Needles of the Afternoon

  • Txema Yeste, Needles, Editorial RM, 2025

Anastasia Samoylova: Adaptation

  • Thames & Hudson, 2024

August Sander’s Open Work

  • August Sander: People of the 20th Century, Galerie Julian Sander, 2024

Magdalena Wywrot, Pestka

  • Deadbeat Club, 2024

‘Magdalena Wywrot with David Campany’

  • True Photo Journal n.10, 2024

Floridas

  • Palmer: the Palm Beach Reader, vol.6, 2024

Lee Friedlander’s ‘The Little Screens’

  • The Wrap Book vol. 2: The Art of Television, 2024

William Klein – All the World’s a Stage

  • MAAT, Lisbon, 2024

Brian Griffin (1948-2024)

  • Dear Dave n.36, 2024

Heads Up, Heads Down

  • Rulx Thork, I Give you Power, Little Big Man Books, 2024

Off the Wall: photography exhibitions and design

  • Aperture magazine 255, Summer 2024, 2024

Alluring Deceptions: the work of Valérie Belin

  • FT Weekend, May 3, 2024

Robert Frank – The Instantaneous Reaction to Oneself

  • Robert Frank: The Americans, Steidl / Zander Galerie / Pace Gallery, 2024

‘I saw right away that he was not there’

  • Edgar Martins, Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and a Grief-stricken Thumb, The Moth House, 2024

‘Ernst Haas, Projected’

  • Ernst Haas, Abstract, Prestel Publishing, 2024

Amin Yousefi – Eyes Dazzle as they Search For the Truth

  • FOAM magazine #65, 2024

To Value What is in Front of Us

  • Louis Stettner, Fundación MAPFRE 2023, Thames & Hudson, 2024

Cameras Need Not Sleep: Dhruv Malhotra

  • Night Fever: Film and Photography After Dark, Koenig Books / The Shoestring Publisher, 2024

‘Theory as Literature’

  • Objektiv #25, A Criticism Review, 2024

‘Weegee and Kubrick’

  • Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, Thames & Hudson, 2024

Continuity and Change

  • Francesco Neri - Wooden Tool Shed, Imagebeeld Editions, 2024

Alexey Brodovitch’s Ballet

  • Alexey Brodovitch, Astonish Me, Yale University Press, 2024

The Glitch is in Us

  • Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein, American Glitch, Gnomic Books, 2024

A Life in Pictures

  • Palmer. The Palm Beach Reader, Vol. 4, 2023

Walker Evans / Allie Mae Burroughs, 1936, Timeline

  • Aperture magazine 250, 2023

Julian Germain & Charles Snelling, ‘For Every Minute You Are Angry You Lose Sixty Seconds of Happiness’

  • Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography, Thames & Hudson, 2023

‘Fixed Images, Unfixed Meanings’

  • Photography - Real and Imagined, Thames & Hudson, Australia and New Zealand, 2023

Surgical and Sensual

  • Caleb Stein, How to Move a Mountain, Luhz Press, 2023

Robert Cumming: Very Pictorial Conceptual Art

  • Stanley/Barker, 2023

Twelve Notes for a pre-history to the work of Sam Youkilis

  • Sam Youkilis: Somewhere 2017-2023, Loose Joints, 2023

Dear Charles Baudelaire

  • Futures / VOID, 2023

Foreword

  • Ximena Echagüe, Trapped, Daylight Books, 2023

An Indestructible Object of Affection to be Destroyed

  • Man Ray: Other Objects, Luxembourg + Co. / Buchhandlung Walter und Franz Koenig, 2023

‘The Fiery Pool’

