost 1m people across Europe are homeless on any given night | by Lisa O’Carroll
Washington Post: The March on Washington, 60 years later: Memories from 1963 participant
ProPublica: Utah Makes Welfare So Hard to Get, Some Feel They Must Join the LDS Church to Get Aid | by Eli Hager, photography by Kim Raff for ProPublica
NY Times: Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices | by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
LA Times: Orange Unified says it will notify parents if student IDs as transgender | by Howard Blum
LA Times: Even the least expensive areas of California are becoming less affordable, and more desirable | by Terry Castelman
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SF Chronicle: S.F. has 1,000 empty units for the homeless | by Aldo Toledo
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7 Days: may, may not, publish again in September - but will be back either the 1st or 8th October.
Point Lobos-remains of Sutro Baths. San Francisco, California 03 January 2021 Photo Robert Gumpert
28 August - 03 September 2023
Moving ballot boxes to a secure area after the vote in February 1986 that ousted the corrupt leader Marcos. Photo Robert Gumpert
Photography
Blind: Roo Lewis - Twisted Metal, Pointed Skyward, Point Talbot, Wales
Lens Culture: Gilded Lilies | Photographs by Tine Poppe
Interview by Sophie Wright
Polka: Irak: Et au Milieu Pleure Le Tigre… | by Laurène Daycare
Polka: La Courneuve, 1978: Les Premières Fissures Photographièes Par Sebastiāo Salgado | by Sebastiāo Salgado
Hunk: Inside the Historic Mixed-Race Club in the Heart of Apartheid-Era Cape Town | Text by Miss Rosen, Photography by Michael Wyeth
Blind: Niki Boon - Child of Nature | by Max Hirshfeld
Lenscratch: Photographers on Photographers: Ian White in Conversation with Curran Hatleberg | by Ian Edward White
Aperture: The curator Marie Meyerding speaks about a group exhibition of photographers who exposed the effects of race, gender, and class on everyday life. | Interviews by Stefanie Qaba Jason
Field of View: Patrick Witty on Mug Shots
Magnum: Patrick Zachmann - The Story of Andrea Mormile and the Neapolitan Mafia
The Conversation: Lindokuhle Sobekwa's powerful personal journey as a photographer in South Africa | by Neelika Jayawardane
Blind: Richard Avedon’s Trailblazing Portrait of the American West | by Miss Rosen
Blind: Listening to Avedon | by Max Hirshfeld
LFI: Community
Lenscratch: Liz Albert and Shane Vanoosterhout: Instant Classic | by Aline Smithson
Aperture: La Dolce Vita According to Sam Youkilis | Interview by Chiara Bardelli Nonino
Culture, Art and Design
Rightwing DJ using his radio show to promote rightwing violence. Southern Philippines. 1988 Photo Robert Gumpert
Reading the Pictures - Notes: Barbiecore is Litmus Test in Post-Roe America | by Leslie A. Hahner
LA Times: ‘What’s that foot thing?!’ Shufflers are doing the ‘running man’ at L.A.’s iconic places | by Michelle Vartan, Photography by Mel Melcon
Creative Boom: Tea For Three: Illustrator Junjun Chen invites you to look at fear from a different perspective | by Dom Carter
Dezeen: "Space that is exclusionary does not live up to its full potential” | by Annie Jean-Baptiste
Design Boom: SPACE10 is closing after a decade of boosting IKEA's innovation culture | by Lea Zeitoun
It’s Nice That: Space10 – Ikea’s innovative research and design lab – is closing | by Olivia Hingley
The New Yorker: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh | by Werner Herzog
LA Times: The life of LA’s most bizarre celebrity photographer | by Jeffrey Fleishman
Creative Boom: Shelley Hanmo's paper collage creations summon Asian folklore and her love of music | by Tom May
It’s Nice That: Originally for Vogue Portugal’s June 2023 issue on ‘travel’, this collaborative project from Charlotte, Lydia Chan and Athena Paginton takes us deep into the labyrinths of our world. | by Joey Levenson
Print: The Daily Heller: Is Post-Branding a Thing?
Other Stuff
Outside the Embankment tube stop. London, England. 24 May 2015 Photo Robert Gumpert
Nautilus: The Uncanny Sight of Waves Breaking on a Star | by Brian Gallagher
Knowable Magazine: Charles Henry Turner’s Insights Into Animal Behavior Were a Century Ahead of Their Time | by Alla Katsnelson
Nautilus: What Separates Highly Creative People | Brian Gallagher
Washington Post: Christian home-schooler Michael Farris - speaking on a confidential conference call to a secretive group of Christian millionaires seeking, in the words of one member, to “take down the education system as we know it today,” | by Emma Brown and Peter Jamison
Reuters: Burger King must face lawsuit claiming its Whoppers are too small | by Jonathan Stempel
PetaPixel: Burger King Faces Lawsuit Over Size of Whopper in Ad Photos | by Pesala Bandar
LA Times: Documents released by U.S. show knowledge of 1973 Chile coup | by Tracy Wilkinson
McSweeney’s: Congratulations on your new academic position of Assistant Professor of Annual Reviews, Student Evaluations, Tenure Review, Post-Tenure Review, and [your discipline] | by Jennie Young
Labor
Garment workers, members of what was in 1983, the ACTWU. Photo Robert Gumpert
Print: What If Designers Went on Strike? | by Ricardo Saca
Washington Post: Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’ | by Rebecca Tan and Regine Cabato
The Japan Times: System failure halts operations at 12 Toyota factories | by Jesse Johnson
Labor Notes: Kentucky Auto Workers at Ford Are Preparing for a Strike | by Luis Feliz Leon
Hollywood Reporter: Five Late Night Hosts Unite to Launch Podcast Benefiting Strike-Impcted Staff | by Lacy Rose
Longreads: Relentless Toil: A Reading List About Filipino Laborers - The sacrifices of Filipino workers at home and abroad are enormous. | by Amy DePaul
Mountain State Spotlight: West Virginia coal miners suffer from black lung despite silica dust exposure limits | by Allen Siegler
LA Times: Studios already lost writers', SAG strikes. Time to surrender | by Mary McNamara
Forbes: The Implications Of AI Elements Not Being Protected By Copyright | by Schuyler Moore
Cherry pickers near Stockton, California taking a break in the shade of the trees in the 106 degree heat. 2002 Photo Robert Gumpert
Washington Post: Climate change imperils indoor workers in Southeast Asia and beyond | by Rebecca Tan and Vasapa Wanichwethin
Headbanging Headlines:
East Hollywood. Los Angeles, California 1972 Photo Robert Gumpert
LA Times: Column: COVID lockdowns saved millions of lives — so of course Ron DeSantis is mad about them
The Guardian: US driver pulled over with huge African bull riding shotgun in car
Awful Announcing: Rachel Nichols compares Hard Knocks to The Kardashians: ‘It’s not journalism.’
