Reviews, Essays, and Interviews (2009-present)
Since 2009, I have written over 150 reviews and essays on photobooks for publications such as Afterimage, Aperture, The Brooklyn Rail, fototazo, FOAM, The Photobook Review, Paper Journal, photo-eye and more.
2019-21
Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective Edited by Paul Martineau (Getty, 2020)
Photography After Capitalism By Ben Burbridge (Routledge, 2020)
Providencia by Daniel Reuter (essay for Centre national de l'audiovisuel)
Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures by Sarah Meister (MoMA, 2020)
Magnum Streetwise Edited by Stephen McLaren (Thames and Hudson, 2019)
Painting, Photography, Film (Bauhausbücher 8) by László Moholy-Nagy (Lars Muller Publishers, 2019)
2018
Landscapes to Come (Unseen Platform)
Interview w/ Susan Lipper, "America's Desert Dystopia" (Aperture blog)
Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography (Aperture, 2017)
Interview w/ Teju Cole (Foam Magazine #50)
Flat Finish by Stephan Keppel (FW Books, 2018)
2017
The Disppearance of Joseph Plummer by Amani Willet (Overlapse, 2017)
Museum Bhavan by Dayanita Singh (Steidl, 2017)
TBW - Subscription Series #5 by Mike Mandel, Susan Meiselas, Bill Burke, and Lee Friedlander (TBW, 2017)
In Most Tides An Island by Nicholas Muellner (SPBH, 2017)
Two Blue Buckets by Peter Fraser (Peperoni, 2017)
Rift/Fault by Marion Belanger (Radius, 2017)
Fancy Pictures by Mark Neville (Steidl, 2016)
Girl Plays With Snake by Clare Strand (MACK, 2016)
2016
Fates Shifts Shape (Spaces Corners, 2016)
Anthony Hernandez by Erin O'Toole (DAP/SFMoMA, 2016)
The Epic Love Story of a Warrior by Peter Puklus (SPBH, 2016)
A Spectacle and Nothing Strange by Ahndraya Parlato (Kehrer Verlag, 2016)
Zzyzx by Greg Halpern (MACK, 2016)
The Castle by Federico Clavarino (Dalphine, 2016)
Unassisted Readymade by John Stezaker (JRP, 2016)
The Itinerant Languages of Photography by Cadava and Nouzeilles (Princeton 2013)
In Flagrante Two / Pirelli Work / Seacoal / Isle of Man Revisted by Chris Killip (Steidl, 2015/16)
Provoke by Diane Dufour and Matthew Witkovsky (Steidl, 2016)
Ext.-Int. by Raimond Wouda (FW Books, 2015)
Aliqual by Massimo Mastrorillo (Skinnerboox, 2016)
Meridian by Colin Stearns (RITA, 2015)
The Home Front by Kenneth Graves (MACK, 2015)
Silent Histories by Kazuma Obara (RM, 2015)
Due to a Lack of Interest Tomorrow has been Cancelled by Sanne Pepper (Lecturis, 2015)
Hold the Line by Siegfried Hansen (Verlag Kettler, 2015)
My Life as a Man by Carmen Winant (Horses Think, 2015)
2015
My Blank Pages by Michael Schmelling (Ice Plant, 2015)
Stranger by Olivia Arthur (Fishbar, 2015)
Ways of Knowing by Daniel Steir (YES Editions, 2015)
Lago by Ron Jude (MACK, 2015)
Voyage of Discovery by Carly Steinbrunn (MACK, 2015)
Find a Fallen Star by Regine Petersen (Kehrer, 2015)
Catarsi by Massimo Leardini (Editions Du LIC, 2015)
Block by Aapo Huta (Kehrer, 2015)
Island in my Mind by Irina Rozovsky (Kettler Verlag, 2015)
Fire in Cairo by Matthew Connors (SPBH, 2015)
Bergen by Daniela Keiser (The Green Box, 2015)
Archipelago by Matthew Porter (MACK, 2015)
Infinite Power by David Brandon Greeting (Pau Wau, 2015)
The Bungalow by Anouk Kruithof (Onomatopee, 2015)
The Sun Shone Glaringly by Seth Lower (Ice Plant, 2014)
