Writings & Talks / Books
Here is a selection of some of my writings from books (Books) and periodicals (Writings) as well as videos of Talks from the last four decades, with short descriptions that I have added to put them in context. It will be updated from time to time.
Other books:

The Eternal Present and the Contested Past

“Image/Con/Text/”


“Afterword: The Lens and the Algorithm: From Reification to New Liquidities”


“The Agony and the Artifice”

“Introduction: Questions, Hidden by the Answers”

“Parsing the Revolution”

“Questioning the Afterwar”

“Of Slow Photographs and Stillborn Dreams”


“Toward a Hyperphotography”



“Felice Beato: First War Photographer”

“Photography Changes How News is Reported”

“Beyond the Rectangles”

“Parsing the Wound”


“Twenty Years, and Later”

“The History of Photographic Reportage”

“Time Travels”

“The end of photography as we have known it”

“Photojournalism in the Age of Computers”

“The Lyric Documentarian”

“What is Magnum?”
To view
- EXHIBITION: In Ukraine
- EXHIBITION: The Protest and Recuperation
- EXHIBITION: Dawoud Bey An American Project
- VIDEO: Fascism in America
- EXHIBITION: David Goldblatt Strange Instrument Curated By Zanele Muholi In Collaboration with Yancey Richardson Gallery
- VIDEO: 4-50 Fin w/o “It could be your school next”
- PODCAST: The Power of Photography - A conversation with Pauline Vermare & Fred Ritchin
To read
- Image & Peace
- ‘Glory to Ukraine!’ – photographers from the country put on a compelling show
- These Are the First 100% AI-Generated Stock Photos of People
- Witnesses: 50 years of Doctors Without Borders | Magnum Photos
- How photography and storytelling can turn apathy into climate action by Cristina Mittermeier
- A.I. Is Not A-OK by Maureen Down
- Should museums mount exhibitions with a moral agenda? Absolutely. If they do it well. by Sebastian Smee