Podcast
Points South: Mamie's Blues: Women in Storyville | produced by Sara A. Lewis and Christian Leus. Our Points South intern is Adam Forrester
BBC Outlook: Lost and Found - Girl on a Spacehopper - photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
BBC Sounds: The Briefing Room - What’s the problem with Airbnb
The Photowalk: How telling stories transforms lives - Ilvy Njiokiktjien
A Small Voice: #212 - Benjamin Rasmussen
The Moth: Different Ways of Learning: Adrienne Lotson and Lopaka Kapanui
Books
Photobook Journal: Sandy Sugawara & Catiana Garcia-Kilroy – Show Me the Way to Go to Home | by Wayne Swanson
Metal: Abhishek Khedekar’s “Tamasha” | by Zach Lee
Social Issues
Washington Post: John Eastman’s defense is shattered in state bar proceeding | by Jennifer Rubin
SF Standard: Elon Musk Calls for Boycott of Law Firm Involved in San Francisco Homelessness Lawsuit | by David Sjostedt
The City: Demand Grows to Make Rikers Island Death Reports Public | by Reuven Blau
LA Times: Americans face an epidemic of loneliness. For some, supermarket self-checkouts make it worse | by Marisa Gerber
Time: Decriminalizing Opioids Will Save Countless Lives | by Peter Grinspoon
National Catholic Reporter: Pope Francis blasts reactionary American Catholics who oppose church reform | by Christopher White
The Guardian: ‘It stops you cold’: the 272 enslaved people sold to fund Georgetown
Washington Post: Texas highways targeted by antiabortion activists seeking to block interstate travel | by Caroline Kitchener
SF Chronicle: California city using SCOTUS affirmative action ruling to stop housing | by Emily Hoeven
Mountain State Spotlight: What are needle exchanges? Why do they exist? | by Ellen Siegler
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The Guardian: English councils moving homeless families out of areas at almost three times official rate | by Matthew Weaver
SF Chronicle: ‘I’m constantly under threat’: Homeless women in S.F. share stories of survival and resilience | by Mallory Munch
Washington Post: D.C. failed to house 98 percent of homeless young adults last year, data shows | by Marissa J. Lang and Justin Wm. Moyer
Washington Post: Cash transfers reduce homelessness, raise savings, Canada study says | by Kelsey Ables
SF Public Press: SF Uses Events, Construction to Clear Streets Ahead of Summit | by Mel Baker
KQED: In Act of Civil Disobedience, Activists Set Up Safe Drug Consumption Site in San Francisco | by Sydney Johnson
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21 August - 27 August 2023
Ocean Beach as seen from the just south of the Cliff House. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 21 August 2023
Photography
Blind: Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective | by Robert E. Gerhardt
i-D: Allen Ginsberg's vintage portraits of the Beat generation | bu Lydia Files
i-D: Frank Stewart took his first photographs at the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs in 1963 and never looked back. | by Miss Rosen
Artsy: 11 Contemporary Artists Working in Abstract Photography | by Elyssa Goodman
Creative Boom: BikeLife: Matthew Joseph captures the humanity of a misinterpreted underground movement | by Dom Carter
Field of View: The Bombing of Nagasaki, Part Two | by Patrick Witty
Frieze: Nuku Studio Sees Photography as a Catalyst for Social Change | by Vanessa Peterson
Aeon: Exposed - Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people | by Sadie Levy Gale, edited by Marina Benjamin
Thames&Hudson: What happens when we look: David Campany on photography’s flux | by David Campany
Culture, Art and Design
The Guardian: Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society | by James Tapper
Five Things Seen and Heard: Thursday, August 22rd | Six Robbie Robertson Songs & Performances for the ages | Martin Colyer
School of Visual Arts: SVA Celebrates Its Subway Posters Series with a Retrospective Exhibition ‘Underground Images: A History’ opens on August 29 in New York City.
Dezeen: Notan Office creates "micro-city" of housing on an industrial site in Brussels | by Betty Owoo
Hyperallergic: Stipan Tadić’s From Brooklyn to the Bronx in 36 Paintings | by Elaine Velie
Evening Standard: The India Club: Historic Indian restaurant to close after more than 70 years | by Josh Barrie
LA Times: Concerts, movies, airplanes: Why bad behavior is on the rise | by Mary McNamara
The Marshall Project: Redemption Songs: The Forgotten History of American Prison Music | by Maurice Chammah
El País: Graffiti: More than writing on the wall | by David Dorenbaum
Psyche: This is how to nurture curiosity in children (and yourself) | by Shana Love, edited by Matt Huston
The Guardian: Orcas accused of attacking boats may be ‘following fad’, scientists say | by Phoebe Weston
Other Stuff
Dezeen: "The design professions are not stepping up to address the wildfires problem” | by Greg Kochanowski
The Guardian: US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network | by Jason Wilson
The New Yorker: Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule | by Ronan Farrow
Salon: "I've never seen anything like it": Economic analyst stunned at sources of Jared Kushner's funds | by Tatyana Tandanpolie
Labor
Mission Local: Uber & Lyft drivers shrug at robotaxi future: ‘It’s bound to happen’ | by Yujie Zhou
SF Chronicle: Cruise, Waymo cars make these errors on SF streets in front of drivers
Jacobin: Shawn Fain Is Right: The Workweek Should Be Shorter | by Alex N. Press
LA Times: How writers', SAG strikes inspired global worker solidarity | by Mary McNamara
SF Chronicle: Why the AI boom is different from San Francisco’s last tech surge | by Chase DiFeliciaantonio
Headbanging Headlines:
Washington Post: San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese files for Chapter 11 over sex abuse lawsuits
The Guardian: NHS cancer targets breached 1m times since Rishi Sunak became PM
History Channel (youtube): Ancient Aliens: Amazing Sphinx Connection to Lost City of Atlantis
Podcast
The World in Time/Lapham’s Quarterly: Episode 102: Robert D. Kaplan
BBC - The Inquiry: Is work from home working?
Aeon: The rise and fall of Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong’s infamous urban monolith (video)
Social Issues
A declarative statement on Division at Potrero. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 21 August 2023
Huck: How the Housing Crisis is Trapping People in Dangerous Situations | by Eve Upton-Clark
SF Chronicle: Drug overdose death rates for every US county
The Guardian: Wish you weren’t here! How tourists are ruining the world’s greatest destinations | by Zoe Williams
The Boston Globe: Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free? | by Annalisa Quinn
CPJ: CPJ deeply disturbed by police raid on Kansas newspaper
NY Times: The 1963 March on Washington Changed America. Its Roots Were in Harlem | by Jon Leland
NY Times: The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City From Scratch | by Conor Dougherty and Erin Griffith
Media Matters: Update: Under Linda Yaccarino, X is placing ads for major brands on a verified pro-Hitler account | by Eric Hananoki
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Truthout: Don’t Blame Drug Decriminalization for What the Housing Crisis Has Caused | by Morgan Godvin
Invisible People: Pipeline To Homelessness: Aging Out Of The Foster Care System | by Victoria Vandal
LA Times: Leasing is faster way to get the homeless housed
The Nation: Why the Right Is Winning Its War on Unhoused People | by Ned Resnikoff
LA Times: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass scores a U.S. policy shift to expedite homeless housing | by Doug Smith
Jacobin: New Deal–Era Leftists Tried to Win Beautiful Social Housing for the Masses | by Gail Radford
Beyond Chron: Take Back the City | by Mike Miller
The Guardian: San Diego ramps up arrests of unhoused people: ‘Harder to survive’ | by Sam Levin
From the ongoing Division Street Project
Sleeping rough, 18th and San Bruno. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 21 August 2023
Marcel McCraw, 51. Mr McCraw has lived in San Francisco for 51 years and been unhoused, off and on, for 18-19. Meridian on Potrero Avenue Photo Robert Gumpert 7 August 2023
Mr. McCraw’s Story:
I’m just struggling, man. Not just a year ago I was living in a box, just me and my puppy, and now I’m in a more structured environment even though I’m still out here. I’m still homeless. I am employed. I’m still struggling everyday situations out here, dealing with the shuffle [being told to move], that’s what I call it. I take it day by day man. I choose to just keep trying everyday, everyday no matter what and it’s hard. But what am I going to do, just lay down and stop? Can’t do that.
I felt like once I became employed that things would be different, [but] no it’s not like that. It’s even harder. Learning how to be responsible, practicing being responsible on a day to day basis verses having no worries, and no cares, is different. You got to become disciplined, in doing so you got to stop doing a lot of things you did before.
I’m older now, I don’t have too much time left. I’m thinking about what kind of legacy I want to leave out here to my kids and my younger generation of friends. A lot of very good people have died on these streets. For what? For nothing. I don’t want to be one of them.