  • Anastasia Samoylova, Image Cities, Fundación MAPFRE / Hatje Cantz, 2023

In Search of Blue Gold

  • The Colour Journal: the Blue Issue, Alep Publishing, 2023

Definitively Unfinished

  • Joan Fontcuberta, Cultura di Polvere (Danilo Montanari Editore / ICCD), 2023

Rules and Exceptions

  • Damien Hirst, Where the Land Meets the Sea, HENI Publishing, 2023

Seeing Sweet: a Pink Suite

  • C/O Berlin Newspaper, January, 2023

Something Lost, Something Gained

  • Giulia Parlato, Diachronicles, Witty Books, 2023

William Klein: YES

  • Thames & Hudson, 2023

How William Klein wowed Orson Welles, influenced Federico Fellini and anticipated reality TV

  • The Telegraph (UK), January 8, 2023

Photography’s Long Short Road to the Non-Fungible Token (NFT)

  • Fellowship, 2022

Theses on the Disaster of Photography

  • The Camera of Disaster, Studio for Propositional Cinema, 2022

Between Art and Function. What purpose does a photograph serve?

  • Aperture Magazine n. 249: 'Reference', 2022

This Country. Thoughts on the photography of Chris Killip and Graham Smith

  • Chris Killip & Graham Smith 20/20, Augusta Edwards Fine Art, 2022

Feeling Light: Elizabeth Bick’s photographs at the Pantheon, Rome

  • FT Weekend Magazine, September 3/4, 2022

‘Secondary Revision’

  • Suffo Moncloa, Walk To The Moon, The Montana Club, 2022

Harry Gruyaert, Between Worlds

  • Thames & Hudson (English) / Atelier Xavier Barral (French), 2022

Easier Said than Done

  • John Divola, SCAPES, Skinnerboox, 2022

Dear Ave Pildas

  • Ave Pildas, STAR STRUCK, Deadbeat Club Press, 2022

‘Cornelia Parker’s Photography’

  • Cornelia Parker, Tate, 2022

Anastasia Samoylova & Walker Evans: Floridas

  • Steidl, 2022

Street Photography between Reportage, Cinema and Theatre

  • Street Life: the street in art from Kirchner to Streuli, Hirmer / Wilhelm Hack Museum, 2021

Life Is Good for You in William Klein’s New York

  • Aperture, July 12, 2021

A context for Pablo Lopez Luz’s Baja Moda

  • Pablo Lopez Luz, Baja Moda, Editorial RM, 2021

Foreshadow

  • Tiane Doan Na Champassak, VIA PIA, Siam's Guy Books, 2021

Metropolis Futures. Collage and the City.

  • Architectural Review, July/August, 2021

‘True but Tenuous’

  • Jennifer Garza-Cuen and Odette England. 'Past Paper / Present Marks: Responding to Rauschenberg,' Radius Books, 2021

Photographing ‘Rear Window’

  • A pala de Walsh, 2021

‘Self Policing’

  • Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph, Jason Fulford, ed., Aperture, 2021

Amak Mahmoodian: Zanjir

  • FOAM magazine n. 59, 2021

#ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis

  • International Center of Photography & G Editions, 2021

Slowly, Quickly

  • Benedikt Partenheimer, The Weather is Fine, Hatje Cantz , 2021

Facts and Other Mysteries, around Aaron Schuman’s SLANT

  • Foreground, 2020

The Photographic Limbo

  • FOAM magazine n. 57, 2020

EFMR7

  • David Rothenberg, Roosevelt Station, Perimeter Editions, 2020

Margins of Error and Expectation

  • Jo Dennis, 'I touched this with my hand, I touched that with my eye', 2020

Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling

  • Saint Lucy Books, 2020

Manoel de Oliveira’s Photography Then and Now

  • Manoel de Oliveira - Photographer, Fundação De Serralves, 2020

To the Unknown Viewer

  • Lola & Pani, Studio portraits 2015-2020, Palm Studios, 2020

Dayanita Singh, Montages

  • Architectural Review, July/August, 2020

Anja Engelke, Room 125

  • Kerber Verlag, 2020

In Through the Back Door

  • Peter Alexander, Dreamland - Polaroids, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2020

Dark Forests

  • Frido Troost- An Educational Archive of 2683 Slides, Art Paper Editions, 2020

Jeff Wall / Dan Graham, Sara Cywnar, Thomas Ruff, Stephen Waddell, Naoya Hatakeyama, Ines Van Lamsweerde

  • Baloise Art, Hatje Cantz, 2020

An-My Lê

  • Photograph Magazine, March-April, 2020

Ed Panar: Walking through Walker Evans

  • Aperture Magazine n. 238, House & Home, 2020

Looking for Transcendence: Can Photography Represent the Ineffable?