Half Wild by Peter Happel Christian (Conveyor, 2014)
Invisible City by Ken Schles (Steidl, 2014)
Night Walk by Ken Schles (Steidl, 2014)
Out of Order by Penelope Umbrico (RVB, 2015)
Islands of the Blest by Bryan Schumaat and Ashley Davis (Silas Finch, 2015)
Aaron Siskind: Another Photographic Reality (University of Texas, 2014)
Songbook by Alec Soth (MACK, 2015)
Tranquility by Heikki Kaski (Lecturis, 2014)
Printed in Germany by Christopher Williams (Walther König, 2014)
Out There by Bruno Augsburger (STURM & DRANG, 2014)
Land without Past by Philipp Ebeling (Fishbar, 2014)
100 Years by Doug Aitken (Rizzoli, 2014)
2014
Sudden Flowers by Eric Gottesman (Fishbar, 2014)
Events Ashore by An-My Lê (Aperture, 2014)
billie by Ofer Wolberger (Horses Think, 2014)
A Perpetual Season by Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine (MACK, 2014)
North Philadelphia by Daniel Traub (Kehrer, 2014)
El Porqué de las Naranjas by Ricardo Cases (MACK, 2014)
Intergalático by Guilherme Gerais (Avalanche, 2014)
The Epilogue by Laia Abril (Dewi Lewis, 2014)
Tectonic by Johan Rosenmunthe (SPBH, 2014)
Does Yellow Run Forever? by Paul Graham (MACK, 2014)
Common Love by Isidro Ramirez (The Velvet Cell, 2014)
Natur by Michael Schmidt (MACK, 2014)
Frowst by Joanna Piotrowska (MACK, 2014)
Stasis by Trine Søndergaard (Hatje Cantz, 2014)
Le Nome Qui Efface La Couleur by Israel Ariño (Ediciones Anómalas / Filgranes Editions, 2014)
Walker Evans: The Magazine Work by David Campany (Steidl, 2014)
Early Black and White by Saul Leiter (Steidl, 2014)
Overnight Generation by Italo Morales (Self, 2014)
Tales from the City of Gold by Jason Larkin (Kehrer, 2014)
World of Details by Viktoria Binschtok (Distanz, 2013)
The 99 and The 9 by Katy Grannan (Fraenkel, 2014)
Dolce Via by Charles H. Traub (Damiani, 2014)
Costa by Jose Pedro Cortes (Pierre von Kleist Editions, 2013)
The Place we Live by Robert Adams (Yale/Steidl, 2014)
History of a Visit by Daniel Reuter (Peperoni, 2014)
Ad Infinitum by Kris Vervaeke (Self, 2013)
Away from Home by Kürsat Bayhan (Self, 2013)
Personal Matters by Motohiko Hausui (Bemojake, 2013)
Conjuring Paradise by Betsy Karel (Radius, 2013)
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Erik Schubert (Lavalette, 2013)
The Sochi Project by Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen (Aperture, 2013)
Drawing a Line by Wataru Yamamoto (MCV MCV, 2012)
Between the Shell by Paul Salveson (MACK, 2013)
Mystic Places by James Justin Reed (Horses Think, 2013)
The Photography of Nature / The Nature of Photography by Joan Fontcuberta (MACK, 2013)
2013
The Canaries by Thilde Jensen (Self, 2013)
Field Work by Martin Kollar (MACK, 2013)
Still Life Portrait and Parts by Daniel Gordon (Morel, 2013)
She Dances on Jackson by Vanessa Winship (MACK, 2013)
Speaking of Scars by Teresa Eng (Self, 2013)
Dangerous Women (Spaces Corners, 2013)
Notes from the Foundry (Spaces Corners, 2013)
Gasoline by David Campany (MACK, 2013)
Dalston Anatomy by Lorenzo Viturri (SPBH, 2013)
LDN2 by Antony Cairns (AMC, 2013)
Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake (Self, 2013)
Nine Nameless Mountains by Maanantai (Kehrer, 2013)
Black Sea of Concrete by Rafal Milach (Self, 2013)
Nangokusho by Atsushi Fujiwara (SOKYUSHA, 2013)