See more stories and images of living on the street in my photobook “Division Street”. Or see all the images and read all the stories by buying the book from Dewi Lewis
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14 August - 20 August 2023
Morning on Potrero Avenue between Alameda and Division Street. 30 July 2023. Photo Robert Gumpert
Photography
Blind: African American Life by Rufus Holsinger | by Miss Rosen
Creative Boom: Giving homelessness a voice: Marc Davenant on embedding humanity in his Outsiders project | by Olivia Atkins
Conscientious: Kazumichi, Hiromichi: Daidō | by Jörg M. Colberg
UNP: Who were we without a photography? Or captions are needed | by Grant Scott
Mírame y sé color: Jill Freedman
BJP: Nick Hedges on Shelter, Camerawork, and photo democracy | by Diane Smyth
The Guardian: Australia’s National Photographic Portrait prize 2023
The Guardian: International Portrait Photographer of the Year 2023
Blind: Police guitarist Andy Summers unearths hypnotic photographs that evoke the poetic majesty of music. | by Miss Rosen
Aperture: n his videos and multimedia works about Vietnam, Tuan Andrew Nguyen shows how large-scale events reverberate through interpersonal stories. | by Mimi Wong
Washington Post: Photographer Morgan Ashcom salvaged a disaster and made something exquisite from it | by Kenneth Dickerman
LFI: Shelby Lee Adams - From the Heads of the Hollers
Float: Home is Where
UNP: Forgotten Photographers Are The Key to Contemporary Success | by Grant Scott
Chavez Photo: Photographs from around the world
The New Yorker - Photo Booth: Unearthing the History of Anaheim - William Camargo | by Geraldo Cadava
Aperture: Toyo Miyatake’s Indelible Record of Life inside the Manzanar Internment Camp | Ken Chen
Huck: The Black Seaweed Farmer Growing a New Life on the Scottish Isles | Text by Alex King - Photography by Raphael Rychetsky
Coffee and Donuts Publications: Tigers in the Pit: The Pacific Exchange. Photos and interviews Robert Gumpert
Culture, Art and Design
The Big Blue Ox at "Trees of Mystery" on Highway 101. Klamath, CA. 20 October 2012 Photo Robert Gumpert
Lens Culture: Another America — AI-Generated Photos from the 1940s and 50s | AI-generated images by Phillip Toledano - Interview by Jim Casper
JSTOR Daily: Exposing the Sexual Hypocrisy of European Colonists | by Livia Gershon
McSweeney’s: Dangerous children’s picture books that could be lucking in your home | by Shanna Walsh
The Guardian: ‘They thought they were immortal’: the rise and fall of San Francisco’s 60s music scene | by Charles Bramesco
Art in America: Kehinde Wiley’s New Work Underscores the Pitfalls of His Signature Approach: Swapping Black Figures into European Compositions | by Harley Wong
Print: The Daily Heller: Everyday Handmade Signs From Mexico City
Print: Bryan Yonki’s New Book is a Love Letter to the Hand-Painted Signs of Los Angeles | by Charlotte Beach
The Art Newspaper: Officials from three countries have called on Denver Art Museum to return eight artefacts in its collection | by Benjamin Sutton
Mission Local: A Cultural Mission & La Familia Santana | by Andrew Gilbert
Aeon: Wittgenstein in the classroom - The philosopher understood that learning – of a concept, of ourselves, of each other – is the undertaking of a whole life | by Calum Jacobs edited by Nigel Warburton
The Guardian: ‘Our own little congregation’: the people of London’s soon-to-close Smithfield market | by Tom Ambrose Photographs by Jill Mead
Other Stuff
Fishing on the Embarcadero just north of the SF Bay Bridge. 19 August 2023. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert
NPR: Kansas editor says paper investigated police chief prior to newsroom raid | by Danielle Kaye, David Folkenflik
Scientific American: Neuroscientists Re-create Pink Floyd Song from Listeners’ Brain Activity | by Lucy Tu
Print: News From a Changing Planet: The Atomic Age | by Tatiana Schlossberg
El País: Lula savors popularity rise, with 60% approval as president of Brazil | by Naiara Galarraga Gortázar
SF Chronicle: ‘The recovery is absolutely starting’: Why one contrarian office investor is buying in downtown S.F. | J.K. Dineen
Japan Times: WHO holds first traditional medicine summit
DW: Spain Socialists win speaker role with Catalan parties' help
DW: Japan's tech industry needs Africa's critical minerals
Dawn: Pakistan’s Afghanistan policy | by Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
The Guardian: George Soros foundation’s retreat from Europe could ‘turn off the lights’ for human rights | by Philip Otermann
Labor
1981: Dyer, New York City Photo: Robert Gumpert
The Guardian: Los Angeles: hotel workers’ strike ignites backlash among academics | by Mary Yang
The Guardian: West Virginia - A renewable energy battery plant will rise in US where a steel mill once stood | by Dharna Noor
Hyperallergic: Art Institute of Chicago Workers Ratify Union Contract | by Rhea Nayyar
LA Times: Climate change causes life-threatening heat for California farmworkers | by Paloma Esquivel
JSTOR Daily: Japanese American immigrant wives in the American West attempted to improve their living conditions through sex work. | by H.M.A. Leow
El País: Virtual factories: Manufacturers use digital twins in the quest for a new industrial revolution | Helen Massy-Beresford
Hollywood Reporter: Hollywood Crew Are “Forgotten Casualties” in Strike, MPTF Chief Says in Call for Financial Aid | by Kirsten Chuba
Headbanging Headlines:
CNET: Meet LG's StanbyMe Go, the Portable Touchscreen TV That's Also a Suitcase
Podcast
Documentary Storytellers: Natalie Keyssar - Documentary Photographer | interviewed by Chris King
California Sun: Margot Bushel explains homelessness in California
BBC The Food Chain: Banh mi: A sandwich with a story
Ben Smith’s A Small Voice: 211 - Yelena Yemchuk
YouTube: La Doña - Paloma No Vuelve Amar (Official Video)
NPR: After six decades, blues legend Bobby Rush isn't slowing down | by Noah Caldwell, Tinbete Ermyas, Mary Louise Kelly
Books
Creative Boom: New photo book looks at how Soviet playgrounds bred communism, cosmology and culture | by Olivia Atkins
JSTOR Daily: Los Angeles, Lions, and Looking for Happiness Well-researched stories from Aeon, The New Yorker, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
RRB Photobooks: David Hurn - Photographs 1955-2022
Hyperallergic: An Art Thief’s Tale of Love and Seduction - Stéphane Breitwieser stole several billion dollars worth of art from more than 150 museums before he was caught in 2001. | by Erin L. Thompson
Social Issues
The basic three forms of shelter for the unhoused: An RV, tent, and blanket. On Hampshire Street near 17th. 08 August 2023 Photo Robert Gumpert
The Guardian: Revealed: neo-Nazi active club counts several of US military as members | by Ali Winston
Hyperallergic: Israeli Scholars and Artists Call Occupation of Palestine “Apartheid” | by Maya Pontone
LA Times: Birth rate up in Japan ‘miracle town’ amid population crisis | by Stephanie Yang
El País: The Underground Railroad of the south: The unknown story of the slaves who fled to Mexico | by Ikea Seisdedos
Tortoise: Exclusive: suicides linked to domestic abuse come under increasing scrutiny | by Louise Tickle
Washington Post: Americans say the political system is broken. These forces help explain why | by Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse
NPR: USC Annenberg study shows Hollywood movies still lack diversity | by Chloe Veltman
Mission Local: SF jail health officials say they need more staff—not more money | by Annika Hom
Washington Post: West Virginia University plans to cut foreign languages and other programs | by Nick Anderson
Aeon: The work of John Rawls shows that liberal values of equality and freedom are fundamentally incompatible with capitalism | by Colin Bradley, Edited by Nigel Warburton
Division Street
Robbie Lebon, 45 and homeless for about 5 years. Division Street east of 9th and San Bruno. 7 October 2021 Photo: Robert Gumpert
48 Hills: ‘The system is broken’ - A photographer working with homeless people reflects on the utter failure of the city's sweeps and housing policy. | by Robert Gumpert
48 Hills: The city could buy a vacant building for half the price of building new affordable housing | Tim Readman
LA Times: Walker, heart monitor, docs trashed: Homeless people sue cities | by Cari Spencer
SF Chronicle: St. James Infirmary is shutting its doors, leaving key programs to help trans homeless people in jeopardy at a time when services have never been more in demand | by Nuala Bishari
Scoop: Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need
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07 August - 13 August 2023
Roses in the garden. 10 July 2023 Photos Robert Gumpert
Photography
Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2023: Short List
Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2023: Jonas Kakó, The Dying River
Field of View: The Bombing of Hiroshima, Part 1 - Photographing the incomprehensible, from the sky. | by Patrick Witty
Field of View: The Bombing of Hiroshima, Part 2 - Photographing the incomprehensible, from the ground. | by Patrick Witty
Field of View: The Bombing of Nagasaki, Part One - On August 9, 1945, Charles Levy captured an iconic photo with his own camera because the official cameraman … | by Patrick Witty
Albuquerque Journal: Santa Fe's Monroe Gallery presents 'Good Trouble' taking a look at the impact of activists | Kathaleen Roberts
Blind: Hiroshima, Mon Amour - In Hiroshima Graph: Everlasting Flow, Yoshikatsu Fujii tells the story of his grandmother, a survivor of the catastrophe | by Iris Mandret
Lens Culture: Articles of Virtu | photographs by Bryan Birks
Text by Magali Duzant
The Guardian: ‘There’s nothing quite like them’: Saul Leiter’s photos and paintings
Blind: W. Eugene Smith and the Largest Stories of his Career explored in two books by Sam Stephenson | by Robert E. Gerhardt
Leica Camera Blog: Woven Fabric: Using a weaving technique, photo artist Sabine Wild produces amazing analogue structures for her digital images.