  • Aperture Magazine #237, Winter, 2019

‘In the Company of Strangers’

  • George Georgiou, Americans Parade, BB Editions, 2019

Günter Umberg & James White – Conversation

  • Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2019

Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone

  • Steidl, 2019

Around Cynthia Daignault’s ‘Light Atlas’

  • Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2019

Jeff Mermelstein: HARDENED

  • Morel Books, 2019

The affection and energy of Antanas Sutkus

  • Antanas Sutkus, Planet Lithuania, Steidl, 2019

The Crowd and Its Image

  • Juan Genovés, Resistencia, La Fabrica, 2019

Enigma Variations – Jeff Wall

  • FT Weekend Magazine June 22-23, 2019

What do you want to know? What do you want to feel?

  • Chen Wei, Noon Club, Skira, 2019

Uncertainty Multiplied

  • David Jiménez, Universos, RM Verlag, 2019

Allan Sekula: Making Waves

  • FT Weekend Magazine, March 9/10, 2019

Victor Burgin, Photopath, 1967/1969

  • EXIT magazine, issue n. 74, 2019

Alex Majoli: Scene

  • Le Bal / MACK, 2019

Afterword

  • Jean-Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni, RHOME, MASA, 2018

‘Painting and Other Things’

  • Irving Penn: Paintings, Apparation, 2018

‘Luigi Ghirri: Architecture, Word and Image’ / ‘Architettura, Imagine e Parola’

  • Luigi Ghirri: Il Paesaggio dell'architettura, Electa, 2018

Making Art from Art

  • A Matter of Light. Nine photographers in the Vatican Museums, Contrasto, 2018

‘Migrant Mother, 1936’

  • Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing, Barbican Art Gallery / Prestel, 2018

Modern Vision

  • Aperture n. 231, Film & Foto, Summer, 2018

Physical Space, Image Space, Psychical Space

  • The Pulse of the Body: Uses and Representations of Space, Bombas Gens Centre d'Art, 2018

The Singular Picture

  • Jeff Wall: Appearance, Edition Cantz, 2018

Dayanita Singh and Mona Ahmed

  • 'Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins', Prestel / Barbican Gallery, London, 2018

Kodachrome Red: Fred Herzog, Tod Papageorge and Harry Gruyaert

  • RVM magazine no. 1, The Red Issue, 2018

Stephen Shore A-Z

  • Stephen Shore, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017

Photography and the Present

  • Unseen Magazine, 2017

Colour, Continued

  • Art Press magazine, November, 2017

Once was Enough: on David Lynch’s ‘Twin Peaks’

  • A Place Both Wonderful and Strange, Fuego Books, 2017

A Mystery Unto Himself. On Lise Sarfati’s ‘Oh Man’

  • Lise Sarfati: Oh Man, Steidl, 2017

The Still Point of the Turning World: Between Film and Photography

  • FoMu Antwerp, June 23 – October 8, 2017

Thomas Ruff: Image Ventriloquism and the Visual Primer

  • Thomas Ruff, exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Gallery, 2017

Tod Papageorge, Dr. Blankman’s New York – Kodachromes 1966-1967

  • Steidl, 2017

The Hook

  • Txema Salvans, The Waiting Game II, RM, Spain, 2017

‘Dust to Dust’ – David Campany discusses his exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London

  • FT Weekend Magazine, June 3/4, 2017, 2017

Harry Gruyaert: East/West

  • Thames & Hudson / Textuel / Hannibal Publishing, 2017

Beneath the Street – Helen Levitt’s Subway Photographs

  • Manhattan Transit: The Subway Photographs of Helen Levitt, Galerie Thomas Zander / König, 2017

