Robert Gumpert

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Documentary audio and photography. robertgumpert.com. Author of "Division Street" photos of living unhoused on the streets of San Francisco with words and stories. Published by Dewi Lewis. Co-Editor the Stansbury Forum (https://stansburyforum.com)

From the Hiring Halls of Seafarers Photo: Robert Gumpert 2025
Demonstrations in all 50 states led by unions in solidarity with public sector unions facing cutbacks and loss of rights all over the country, but centered in Wisconsin. Photo; Robert Gumpert 2011
Koreatown. Los Angles, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 24 November 2018
Nassai Surian, AB. Member of the SUP. "From the Hiring Hall" Photo: Robert Gumpert 9 June, 2026
Looking for a ship, dreaming of distant places. Photo: Robert Gumpert 02 July 2026
F. Christophe Silvera is the Secretary -Treasurer and Principal Officer of Teamsters Local 808 in Long Island City. Chris Silvera was born in Jamica and died 12 June, 2026 while in route to the Labor Notes Conference in Chicago. Photo: Labor Press
Photo: Robert Gumpert 12 March, 2026
24 June, 2026: It has been perhaps eight years since I have seen folks sleeping in residential doorways in this area of Potrero Hill. Rent on the top unit as of a 26 June web check, is an estimated $5800. Estimated property value: $1,895,000. If it was for sale, based on recent sales in the area, the sale price probably would be around $3 million. Photo: Robert Gumpert
24 June, 2026: Bus stop ad for Monaco on Mission Street street in the Excelsior District. During the World Cup games played in SF, monaco.com - an AI platform, “the first revenue engine for startups” - has had a very visible ad presence.
"No Fishing", broken urinal. Photo: Robert Gumpert
The APL President Grant in the Port of Oakland, California. The President Grant is a US owned and registered ship using American citizen mariners because of the Jones Act.
Super Bowl LX. Photo: Wiki Commons
Muthana Koraish, Able-Bodied Seaman.  Member of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific.  SUP hiring hall, Wilmington, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Apartments on 1st Street between Harrison and Folsom. San Francisco, California. 8 June, 2026 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Wind power plants in Xinjiang, China. Wiki Commons
Wall. 17th Street and Utah. San Francisco, California. 5 June, 2026. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance in front of an ambulance being donated to China, 1939, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection. 1939年，纽约华侨衣馆联合会在他们捐赠给中国的救护车前合影，美国华人博物馆（MOCA)
Pasquale Gazillo Jr, Electrician Mate and Wilmington Port Agent. Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders and Wipers Association (MFOW). MFOW hiring hall, Wilmington, California 12 March, 2026 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Veterans Administration Hospital, Durham, North Carolina. Wiki Commons
Rough sleeping on SOMA - 8th and Hopper. The narrative in SF since tents, and with them community, have nearly disappeared, the city is making "progress" on the housing issue. Perhaps they are but the unhoused count is still in the 8 thousands and more people sleep rough, by themselves. Photo: Robert Gumpert, 24 May, 2026
Delivery drivers wait outside the Metreon complex, 4th St as a unhoused woman with dog pass by. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert, 20 February, 2026
Brian Bernard, Chief Mate. MM&P hiring hall, Oakland, California 18 November 2025, Photo: Robert Gumpert
Brian Bernard, Chief Mate. MM&P hiring hall, Oakland, California 18 November 2025, Photo: Robert Gumpert
45th Anniversary of the Civil Rights March from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery. Credit: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Photos: Robert Gumpert 2026
Louise Cox, first woman welder in Kaiser Richmond shipyard yard 2, Fore ‘n’ Aft, 1942-08-27
Tony Mazzocchi in 1981. Photo: Robert Gumpert
In honor of May Day. "Pay me". Photo: Robert Gumpert 5 May 2009
Car wash on El Camino Real and Sneath Lane. San Bruno, California Photo: Robert Gumpert 17 April 2026
Time as a Tool of Class (Vintage Acroprint Model 125NR4 time clock, ink ribbon, paper, standard 2025 wall clock, vinyl) installed at Workers Arts and Heritage Center, 2026]
Beau Gouig, chief mate. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Togo Onsen, Yurihama, Tottori prefecture, Japan. Wiki Commons
Protecting the ballot boxes. Manila, Philippines. Photo: Robert Gumpert 7 Feb 1986
Mark Hunter, 2nd Mate, outside the Oakland MM&P hiring hall. Photo: Robert Gumpert 17 October, 2026
Peter Olney, in the brown vest and beige watch-cap, at the rally in front of Shimokitazawa Station in Tokyo, Japan. To his left in the red T shirt is Zenroren Secretary General Kurosawa Koichi Photo by Hitoshi Tanaka.
Dylan Barnett, Second Mate - MM&P Hiring Hall, Oakland, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 24 November, 2025
NO KINGS on Ocean Beach. San Francisco, CA. Photo: Robert Gumpert 28 March, 206
“NO KINGS”, 28 March 2026. Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California Photo: Robert Gumpert
From Wiki Commons
Chief Mate Monique Watanabe. Photo: Robert Gumpert 29 December 2025
Posters lining a fenced off vacant lot on Bluxome St at 5th Street. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 7 March 2026
Container ship sails out of the Golden Gate, 17 February 2026. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Just outside the Golden Gate. Photo: Robert Gumpert 17 February 2026
Duane Hanson sculpture, “Man With Ladder” 1994 at San Francisco MOMA. Photo: Robert Gumpert 01 March 2026
ICE protest posting. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 28 February 2026
Al Polk, 2nd Mate and MM&P member. Shipping out for 40 years. “The standard measuring cup for making coffee on a merchant ship for the last 100 years is the Vienna sausage can.” Photo: Robert Gumpert 22 January 2026
Al Polk, 2nd Mate and MM&P member. Shipping out for 40 years. “The standard measuring cup for making coffee on a merchant ship for the last 100 years is the Vienna sausage can.” Photo: Robert Gumpert 22 January 2026