Lenscratch: Photographers on Photographers: Semaj Campbell in conversation with John Henry
The Guardian: Nomads of the sea: stateless Bajau face up to a future on land | Words and photographs by Claudio Sieber
NY Times: I Wanted to Capture the Fleeting Magic of a Summer at Camp in Photographs | Photos and text Josephine Sittenfeld
Lenscratch: Zachary Kaufman in Conversation With Matt Eich
Aperture: Japan’s Unparalleled History of Photography in Print | by Lena Fritsch
Creative Boom: Photographer Jeff Rothstein on taking inspiration from New York City's aliveness | by Olivia Atkins
Print: The Daily Heller: A Lost Photographer of the Creative Revolution
ASX: Robert Frank Interviewed at Wellesley College (1977)
PetaPixel: Photo Agencies Publish Open Letter Demanding AI Copyright Protection | by Matt Growcoot
BJP: ‘I could have been one of these girls’: Ana María Arévalo Gosen Documenting Venezuela’s teenage pregnancy crisis | by Philippa Kelly
The Guardian: California dreamin’: scenes of Black joy and leisure in the Jim Crow era
Culture, Art and Design
RV/Tailor park. Crescent City, California. 20 October 2012 Photo Robert Gumpert
Le Monde: Global warming is challenging France's regional and cultural identity | by Matthieu Roar
Financial Times: Inside the world’s oldest lithography store, printer to Giorgio de Chirico and Cy Twombly | by Ana Vukadin
Rolling Stone: Neil Young’s Lost Album ‘Chrome Dreams’: Track by Track | Andy Greene
The Blue Moment: The grain of sound - The Blind Boys of Alabama’s new release | by Richard Williams
Hyperallergic: The Candid Visual Storytelling of Deb JJ Lee | Rhea Nayyar
The Guardian: ‘It’s already way beyond what humans can do’: will AI wipe out architects? | by Oliver Wainwright
LA Times: How the 'Dark Winds' Season 2 cast got Navajo culture right | by George R. Joe (“Dark Winds” Navajo cultural advisor)
The Hollywood Reporter: Why ‘Reservation Dogs’ Director Danis Goulet Portrayed Reservation Schools Like a “Horror Movie” | by Abbey White
New City: So Near and Yet So Far: A Review of “Enduring Ties, Resilience and Longing in Cuba” | by Susan Aurinko
Detroit News: Rodriguez, subject of Oscar-winning doc "Searching for Sugarman," dies at 81 | by Louis Agullar
The Guardian: Robbie Robertson obituary | by Richard Williams
NY Times: After a Flood, Saving Appalachia’s History Piece by Piece | by Remy Tumin
It’s Nice That: Hussein Shikha celebrates the rich history of Iraqi carpets | by Olivia Hingley
El País: Puerto Rico: The origin, evolution and future of reggaeton | by Pablo De Llano
The New Yorker: The First Magician on the Vegas Strip | by Susan Orlean
Artsy: Why “Quiet Luxury” Is Taking Over Painting, Too | by Charlotte Jansen
Hyperallergic: The Black History of the Montgomery Brawl Folding Chair | by Rhea Nayyar
The Guardian: Why are Black rappers aligning themselves with the right? | by Tayo Bero
Other Stuff
The New Yorker: What the Webb Space Telescope Will Show Us Next | by David W. Brown
The Appalachian Voice: Chasing the Light of Bioluminescence | by Matt Dhillon
Venture Beat: OpenAI launches web crawling GPTBot, sparking blocking effort by website owners and creators
ARS Techica: AI researchers claim 93% accuracy in detecting keystrokes over Zoom audio | by Kevin Purdy
The Delacorte Review: Beirut, at Sunset | by Tamara Shade
Washington Post: Man returns to Denmark after traveling to every country without flying | by Kyle Melnick
Washington Post: How 1st Amendment auditors are changing policing, helped by YouTube | by Robert Klemko
PetaPixel: Scientists Explain Cosmic ‘Question Mark’ That Puzzled the Internet | by Jeremy Gray
Nautilus: Have We Gotten Dark Matter All Wrong? | by Paul M. Sutter
Nautilus: The Quirky Muon Just Might Spur a Physics Breakthrough—Again | by Jennifer Ouellette
Design Boom: MIT’s Lab Uses the Power of the Ocean to Grow Islands | by Christina Petridou
Print: Typotheque’s Peter Bil’ak on How Font Foundries Can Keep Centuries-Old Languages Alive | by Angela Riechers
Washington Post: Supreme Court pauses Purdue Pharma settlement plan worth billions | by David Ovalle
SF Standard: People Are Having Sex in Robotaxis. Nobody Is Talking About It | by Liz Lindqwuster
Labor
NY Times: Striking Actors Are Turning to Cameo for Extra Cash | by Perri Ormont Blumberg
Vulture: VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at Marvel for the First Time | by Chris Lee
Civil Eats: Threatened by Climate Change, Food Chain Workers Demand Labor Protections | by Grey Moran
The Guardian: Amazon starting to track and penalize workers who work from home too much | by Kari Paul
NY Times: Move or Quit: Grindr Dictates New Office Rules Amid Union Drive | by Emma Goldberg
Headbanging Headlines (The Clarence Thomas Special Edition):
Late night on bail bond row across the street from the San Francisco Jail and courts. 1986 Photo: Robert Gumpert
NYT: Clarence Thomas gave elite group 'unusual' access
ABC News: New report says Justice Clarence Thomas accepted payments from GOP megadonor
Washington Post: Wife of Justice Clarence Thomas received thousands in hidden payments
ProPublica: Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
BBC: Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas defends luxury trips
Yahoo News: Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as key in plan to overturn 2020 election, emails show
Business Insider: Clarence Thomas purchased his luxury RV with the help of a wealthy former healthcare executive
Rolling Stone: Investigation Uncovers More of Clarence Thomas’ Undisclosed Freebies from Wealthy Pals
NBC Sports: Clarence Thomas received a Super Bowl ring from Jerry Jones
The Hill: The Supreme Court’s excuses for ethics violations insult our intelligence
ProPublica: The Other Billionaires Who Helped Clarence Thomas Live a Luxe Life
And too many more to list …
Headbanging Headlines
The Guardian: Videos denying climate science approved by Florida as state curriculum
Hoodline: San Francisco Doom Loop Tour Sold Out
Podcast
Desert Island Discs: Shirley Collins, folk singer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne
BBC The Food Chain: The Little Italy story
Distillations: Science History Institute: The Mothers of Gynecology - US maternal mortality rate is abysmal, and over the past five years it’s gotten worse. There are huge racial disparities … | Host: Alexis Pedrick Senior Producer: Mariel Carr Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez Associate Producer: Padmini Raghunath Audio Engineer: Jonathan Pfeffer “Innate Theme” composed by Jonathan Pfeffer. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions.
Exposed Negative: S2 #17 - Wet Plate: Finding and funding the personal project w/ Jack Lowe
Books
Lit Hub: Divine Heists, Deep-Sea Discoveries, and Climate Utopias: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books | by Natalie Zutter
Print: 10 of the Best Independent Magazines Right Now | by Steven Watson
Wallpaper: Will Vogt’s photo book ‘These Americans’ is a deep dive into a world of privilege and excess, spanning 1969 to 1996 | by Sophie Gladstone
Social Issues
SF Chronicle: S.F. neighborhood lashes out at housing development planned for de facto ‘town square’ | by J.K. Dineen
ProPublica: EPA Approved Chevron Fuel Ingredient With Sky-High Cancer Risk | by Sharon Lerner
The Guardian: Forget Instagram influencers, Sinéad O’Connor showed mental illness as it truly is | by Hannah Jane Parkinson
Mission Local: SF inmates sue in federal court for access to sunlight in jail | by Elena Balakrishnan
Huck: How housing segregation continues to shape London for the worse | by Philippa Kelly
London Review of Books: False Dichotomies | by Rebekah Diski
Washington Post: Louisiana's sea level rises, taking swamps and hurricane protection with it | by Chris Mooney, Zoeann Murphy, Ricky Carioti, John Muyskens
The Guardian: Legionella discovery forces asylum seekers off Bibby Stockholm days after arrival | by Rajeev Syal and Diane Taylor
Washington Post: Leading Israel scholars invoke ‘apartheid’ in critique of status quo | by Ishaan Tharoor
NY Times: Why an Unremarkable Racist Enjoyed the Backing of Billionaires | by Jamelle Bouie
Division Street
Tink Zorn, 40. Unhoused since 2020 in San Francisco at her encampment on the meridian at Potrero between Alameda and Division Streets. 07 August 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
WHAT DO YOUR PROCESSIONS MEAN TO YOU? “We’re all energy and matter, right? I don’t know how many lives I’ve lived or how many I will live but for some reason I feel like, …., great love from different stories that somehow find their way to me in the things that surround me. Especially being away from my family, I mean, your things hold memories, hold you here. When you have nothing but your things and then that’s taken from you, you truly have nothing.”
