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Over the past twenty years I have written on both the influence of photography and its impact as historic documentation, writing for the British Journal of Photography (London), the National Portrait Gallery (London) and PDN Magazine (New York). Two themes in particular have emerged: exploring the capacity of photography to shed light on history, politics and personal histories, and assessing the impact of photography on contemporary art culture.

As a result, my writing and commentary have engaged with a broad range of subject matter from: photography and the Holocaust; sanctions on Iraq; surveillance and the police state; visual manifestations of the birth of the USSR; the fashion system; through to revisionist appraisals of exponents within the photography canon including Paul Strand, Beaumont Newhall, Edward Sheriff Curtis and Richard Billingham.

Research supporting this publication record includes interviews with: Peter Lindbergh; Bailey; William Klein; Rankin; Rineke Dijkstra; Wolfgang Tillmans; Cristina García Rodero; Helmut Newton and Bill Brandt.

Recent publications include an evaluation of Steichen’s The Family of Man exhibition fifty years on, a critique of Vicente Todolí's achievements with photography as Director of Tate Modern (London) and an assessment of Tyler Brûlé’s audacious reinvention of the travel magazine Monocle.