Pharmacy and Photography

  • Photography RX: Pharmacy in Photography Since 1866, Damiani Editore, 2017

Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973–1981

  • Aperture, 2017

‘The Book of the Film’

  • The Photobook Review n 12, Spring, 2017

”Working for magazines’ and ‘Works’ for magazines: Walker Evans, the popular press and conceptual art’

  • Walker Evans, Clement Cheroux (editor), Prestel, 2017

Domestic Disorder: Re-viewing the Photographs of Robert Cumming

  • Photograph Magazine, March/April, 2017

Nothing has changed. Everything has changed. Stray thoughts on Peter Fraser’s ‘Mathematics’

  • Peter Fraser, Mathematics, Skinnerboox, 2017

USSR in Construction no. 12: The Baltic-White Sea Canal. Photographed and Designed by Alexander Rodchenko

  • FOAM Magazine #47: Propaganda, 2017

Under, Outside and Between: the elusive art of Ed van der Elsken

  • Ed van der Elsken, Camera in love, PRESTEL, 2017

The Working Life: Photography and the Depiction of Labor

  • Aperture #226: American Destiny, 2017

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa’s ‘All My Gone Life’

  • Contact Sheet no. 187, LightWork Annual, 2016

Uninsistent Manifesto: Helen Levitt

  • The Capilano Review, Summer, 2016

Exit Theory: Thinking Photography and Thinking History from One Crisis to Another – John Tagg

  • British Art Studies Issue 4, published 28 November, 2016

A Question of Finish: thoughts on the work of Jeff Cowen

  • Jeff Cowen: Photoworks, König Books, 2016

ONE

  • Radius Books, 2016

‘Of Time and Place: the photography of Fred Herzog’

  • Fred Herzog: Modern Color, Hatje Cantz, 2016

‘Light and Dark Chambers’

  • Todd Hido - Intimate Distance, Aperture, 2016

‘Fiona Tan and the Photo-Filmic’

  • Fiona Tan, 'Ascent', Izu Photo Museum Japan / De Pont Museum Netherlands, 2016

‘Click! The Sound of Photography’

  • SOURCE magazine, Spring, 2016

Seeing Slowly. Markus Brunetti’s Facades.

  • Markus Brunetti, FACADES, self published, 2016

‘Doomed to See’

  • Andreas Gefeller: BLANK, Hatje Cantz, 2016

‘Anonymous and Incognito: Walker Evans’

  • Walker Evans: Labor Anonymous, D.A.P./Koenig, 2015

Justine Kurland

  • Aperture magazine no. 222, 'Odyssey', Spring, 2015

‘The Given Image: On John Stezaker’s Unassisted Readymades’

  • John Stezaker, Unassisted Readymades, JRP Ringier, 2015

Ideas, Images and the Vital Remainder

  • John Hilliard: Accident and Design, Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris Holzwarth Publications, 2015

Irving Penn’s Flowers

  • Irving Penn: Flowers, Hamilton's Gallery / Irving Penn Foundation, 2015

In no particular order: 100 influences

  • Loose Associations no. 1, The Photographers Gallery, 2015

Affection and Suspicion

  • C Photo, vol.2, n. 10, 'Don't Call me a Photographer!', 2015

Between the Snapshot and Staged Photography

  • 'Photography at MoMA: 1960 to Now', Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2015

Stillness

  • Vision Anew: The Lens and Screen Arts, Adam Bell & Charles H. Traub, eds., Uni. of California Press, 2015

Vision and Beyond: David Batchelder

  • David Batchelder: TIDELAND, Schilt Publishing, 2015

Bern Porter: Dieresis

  • Aperture magazine 219, Summer, 2015

Fast World, Slow Photography: Lewis Baltz

  • Financial Times Weekend magazine, May 16, 2015

‘Photography as Rehearsal / Rehearsal as Photography’

  • Staging Disorder, Black Dog Books, 2015

‘Photography, Encore’

  • Time Present: Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, 2014

Three books for 2014 (or perhaps 1914)

  • Source magazine, 2014

All the World’s a Stage

  • C Photo, vol.2, n. 9, 2014

The ‘Photobook’: What’s in a name?