BEING A WOMAN ON THE STREETS: “Unfortunately I’ve been raped, more than once here in the City. And I’ve been in an abusive relationship. Lucky I have made a few close friends, not many, but one or two that I’m really blessed to have in my life because on my own I wondered. I would just walk until until I was so exhausted that I would collapse. I would try and choose somewhere public, even if it was only twenty minute intervals of sleep before they would be like “get off the sidewalk” or whatever.”
”Having a friend with me, and we pair up and stay together, we feel safer. Strength in numbers, for sure.”
Tent mates Tink Zorn, 40, unhoused since 2020 in San Francisco, and Cathy Pennington, 34, unhoused for about 13 years. Their encampment is on the meridian at Potrero between Alameda and Division Streets. 07 August 2023. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Community
Tink: “Honestly I am differently blessed to have experienced homelessness. I know that sounds bazaar but I have met some of the most honorable, genuinely brilliant and spiritual beings that I think exist in this walk of life.”
”If I had not be on the streets and been in this situation I never would have interacted, I wouldn’t have sat down and had the conversations I’ve had, the experiences I’ve had. You know there is honor among thieves. It’s bazaar, but probably there is more honor among thieves than those people that follow the rules and don’t steal, don’t do drugs.”
”They’re what society would deem normal and acceptable and I’ve lived my whole life surrounded by people like that, and I’m not saying I don’t know a lot of amazing people, but I’m just pleasantly surprised. [Here are] very self sacrificing people, even when they have nothing, they give you what little they have.”
Cathy: “I would differently say yes, there is community. I can’t say I’ve made friends here, I’ve made family here. And the ones that I do call friends, is probably some of the closest I have. Back home I didn’t have friends as close as the ones I have now.”
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
31 July - 06 August 2023
Miner in a bar after his shift in the mine. Lusaka, Zambia - 1991. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Photography
Blind: Laurent Ballesta: Son of the Sea | by Jonas Cuénin
i-D: How Carrie Mae Weems sees herself | by Ashley Tyner
Huck: Photographer John Bolloten was granted rare access to Elita, pro-nationalist ultras supporting Dinamo Tbilisi, to document a group typically closed off to outsiders. | by Isaac Musk
Hyperallergic: A Trove of Rarely Seen Photographs of Revolutionary Black Women | by Elaine Velie
In Sight: Meet this year’s Women Photograph grantees | by Kenneth Dickerman
Fraenkel Exhibitions: Richard Misrach - New Old Pictures New New Pictures
Blind: This summer, Photo Élysée in Lausanne spotlights women. Committed feminist photographers Laia Abril and Debi Cornwall show us what women have to say about the world | by Iris Mandret
Lenscratch: Photographers on Photographers: Suzannet T. White in Conversation with Roger Ballen
Lens Culture: Anastasia Samoylova - Image Cities interviewed by Gregory Eddi Jones
Metal: Tim Eastman - Quality over Quantity | Words Zach Lee
The Guardian: ‘I learn a lot from these people’: Anton Corbijn photographs artists | by Mee-Lai Stone
Blind: Bud Lee and Newark during the Long, Hot Summer of 1967 | by Robert E. Gerhardt
Creative Review: Tori Ferenc on telling complex stories through her portraits | by Rebecca Fulleylove
NY Times: Scenes From a City That Only Hands Out Tickets for Using Fentanyl | Photos: Jordan Gale, Text: Jan Hoffman
Menschphoto: Barbara Mensch - South Street 1980-1985
BJP: ‘Motivated by the desire to document real people’: Reflections on the work of Tish Murtha | by Philippa Kelly
The Leica Camera Blog: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham - Displace By The M23
Ignorant: In Conversation With Photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz: On The Arctic And The Interconnectedness Of Our World | by Devid Gualandris
Blind: Slavery, at Home - Shortly after moving to Beirut, Lebanon, photographer Aline Deschamps met women who were enslaved. | by Gaia Squarci
Lenscratch: Photographers on Photographers: Drew Leventhal in Conversation with Carolyn Drake | by Drew Leventhal
Aperture: Reagan Louie on Surviving the American Dream | Interviewed by Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander
Culture, Art and Design
Creative Boom: A step-by-step guide on deleting your social media accounts
Hyperallergic: Can AI Help Find the Children of Argentina’s Desaparecidos? | by Carolina Drake
Dazed: UFOria: how aliens are fuelling a new and uncharted era of disinformation | TextGünseli Yalcinkaya
The New Yorker: A New Italian Restaurant Pairs Serious Cooking with a Sense of Humor | by Helen Rosner
Hyperallergic: Ruins of Ancient Roman Theater Discovered During Dig for New Hotel | Rhea Nayyar
NY Times: Barbie Hoax Targets Mattel and Fools Some News Outlets | by Livia Albeck-Ripka and Orlando Mayorquin
Creative Boom: Shotaro Kitada creates a serious yet jokey reality in his paper sculpture artworks | by Dom Carter
Print: My Favorite Things: The Olfactory Never Sleeps | by Tom Guarriello
Huck: ‘A City For Dreamers:’ Celebrating a Century of Art in New York | by Miss Rosen
The Guardian: Mr Spock belting out showtunes? How Star Trek became a fizzy, frantic romp | by Graeme Virtue
El País: Excessive muscles, padded butts and other unattainable standards: How the ‘Wonderbra culture’ now affects men | by Jaime Lorite
Dawn: Paternity leave is feminist | by Maheer Irshad
Five Things, Saturday, August 5th from Martin Colyer
NY Times: Russia Takes Its Ukraine Information War Into Video Games | by Steven Lee Myers and Kellen Browning
Other Stuff
Creative Boom: Rookie PR mistakes to avoid when trying to get press coverage | by Katy Cowan
Tech Crunch: How to change back to the old Twitter app icon on iOS | by Amanda Silberling
Reuters: Four Nigerians, rescued in Brazil, survived 14 days on a ship's rudder | Steven Grattan
El País: In jail with Pablo López Alavez, 13 years behind bars in Mexico for a crime he did not commit | by Alejandro Santo Cid
Print: News From a Changing Planet: Saving Animals and the Ocean Saves Us | by Tatiana Schlossberg
The Guardian: Billionaires yearn for a life free of human contact – and they are imposing this on the rest of us | by Emma Beddington
The Verge: Google can now alert you when your private contact info appears online | by Emma Roth
TPM: Jeff Clark’s Insurrection Act Remark Was Even Worse Than It Sounds | by Josh Kovensky
Jacobin: Rosa Luxemburg Anticipated the Destructive Impact of Capitalist Globalization | by Peter Hudis
Labor
PetaPixel: Adobe Staff Worry Their AI Could Kill the Jobs of Their Own Customers | Jaron Schneider
Texas Observer: The “Death Star” Bill is About Kneecapping Democracy in Texas | by Gus Bova
NY Times: Deep Inside Mountains, Work Is Getting Much More Dangerous | by Drew A. Harris
Stansbury Forum: A Sister’s Murder Sparks Action - Tradeswomen Response to Workplace Violence | by Molly Martin
Headbanging Headlines:
The Guardian: Phoenix’s record streak of temperatures above 110F ends after 31 days
The Guardian: California: bear soaks in hot tub to beat the heat
Design Boom: formula E team builds first racing car made entirely of discarded electronics, vapes & phones
CNN: Chinese zoo denies its sun bears are people in costume
PetaPixel: Asian MIT Student Asks AI for a Pro Headshot, Gets Turned White
