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Critical theory on visual culture, reflections on my own photographic practice, and others, who have influenced me.
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Mary Ellen Mark: The Ethics of Seeing
Mary Ellen Mark became the cartographer of intimacy within instability. Her photographs are less dispatches than allegories, balancing technical precision with an unflinching moral gaze.
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The City as Living Archive
The city, as I read it, is a living archive—messy, polyphonic, and resistant to closure.
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Why I Reject the Pretense of Documentary Neutrality
Neutrality is a myth. Every photograph is already a construction. It’s a comforting illusion to think otherwise.
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Double Exposure: How Kyoto and I Became Each Other’s Props
How mass tourism and social media create Baudrillard’s hyperreality.
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Cindy Sherman’s Deepfake Ghost: Performing Identity
Cindy Sherman’s groundbreaking self-portraits expose identity as a constructed performance.
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A Postmodern Defense of Street Photography Against Susan Sontag’s Moralism
Susan Sontag’s critiques of photography—its voyeurism, detachment, and potential to aestheticize suffering—loom large over debates about street photography.
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Sage Sohier: Human Connection and Social Relationships
Sohier‘s photography represents a masterful exploration of human relationships, identity, and social dynamics in American life.
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Robert Adams: 15 Observations on Photographing the American West
Robert Adams’ photography stands as one of the most significant documentations of environmental change in the American West.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Art of Capturing Life’s Fleeting Moments
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photography captures life’s fleeting moments, revealing depth in everyday scenes.