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Philly, I love you.
Here are 5 (other) things I was looking at and loving this week:
If y’all don’t know this name, you should. Photographer Dee Dwyer is “the visual voice” of her generation.
I’m sure you’ve all seen the photos by now, but here’s the back story of the quick-thinking photographer who tossed his Leica as ICE tackled him to the ground. [Note: Here are some other photographers you should be following on the ground in Minneapolis: David Guttenfelder, Vic Blue, Richard Tsong-Taatarii, Carrie Schreck, Ben Hovland, Brandon Bell, Jaida Grey Eagle, Ellen Schmidt, Madison Swart, Stephen Maturen, Mark Peterson, Nate Gowdy, Patience Zalanga, Nicole Neri, Kerem Yucel, Tim Evans, Liz Flores, Alex Kormann, Vincent Alban, Dave Decker, Georgia Fort, John Abernathy, Pierre Lavie… who else? DM me so I can keep adding to the list!]
When I was a young photojournalist, the objective line on my résumé read, “I’d like to work for a newspaper that places the interests of the community it serves above the bottom line.” I had several editors actually laugh out loud about how naïve it was and tell me something akin to “Good luck, kid.” When I interviewed at the St. Petersburg Times (owned by Poynter, a non-profit journalism institute) they got it. And I got high fives and knew I had found my place. This Substack post by Greta Rybus reminded me of all that… and our roles in society as both a human being and an upper- or lower-case-J journalist. Part two is here.
AI Brain: The gradual weakening of your cognitive, emotional, and creative muscles as more of your thinking, deciding, and interpreting gets handed off to the machines.
I’ve already finished 4 books this year. People ask me how I read so much…
Oh man... the reading thing... yeah. I’m two and a half books into the new year (this current one is over 500 pages, so not beating myself up on book count) and I’m realizing; this may be the year that I have to start being more selective about what I read, because my reading always happens at night, before I attempt to sleep. Reading books about current affairs and geopolitics is no longer a soporific. I may even have to sprinkle back in some fiction (first time in a quarter of a century).
Current read is all about how the railways shaped the social history of Great Britain. It doesn’t leave my eyeballs burning a hole through a pitch black ceiling, after the lights have gone out...
I’m rolling because the Instagram Reel you linked to about reading books is by a dear friend of mine that I met when I was a military spouse!! Worlds colliding!!!