Podcast
Magnum: Cristina de Middel shares a tip on where to find ideas for your next photography project from her home in Salvador, Brazil. (video)
The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly: Episode 101: Elizabeth Winkler, journalist and critic on Shakespeare authorship
The Bitter Southerner: Immigrant Spaghetti | by Farhan Mustafa
A Small Voice: #210 - Ben Smith talks with Moises Saman
Books
PhotoBook Journal: David Bernstein – Walker’s Vein | by Steve Harp
Creative Review: The history of optical illusions in graphic design | by Daniel Milroy Maher
the Blue moment: Richard Williams’ Summer books 1: Henry Threadgill
Social Issues
JSTOR Daily: When San Francisco Feminists Rated Mexican Abortions - The California activists played the role of a health agency to ensure women received safe and competent health care in Mexican clinics. | by H.M.A. Leow
The Saskatoon Star Phoenix: Forced drug treatment not effective: Saskatoon police chief | by Thia James
NY Times: Scenes From a City That Only Hands Out Tickets for Using Fentanyl | Photos: Jordan Gale, Text: Jan Hoffman
Aeon: Thousands of Indigenous children suffered and died in residential ‘schools’ around the world. Their stories must be heard | by Steve Minton, edited by Cameron Allan McKean
Mississippi Today: Six Rankin officers plead guilty to torturing two Black men | by Brian Howey, Nate Rosenfield and Jerry Mitchell
The Guardian: ‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcohol | by Wilfred Chan
The Washington Post: The Montana youth behind a historic climate lawsuit | by Kate Selig
ZD Net: Google's new settings let you remove your private info from search results. Here's how | byLance Whitney
Locked and Found
Alison Brown. Expecting in the next month her 7th child, a girl named Seven. 11 March 2016: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ2. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Grace Jessica Clinton. 9 Sept 2016: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ 2. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Jimmy Heard, kitchen worker. 11 May 2019: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ 4. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Reno Ramos. 15 June 2019: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ 4: Photo: Robert Gumpert
Division Street
With plans announced to “evict” the RVs, Coalition Director Jennifer Friedenbach said: “We would get folks into housing and safe parking before they restrict parking.” RV line Winston Dr. near Lake Merced along the edge of SF State. 8 December 2019: San Francisco, CA. Photo: Robert Gumpert
SF Chronicle: RVs have flooded this quiet SF neighborhood. Now, they may get displaced | by Aldo Toledo
NY Times: Homeless Camps Are Being Cleared in California. What Happens Next? | by Livia Albeck-Ripka
LA Times: 'Selling Sunset's' Tarek and Heater El Moussa evicting rent-controlled tenants | by Liam Dillon
Deadline: HGTV Personality Tarek El Moussa Denies He’s Evicting North Hollywood Tenants To Build New Complex: “My Intentions Are To Do Good” | by Lynette Rice
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
24 July - 30 July 2023
Najee Barrow. 12 Sept 2017: San Bruno, CA. SF CJ 5. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Photography
The Guardian: ‘No poor person decides how they get photographed’ | by Guy Lane
Blind: The Forgotten Images of the Spanish Civil War - The Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier features the first exhibition in France of photographs by the Spanish Civil War artist-photographer Antoni Campañà, which had been hidden away for years in two mysterious red boxes. | by Michaël Naulin
LFI: Community
Magnum: Werner Bischof - The Korean War: Behind the Battlefront
BJP: Granta’s photo editor on finding image-text harmony | by Izabela Radwanska Zhang
The New Yorker: The photojournalist Bud Lee captured the riots of 1967 and the human cost of the brutal police crackdown. | by M. Aa. Adnan
Aperture: Jade Thiraswas’s Sensitive Chronicle of Pride and Mourning in the American South | by Jordan Amirkhani
Ignant: In Conversation: With Photography and Life, Joe Greer Takes the Long View | by Anna Dorothea Ker
AnOther: Emmanuel Cole’s Photographs Capture the Beating Heart of London | by George Pistachio
Culture, Art and Design
Creative Boom: Five of the best Barbie-inspired marketing campaigns | by Ben Veal
Design Boom: barbie mania, or how warner bros' creative marketing campaign painted the whole world pink - THIS BARBIE IS…TRYING TOO HARD? | by Matthew Burgos
El País: Pink is political: How ‘Barbie’ blends activism, entertainment, and business as usual | by Noah Benalal
The Guardian: How did Barbie do it? Warner’s head of marketing on creating a ‘pink movement’ | by Lois Beckett
Print: Poor Man’s Feast: On Anxiety and the Search for an Anchor (Regarding The Bear) | by Elisa Altman
Creative Boom: Is blogging still relevant? Here's how to promote yourself online in 2023 | by Ben Veal
Creative Boom: 'Art is a way of life': Illustrator Hanyu Mu on leaving an emotional mark on her audience | by Dom Carter
McSweeney’s: We Promise Out STEM Toys Will Never Teach Your Child the Humanities | by Donovan Tang
Print: It’s Time to Rethink ‘Good Vibes Only’ | by Liz Gumbinner
Print: ‘Semiotics on the Street’ Looks for Connections in Modern Symbols Around the World
JSTOR Daily: Making Music Male How did record collecting and stereophile culture come to exclude women as consumers and experts? | by Ashawnta Jackson
It’s Nice That: What do you do when a project ends? We explore creative grief and how to deal with it | Words Danielle Pender, Illustration Anny Peng
McSweeney’s: Take a Break From Earth’s Heat and Come Cool Off in Hell | by Luke Strathmann
Other Stuff
Washington Post: Scientists detect sign that a crucial ocean current is near collapse | by Sarah Kaplan
The Guardian: We can’t afford to be climate doomers | by Rebecca Solnit
The Guardian: Florida ocean records ‘unprecedented’ temperatures similar to a hot tub | by Dani Anguiano and agencies
Washington Post: Where the most U.S. residents bake because of concrete and lack of trees | by Andrea Salcedo
Reuters: Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints | by Steve Stecklow and Norihiko Shirouzu
Science History Institute: In the Shadow of Oppenheimer | by Joshua Wheeler, Reto Sterchi
LA Times/De Los: Was the Oppenheimer test site unpopulated? | by Cat Cardenas
Washington Post: In court, Tulsa race-massacre descendants just can’t win | by Karen Attiah
Labor
ProPoblica: Immigration Death on a Dairy Farm When an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy was run over on … | by Melissa Sanchez and Maryam Jameel
Deadline: Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Stars Hit Times Square Rally – From Fraser, Chastain, Cranston & Pierce To Slater, Wong, Hennessy, Shannon, Buscemi & More | by Valerie Complex, Sean Piccoli
Deadline: Latest in Labor
The Guardian: US labor department condemns surge in child labor after teen dies on the job | by Michael Sainato
Headbanging Headlines:
Twitter/X: A Tesla was in a junkyard for three weeks. Then it burst
into flames.
Podcast
Texas Labor Podcast: The state of the labor movement with Peter Olney
YouTube: Sinead O’Connor was booed at a Bob Dylan tribute concert at Madison Square Garden. When Kris Kristofferson came out and told her “don’t let the bastards get you down”, she changed her planned song and attempted to sing her version of ‘War’.
