Writings & Talks / Writings
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.

Regarding the Pain of Others in Israel and Gaza: How Do We Trust What We See? (Vanity Fair, 2023)

Photography in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (PhotoVogue, 2023)

Of the Iconic Image, and the Viral (Design Viral, 2022)

Josué Rivas: For the Next Seven Generations (2021)

Living Amongst Them (FOTODEMIC, 2021)

Suggestions for the Contemporary Photographer (2020)

The Paradigm Shift: Reinventing the Photographer (2020)

Interview: Pandemic, Photography, and Psychological Distance (FOTODEMIC, 2020)

Remembering the Dead, Differently (FOTODEMIC, 2020)

The Cat, the Photograph and the In-Between (Trigger, 2020)

Columbine Students Are Asking- Will Sharing Photos of the Dead Change our History of Violence? (Time, 2019)

Image in the Era of Post-Truth (Zeke magazine, 2018)

The Ambiguous Role of Photography in Presenting Innocence and Guilt (Time, 2016)

Syrian Torture Archive: When Photographs of Atrocities Don’t Shock (Time, 2014)

Interview: Can Photojournalism Survive in the Instagram Era? (Mother Jones, 2013)

What a Photograph Can Accomplish: Bending the Frame by Fred Ritchin (Time, 2013)

Of Them, And Us (Aperture, 2013)

Light Fades (Aperture, 2012)

The Camera is Not a Machine Gun (Design Observer, 2009)

Leaving Kansas (Apterture, 2008)

Cathe (PixelPress, 2006)

1968: The Unbearable Relevance of Photography (Aperture, 2003)

Evelyn Hoyfer’s Portrait of Moshe Dayan (The New York Times Magazine, 1996)

New Standards for Photographic Reproduction in the Media (1994)

The March of Images (The New York Times, 1991)

The Future of Photojournalism (Aperture #100, 1985)

Photography’s New Bag of Tricks (New York Times Magazine, 1984)

The Photography of Conflict (Aperture #97, 1984)

Beirut: The Photographers’ Story (Camera Arts, 1983)
To read
- The Lens Keeps on Looking: Guy Tillim in an interview with Peter Geimer
- 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
To view
- VIDEO: Exiting the Photographic Universe
- VIDEO: Synthetic Media: How deepfakes could soon change our world
- 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