The Arrangement by Ruth van Beek (RVB, 2013)
Ametsuchi by Rinko Kawauchi (Aperture, 2013)
Garry Winogrand Ed. Leo Rubinfien (Yale/SFMoMA, 2013)
Twin Boat by Koji Onaka (Session, 2013)
Disquiet by Amani Willet (Damiani Factory, 2013)
Wildlife Analysis by Bryan Graf (Conveyor, 2013)
White Road by Ivan Sigal (Steidl, 2013)
Selections from the Joint Photographic Project by Adam Ryder (Self, 2013)
Andrey Tarkovsky: Films, Stills, Polaroids and Writings (Schirmer/Mosel, 2012)
Paris Photo by David Lynch (Steidl, 2013)
A Partial Eclipse by Martin Boyce (MACK, 2013)
Casa De Campo by Antonio M. Xoubanova (MACK, 2013)
Passengers by John Schabel (Twin Palms, 2013)
The Unphotographable (Fraenkel, 2013)
Concrete Geographies by Xavier Ribas (b-sides, 2012)
Animal Farm by Daniel Naude (Prestel, 2012)
Agroperiferics by Ignasi Lopez (b-sides, 2012)
Kodachrome by Luigi Ghirri (MACK, 2012)
The Cliffs by Bertrand Fleuret (JL Books, 2012)
"The Surrealist's Grand Tour," in FOAM 33 (Winter 2012/13), Essay accompanies portfolio by Anne Sophie Merryman
"What good are the critics; or how to dance about photography," in Afterimage (July 2013); originally presented at VSW Photo-Bookworks Symposium 2012
2012
Another Language by Marten Lange (MACK, 2012)
The Actor by John Gossage (Loosestrife, 2012)
She Called Me By Name by John Gossage (Loosestrife, 2012)
A City in the Mind by Peter Fraser (Steidl, 2012)
Elementary Calculus by J Carrier (MACK, 2012)
Welcome to Springfield by Michael Abrams (Loosestrife, 2012)
Mrs. Merryman’s Collection by Anne Sophie Merryman (MACK, 2012)
American Portraits: 1979-1989 by Leon Borensztein (Nazraeli, 2012)
Lick Creek Line by Ron Jude (MACK, 2012)
Photographs Not Taken Ed. By Will Steacy (Daylight, 2011)
Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present Ed. Peter Pfrunder (Prestel, 2011)
The Present by Paul Graham (MACK, 2012)
Timothy H. O’Sullivan: The King Survey Pictures by Keith Davis and Jane Aspinwall (Yale, 2012)
Summertime by Mark Steinmetz (Nazraeli, 2012)
Eva’s Book/Berlin in Pictures by John Gossage (Super Labo, 2011)
The Significant Savages by Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine (RVB Books, 2011)
Watching the Weather Change by Marco van Duyvendijk (Self, 2011)
Redwood Saw by Richard Rothman (Nazraeli Press, 2011)
"Red Blood Snow," in FOAM 30 (Spring 2012), Essay accompanies portfolio by Christian Patterson
2011
Oculus by Ken Schles (Nooderlicht, 2011)
Redheaded Peckerwood by Christian Patterson (MACK, 2011)
A by Greg Halpern (JL Books, 2011)
Traces by Ian Teh (Self, 2011)
In The Face of Silence by Christophe Agou (Dewi Lewis, 2011)
Abendesonne by Misha De Ridder (Schaden, 2011)
Cruising by Chad States (Powerhouse, 2011)
A New Map of Italy by Guido Guidi (Loosestrife, 2011)
Chinese Sentiment by Shen Wei (Charles Lane Press, 2011)
One to Nothing by Irina Rozovsky (Kehrer, 2011)
Brut by Paul Kranzler (FotoHof, 2011)
The Mushroom Collector, or letters from Scranton
2009-10
"Photographs about Photographs," in Lay Flat 02: Meta Edited by Shane Lavalette and Michael Buehler-Rose (2010)
Notes on an eponymous city guide, in FOAM 23 (Summer 2010), Essay accompanies portfolio by Bertrand Fleuret)
Time Forks and Terrestrial Maps: Bertrand Fleuret’s Landmasses and Railways