Books
Creative Boom: 'Embrace rejection': Graham Johnson on his book of failed ideas and how to cope with knockback | by Dom Carter
The Guardian: Arthur children’s book faces potential Florida ban over claim it ‘damaged souls’ | BY Maya Lang
Social Issues
AP News: Two teachers called out far-right activities at their German school. Then they had to leave town. | by Kirsten Grieshaber
LA Times: ‘I can’t die like this’: Video shows trans man beaten by deputy during stop | by Keri Blakinger
SF Chronicle: Bay Area nonprofit returns 43 acres to femal-led Indigenous land trust | by Jessica Flores
HuffPost: Italy Is Removing Lesbian Moms' Names From Their Children's Birth Certificates | by Sebastian Murdock
Washington Post: Trump’s GOP rivals open door to cutting Social Security for younger people | by Jeff Stein
NY Times: Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification | by Aatish Bhatia, Claire Cain Miller and Josh Katz
Dezeen: UN Human Rights Council experts "express alarm" over imminent executions connected to Neom | by Tom Ravenscroft
Print: Hey Jane Takes Abortion Care from Taboo Talk to a Powerful Billboard Campaign in Illinois | by Charlotte Beach
Washington Post: Dreams and Daily Seas | by Samantha Schmidt, Paulina Villegas and Hannah Dormido
Searchlight New Mexico: My nuclear family | by Alicia Inez Guzmán
ProPublica: They Needed Treatment. Mississippi Threw Them in Jail Without Charges. | Co-published with Mississippi Today , Sun Herald , Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal and The Guardian
Locked and Found
LaSonya Wells. 26 Feb 2016: San Francisco, CA. CJ 2. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Chaka Cobb. 4 March 2016: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ 2. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Bryan Sylester. 5 October 2019: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ4. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Juan Prado. 9 March 2019: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ 4. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Paul Frazier. 5 October 2019: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ4. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Alvarado Amaya. 10 August 2019: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ 4. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Division Street
LA Times: Extreme heat in California is dangerous for homeless people living outside | by Ruben Vives, Akiya Dillon, Photos: Iran Khan
SF Chronicle: Court rules S.F. towing policy illegal | by Bob Egelko
LA Times: Opinion: Homeless, when you just can’t afford the rent | by Robert Karron
Huck: The Homeless Couple Who Fell in Love in the Shadow of Silicon Valley | by Josh Jones - Photography by Niall O'Brien
Mission Local: SF says drug users turn down services. But what’s on offer? | by Griffin Jones
Voice of San Diego: 4 Common Assumptions About Homelessness and What the Data Says About Them | by Will Huntsberry
SF Chronicle: These 2 California cities have higher rates of homelessness than SF | by Mallory Moench
LA Times: Anchorage mayor may fly homeless people to L.A. for the winter | by Ruben Vives
The Guardian: The use of the term unhoused has grown exponentially in the last few years, and those who have adopted it say it emphasizes a lack of affordable housing | by Amanda Abrams
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
17 July - 23 July 2023
7 September 2019: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ 4: Dr. Charles Thompson.
Photography
The Guardian: Giles Duley - The One Armed Chef, Giles Duley: ‘Cooking was the way I found peace’ | by Tim Adams
Huck (from 2017): These photographers are challenging how we think about prison | by Pete Brook
The New Yorker: Erinn Springer’s “Dormant Season” pays tribute to a patch of prairie that her family has called home for generations. | by Casey Cep
Blind: Irving Penn: Master Portraitist Between Light and Shadow | by Nathalie Dassa
i-D: The Ghanaian publication tracing the landscape of contemporary African art | Jenna Mahale
i-D: Bruce Davidson photographed the most important moments of the 20th century | Miss Rosen
Polka: LES EXPOS ET FESTIVALS À NE PAS MANQUER CET ÉTÉ! | by Thaïs Jacquet
Lenscratch: Isolationism in Photography: Marcia Glover - The Air is Different | by Kassandra Eller
Lenscratch: Isolationism in Photography: Natalie Goulet: Identity Mapping
i-D: Photographing the complicated relationship between humans and nature | Millen Brown-Ewens
BJP: ‘We need to stop the bullshit’: Mathieu Asselin’s exhausted landscapes | by Alex Daniel
Washington Post: ‘The Transition State’: Looking at protest movements in five countries | by Kenneth Dickerman
Truth In Photography: Magnum photographers Olivia Arthur, Matt Black, Carolyn Drake, Moises Saman, Cristina García Rodero, Alex Webb, and Martin Parr have documented transgender identity across the world. Below are their different viewpoints that illuminate the lives of transgender people and LGBTQIA+ activism.
Truth In Photography: The Mercilessness of the Sea - Mikel Hørlyck interview and photographs
NY Times: Edward Kaprov’s wet-plate technique is producing some of the most memorable and timeless photographs of the war in Ukraine close up. | Carlotta Gall
The Guardian: The Scottish villagers who defied Donald Trump | by Sarah Gilbert
Aperture: The Quest to Protect the Father of Ivorian Photography | by Tiana Reid
Blind: The Portrait(s) Parade in Vichy
Magnum: Ian Berry - Water: Source of Life
Aperture: How Gina Osterloh’s Photographs Flirt with the Limits of Recognition | by Phoebe Chen
Aperture: An Artist’s Collages about Memory and Migration | by Amitava Kumar
Aperture: The Photographer Searching for Freedom in Palestine | by Will Matsuda
Culture, Art and Design
The Guardian: After the floods, the future looks bright: truck art in Pakistan | by Sanam Maher in Sindh and Liz Ford. Photographs by Zoral Khurram Naik
It’s Nice That: “Simple, perfect”: The 50 best book covers of 2022, according to AIGA | by Liz Gorny
Dezeen: Robots should be "good neighbours and good citizens" says Madeline Gannon | by Cajsa Carlson
It’s Nice That: Malaika Francique peers into her family photo album to inspire posters around Caribbean history | by Yaya Azariah Clarke
High Country News: Horse girls: The wild and fearless - An author reflects on an encounter in Wyoming’s Red Desert and motherhood. | by Nina McConigley
Print: Villains en Vogue: How Karl Lagerfeld’s Dark Origins Reveal the Influence of Fascism on Fashion | by Isabella Segalovich
Creative Boom: No Ones Likes Us: Jéròme Favre’s photographs that take a second look at Millwall football fans | by Tom May
Forbes: Seaweed As Art At The New Bedford Whaling Museum | by Alexandra Bregman
Washington Post: There’s a lot going on behind the curtain in this portrait by Titian | by
JSTOR Daily: Delts Don’t Lie - Renaissance artists routinely used men as models for their depictions of female subjects, yet only the musculatures of Michelangelo tell that story. | by Ellie Rose Mattoon
El País: Why Woody Guthrie’s guitar was a killer of fascists | by Fernando Navarro
Other Stuff
Longreads: The Greatest Hospitality Story Ever | by Adam Reiner
The New Yorker: Haiti Held Hostage | by Jon Lee Anderson
Huck: THE DEVASTATING IMPACT OF DONALD TRUMP’S SCOTTISH GOLF COURSES - Alicia Bruce photographs | by Isaac Muk
Time: How John Fetterman Came Out of the Darkness | by Molly Ball
The Japan Times: In Japan, plenty of inheritances, but no one to claim them | by Alex K.T. Martin
Psyche: What happens to the brain during consciousness-ending meditation? | by Shayla Love, edited by Christian Jarrett
Labor
The Nation: What Does It Take to Win a Strike? | reviewed by David Bacon
NY Times: ‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s Battle With A.I. | by Emma Goldberg
SF Chronicle: Anchor Brewing workers want to buy SF company to keep it open | by Michael Cabanatuan
The Hollywood Reporter: Anonymous Strike Diary: SAG Glams Up the Picket Line — “Chanting Even Came Back”
Civil Eats: Fishermen Want to Break up a Dungeness Crab Monopoly | by Ron Knox
Headbanging Headlines:
The Guardian: ‘Your heart races a bit’: US weather man threatened with death for mentioning climate crisis
Washington Post: The heat index reached 152 degrees in the Middle East — nearly at the limit for human survival
Haaretz: Israeli Antiquities Are Stranded at Trump's Florida Estate as Authorities Fail to Retrieve Them
Podcast
The Bitter Southerners: Episode 11: The Elusive Roots of Rosin Potatoes — Reading & Interview With Author Caroline Hatchett
Ezra Klein Show: What We Learned From the Deepest Look at Homelessness in Decades
Books
The Nation: What Does It Take to Win a Strike? | reviewed by David Bacon
Social Issues
NY Times: How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World | by Lauren Leatherby
NY Times: As Climate Shocks Multiply, Designers Seek Holy Grail: Disaster-Proof Homes | by Christopher Flavelle
Houston Chronicle: Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, records say | by Benjamin Wermund
The New Yorker: How Gretchen Whitmer Made Michigan a Democratic Stronghold | by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
LA Times: L.A. County courts to severely limit use of cash bail | by James Queally
ProPublica: (Co-published with High Country News) In Arizona Water Ruling, the Hopi Tribe Sees Limits on Its Future | by Umar Farooq
Talking Points Memo: Neo-Nazis Surged Into Central Florida And Found A Tough-Talking Sheriff Who’s Determined To Take Them Down | by Hunter Walker
ProPublica: How School Board Meetings Became Flashpoints for Anger and Chaos | by Nicole Carr and Lucas Waldron
NY Times: Survey of 30 U.S. Cities Shows Nearly 10 Percent Drop in Homicides in 2023 | by Tim Arango
Prospect Magazine: The alarming Americanisation of British prisons | by Bill Keller
Capital B: Black Mayor Sues Newbern, Alabama, Officials | by Aallyah Wright
The Independent: Australian travel firm awarded £1.6bn contract for asylum barges and accommodation | by Lizzie Dearden
SF Public Press: Military-Style Drug War in Tenderloin Sparks Overdose Fears | by Sylvie Sturm
Take a Picture, Tell a Story:
For the next couple of weeks the photos I post on “7 Days” will be from the San Francisco County Jail project, “Locked and Found”. In 2006 the then Sheriff of San Francisco asked me to document the last 3 months of County Jail 3, then the oldest county jail in the state.