  • The PhotoBook Review #007, Aperture, Winter, 2014

Into the Light

  • William Klein: Black + Light, Imprint/HackelBury Gallery, 2014

‘Stardust’

  • Mona Kuhn, PRIVATE, Steidl, 2014

Spectacle of Surveillance

  • Jules Spinatsch. Vienna MMIX-10008/7000: Surveillance Panorama Project 4, The Vienna Opera Ball, 2014

Architecture as Photography

  • Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age, Barbican Gallery / Prestel, 2014

Lewis Baltz, Cinema and the Intuition of Nothing

  • Lewis Baltz: Common Objects - Hitchcock, Godard, Antonioni. Le Bal/Steidl, 2014

Zofia Rydet – The Enigmas of Plain Fact

  • www.zofiarydet.com, 2014

Walker Evans (1903-1975)

  • Fifty Key Writers on Photography, Mark Durden ed., Routledge 2013, uploaded, 2014

The Angel of History in the Age of the Internet

  • STAN DOUGLAS: Mise en scène, León Krempel, ed., Prestel, 2014

Still Searching – blog

  • Fotomuseum Winterthur, 2013

Lee Friedlander, ‘Peter Exline, Spokane, Washington, 1970’

  • Photoworks magazine no.20, 2013

Jacques Tati’s Playtime and Photography

  • Aperture no. 212, Fall, 2013

‘All or Nothing, Sun in Empty Rooms’

  • Sarah Jones, Violette Editions, 2013

Xavier Ribas: The ‘Sunday Photographer’

  • Impresiones #4, Fundació Foto Colectania, 2013

Nine things I learned from the art of Mac Adams

  • Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, 2013

Marianne Wex: Let’s Take Back Our Space

  • Aperture no. 213, 2013

Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel: Oranges on Fire – a review

  • Source, no. 74, 2013

Muybridge, continued

  • Insomnia, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2013

All American. Five Photographic Books about the USA

  • Aperture no. 209, Winter, 2012

‘William Klein’s Way’

  • William Klein: ABC, TATE/Abrams, 2012

‘Brighton’

  • FIND by Preston is My Paris, 2012

William Klein: Paintings Etc.

  • Contrasto / Hackelbury / Howard Greenberg, 2012

Van Gogh: Lust for Life

  • Frieze Masters, Autumn, 2012

Victor Burgin: Between

  • Aperture no. 210, 2012

John Stezaker – Too Much, Too Little

  • Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, 2012

‘The Time of Chris Killip’

  • Chris Killip: Arbeit/Work, Folkwang Museum / Steidl, 2012

‘In the Frame’

  • Doug Rickard: A New American Picture, Aperture, 2012

Two Film Stills

  • www.varioussmallfires.co.uk, 2012

Foreword to ‘Photography: the Whole Story’

  • Juliet Hacking, ed., Thames & Hudson, 2012

‘Precedented Photography: Gordon Parks, Walker Evans, Yoshikazu Suzuki; or Jeff Wall, Dan Graham, Ed Ruscha’

  • Aperture n.206, Spring, 2012

Recalcitrant Intervention: Walker Evans’ Pages

  • The Photo Book from Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond, I.B. Tauris, 2012

‘Bed’, ‘The Red House’, ‘Labour’

  • Critical Dictionary, David Evans, ed. Black Dog, 2011

Out in the World: Still Life Photography between Art and Commerce

  • Frieze magazine, no. 143, 2011

Photography from Page to Wall

  • Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path, Bozar/Ludion, 2011

‘Traces and Pictures’

  • Through the Looking Brain, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2011

John Stezaker: Two Memories and a Reflection

  • John Stezaker, Film Still, Ridinghouse, 2011

‘The Lens, the Shutter and the Light Sensitive Surface’

  • Photography Theory (James Elkins, ed.), Routledge, 2011

‘Editing Edited’

  • PA magazine no. 3, John Baldessari & Naomi Shohan, 2011

‘Noticing’

  • Paul Graham 1981 & 2011, MACK Editions, 2011

What to Photograph?

