Selected writings on photography, exhibitions, and the evolving landscape of visual culture.
As digital screens become the primary mode of consuming images, the physical photobook has paradoxically gained new relevance as an object of permanence. This essay explores the tactility of the medium and why collectors are returning to print.
Read Full Essay →For decades, the history of modernist photography was told through a Eurocentric lens. By examining the archives of the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, we uncover a parallel history of abstraction and experimentation in Brazil that challenges our established timeline.
View Related Catalog →Leading an institution like Aperture requires balancing a reverence for history with an urgency for the new. I discuss my transition from the museum gallery to the publishing house, and how the role of the curator is evolving into one of an editor of culture.
Read at Aperture.org →While curating "Words & Pictures," I discovered field notes that radically alter our understanding of Lange's most famous images. This piece examines the friction between caption and image, and the photographer's struggle to control her own narrative.
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