During those 3 months I found people liked to tell me stories. When after 3 months the old jail was closed, I asked the Sheriff to let me do a new project - “Take a Picture, Tell a Story” - in all SF jails. I got permission for 1 year, which was then renewed every year until the end of 2019.
At some point in the early years the prisoners decided “Locked and Found” was a better title and “Take a Picture, Tell a Story” became an umbrella name for a number of projects I was doing that use images with first person story telling.
Sheriff Hennessey retired in 2012. The years between 2012 and 2019 saw the department have 2 Sheriffs each servicing two different times.
Even before 2012 the general atmosphere in the jails had been changing but Michael Hennessey was not only progressive, he was good at the administrative aspects of running an institution.
After 2012 deputies became openly “lock them up, through away the key”, and distrust and hostility towards my presence increased as did attempts to have me removed.
The “new” Sheriffs became increasingly weak - for different reasons but with the same result within the jail - until in November of 2019 when my pass was withdrawn with immediate effect.
Since the end of 2019 there has been a pandemic, jail closings, understaffing in the jail while deputies are detailed to the streets for the Mayor’s “War on Drugs”, and I moved on to the “Division Street” and book.
It is had to overstate what the thirteen and half years I spent in the jail taught me about photography, listening, working with people, and about institutions.
For several reasons I have, after almost 4 years, found thinking about the project possible again. I don’t know if I will add, from the archive, more portraits and stories to the “Locked and Found” section on this site, time will tell. In the meantime I’ll post a few portraits over the next 2-3 weeks.
18 March 2016: San Francisco, CA SF CJ2: Tameika Renee Smith, Poet
8 April 2016: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ2: Jessica Taylor.
6 April 2016: San Francsico, CA. SF CJ 2: Cassandra Williams
5 August 2016: San Francisco, CA. SF CJ2: Serenity Romero
See images 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
10 July - 16 July 2023
Photography
Inverness, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2023
BBC: Ansel Adams: Eight of the most iconic photos of the American West | by Cath Pound
Howard Greenberg Gallery: Bruce Davidson - The Way Back June 23 - September 16
LFI: Jaroslav Kučera: Calm Before the Storm and his website
i-D: 100 years of genre-defining Japanese photography magazines - A glorious new tome shows how magazines in Japan served as laboratories of radical ideas | by Alessandro Merola
i-D: Photographing high school graduation on Hawaiʻi - Akasha Rabut captures the unique island flair of Hawaiian commencement ceremonies | by Erica Escalante
Aperture: The Photographers Who Captured Love and Longing
An exhibition at the International Center of Photography offers an expansive take on how images can be used to create, sustain, and destroy intimacy | by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Aperture: An Asian American Family’s Public History and Private Rituals - In his photographs, Jarod Lew asks his family to reenact scenes from everyday life, invoking stories that wrestle with the tensions between control and care | by Simon Han
Phmuseum: Transient Ties | by Michaela Nagyidaiová
Eiji Ohashi: Roadside Lights I
Eiji Ohashi: Identity as Uygur
The Guardian: A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography review – exhilarating, dynamic, profound | by Laura Cumming
The Guardian: Brothels, bartenders and film stars: Eve Arnold’s women | by Mee-Lai Stone
Civil Eats: A Cooperative Farm’s Long Path to Liberation for Farmworkers | by David Bacon
Lens Culture: Homage | Photomontage and text by Cornelia Hediger With comments by Deborah Klochko and Azu Nwagbogu
Blind: In Arles, Jacques Léonard’s Snapshots | by Sophie Bernard
LFI: Look Me in the Eyes
Field of View: The Beginning of the End of the World | by Patrick Witty
Culture, Art and Design
The Tennessee Grill. Taraval St and 21st and 22nd avenues. Parkside district San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2023
The Art Newspaper: Carrie Mae Weems: the photographer recreating and reframing famous historical moments | Interviewed by Louisa Buck
The Amsterdam News: New museum in Alabama tells history of last known slave ship to US and its survivors | by The AP
Print: Find “Your Type” in This Washington Post Interactive Story | by Kim Tidwell
Washington Post: What’s your type? Try these tests to pick the perfect font for you. | by By Emma Kumer, Geoffrey A. Fowler and Leslie Shapiro
McSweeney’s: Your OBGYN’s Pain Scale: An interpretive Guide | by Karen Allen
Washington Post: Opinion Photos don’t always tell the whole truth. Is that a bad thing? | by Daniel Etter
The Guardian: ‘A crisis unlike any other’: famed LA theater cancels upcoming season amid financial woes | by Gloria Qladipo
Designboom: UAE's Africa Institute cancels David Adjaye-designed campus in Sharjah | by Myrto Katsikopoulou
The Atlantic: A Year of Amazing Images From the James Webb Space Telescope | by Alan Taylor
The Blue Moment: Under the same sky | Richard Williams
L.A. Taco: El Sereno's Guerrilla Gardeners Sow Native Plants To Resist Gentrification In Developer-Contested Land | Daniel Thalkar
The Blue Moment: Northern Soul at the Albert Hall | Richard Williams
Other Stuff
Propublica: Right-Wing Websites Scam Loyal Followers With Phony Celebrity Pitches | by Craig Silverman
NY Times: The Afterlife of Forlorn Office Furniture | by Stefanos Chen
NPR: The Anthropocene began in 1950s, scientists say
Washington Post: NASA releases spectacular image to celebrate James Webb Space Telescope | by Joel Achenbach
NY Times: To Help Cool a Hot Planet, the Whitest of White Coats | by Cara Buckley
Labor
UAW Local 259 member. Service Department, Potamkin Cadillac. New York City 1982. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1982
Mission Local: Last call: Anchor Brewing bids adieu, and another piece of San Francisco dies | by Joe Eskenazi
Washington Post: Anchor Brewing, known as oldest U.S. craft brewery, closes after 127 years | by Praveena Somasundaram and Lyric Li
L.A. Taco: The Truth About the Los Angeles Hotel Workers’ Strike | by Mark Kreidler
Books
Issuu: Hoja Santa | by Maciejka Art (Maya Art) Winner of the LUMA Rencontres Book Dummy Award 2022 – Designed by Ramon Pez – shipping in August from Dewi Lewis
Social Issues
Poster on the old Mission Police Station wall. Valencia between 23rd and 24th streets. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2023
Cal Matters: This California town was already dying. Then the state moved to close its prison | by Nigel Duara
Wired: Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras - They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes | by Adrienne So
The Guardian: I started work as a prison officer full of optimism, but in a rat-infested jail I saw the ugly, violent reality | by Alex South
Slate: Justice Samuel Alito IS the Salmon - Calling this an ethics scandal misses the point. | Dahlia Lithwick
The Amsterdam News: Historic Tulsa reparations lawsuit dismissed, sheds light on ongoing disparities | by NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent Stacy M. Brown
LA Times: The Chicano Moratorium 50 Years Later - A multi part project
Creative Boom: Dealing with burnout? How creatives can boost their mental health in 2023 | by Tom May
Mother Jones: A Teen Died in a Sawmill Accident as Republicans Push to Roll Back Child Labor Laws - Department of Labor statistics show a steady uptick in child labor violations in recent years | by Abigail Wenberg
SF Chronicle: ‘I’m being treated like an addict’: A new kind of drug crisis is descending on the Bay Area | by Nuala Bishari
Division Street
Sidewalk message. Langton St near Harrison, near the jail. South of Market district. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2023
ProPublica: Checked Out: How LA Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost Housing Into Tourist Hotels | by Robin Urevich, Capital & Main, and Gabriel Sandoval, ProPublica, photography by Barbara Davidson for ProPublica
Mission Local: In reversal, Bayview homeless RV site at Pier 94 to stay open—for now | by Joe Riven Barros
Cal Matters: ‘Go to the people’: Street medicine teams bring health care to the unhoused | Larry Valenzuela
SF Standard: Line for San Francisco Homeless Shelters Surges in First Week of New System | by David Sjostedt
SF Chronicle: Deporting Honduran migrants won’t solve S.F.’s drug crisis. The Chronicle’s investigation shows why
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