  • Source magazine. no. 65, Winter, 2011

The ‘Sinister’ Photograph: Manuel Alvarez Bravo’s Parábola óptica, 1931

  • Photography Discussed, The Tosca Photography Fund, 2010

Drink the wine, discard the bottle, then drink something else.

  • Philosophy of Photography, vol. 1, No. 1, 2010

Mr. Eggleston, have we met before?

  • Source n. 61, 2010

Clare Strand: the Spot Marks the X

  • Aperture no. 200, Fall, 2010

The Scene of Photography and the Future of its Illusion

  • Photoworks n.14, 2010

Yesterday’s Everyday and the Depiction of Work: August Sander, Walker Evans, Allan Sekula

  • Sergio Mah, ed, The Everyday, PhotoEspana, 2009

Rinko Kawauchi

  • OjodePez no. 16, Madrid, 2009

War and the Medical Gaze

  • Source no. 58, Spring, 2009

‘Eugène Atget’s Intelligent Documents’

  • Atget: Photographe de Paris. Errata Editions, 2009

Doug Aitken & Philip Hays

  • PA magazine no.2, 2009

Jason Dee: Between Cinephilia and Cineclasm

  • Stills Gallery, 2009

William Klein’s Tokyo

  • Photoworks no. 13, 2009

Page after Page

  • C Magazine no.10: Making Movies, 2009

That Obscure Object of Photography

  • Photoworks magazine, Spring/Summer, 2008

Re-viewing Rear Window

  • Aperture no. 192, Fall, 2008

Thomas Ruff: Aesthetic of the Pixel

  • IANN magazine no. 2, 2008

Strangely Simple or Simply Strange: Photobooks for Children

  • Source magazine no. 54, Spring, 2008

Motion Pictures: Mark Lewis

  • Frieze, no.115, May, 2008

Jeff Wall & Patrick Faigenbaum

  • PA magazine no.1, 2008

Seung Woo Back’s Double Vision

  • Seung Woo Back, Real World, Foil, Tokyo, 2007

Bill Brandt’s Art of the Document

  • Making History, Tate Publishing, 2006

Simon Patterson: The End

  • Simon Patterson - Black List, Haunch of Venison, 2006

‘Photography and the Wind’

  • Photoworks, Spring/Summer, 2006

‘Once more for Stills’

  • Paper Dreams: the lost art of Hollywood stills photography, Steidl, 2006

Posing, Acting and Photography

  • Stillness and Time, Photoworks, 2006

Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, ‘The Red House’

  • Aperture no. 185, Winter, 2006

Art, Science and Speculation: August Strindberg’s photographics

  • Tate, 2006

Who, What, Where, With What, Why, How and When? The Forensic Rituals of John Divola

  • Aperture, 2006

Helen Sear: Inside the View

  • Photoworks, Autumn/Winter, 2006

‘Dust Breeding, Man Ray, 1920’

  • Singular Images, Sophie Howarth, ed., Tate Publishing, 2005

A found Polaroid

  • SUGO magazine, no.1, 2004

Almost the Same Thing: Some Thoughts on the Photographer as Collector

  • Cruel and Tender, Tate Publishing, 2003

Safety in Numbness: Some remarks on the problems of ‘Late Photography’

  • Photoworks/Photoforum, 2003

Museum and Medium: the Time of Karen Knorr’s Imagery

  • Karen Knorr: Genii Loci, Black Dog Books, 2002

Conceptual Art History, or, a home for ‘Homes For America’

  • Rewriting Conceptual Art, Newman & Bird eds., Reaktion, 1999

‘Art Photographed. Some Notes on Painting and the Book’

  • Postcards on Photography. Painting and Reproduction, N. Salaman & R. Simpson eds., Cambridge Darkroom , 1998

  • Copyright © 2025