RECENT public-facing work and media commentary
2025
"A Gold-Framed Mug Shot is Hanging Just Outside the Oval Office," NPR. org. Feb. 2025.
Co-host since 2018 of Chatting the Pictures, a webcast that analyzes news photos of the week. (Multiple episodes' video at link.)
2024
Co-host since 2018 of Chatting the Pictures, a webcast that analyzes news photos of the week. (Multiple episodes' video at link.)
Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign '24. International Center of Photography, New York City, Oct. 2024.
Panelist for "Public Images of the Presidency," an event featuring Pete Souza's presidential photography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in April 2024.
"Presidents Through the Camera's Lens," ShareAmerica (publication of the U.S. State Department), Feb. 2024.
2023
Panelist for "Speaking to the People," BBC Radio's Archive on 4 series, Nov. 2023.
"Trump joins George Washington, John Quincy Adams, and Barack Obama," New York Times, Aug. 30, 2023.
"How Trump's Mug Shot is Changing Photography of Presidents," The 21st Show (Illinois Public Media), Sept. 2023.
"What the image of Marjorie Taylor Greene's phone call to Donald Trump reveals about contemporary American politics," Datum, Feb. 2023. (Originally published in German.)
2022
Consultant and on-camera interview subject for Episode 1 of the PBS Online documentary, The Bigger Picture: "Did this photo make Lincoln President?", Sept. 2022.
Selection jury, Ocean Visuals, a project sponsored by Climate Visuals, designed to create an evidence-based, diverse, impactful digital library of ocean-related climate imagery, Sept.-Oct. 2022.
Radio interview about Photographic Presidents, The 21st (Illinois Public Media), Feb. 2022.
"How the Biden Presidency Became a Cultural Black Hole," Politico Magazine, Jan. 2022.
2021
Web video, "Reading the Pictures: Climate Crisis Video Delivers More Than Instagram Moment," Vogue Italia, Dec. 2021.
Web video, "Reading the Pictures: Beyond Cute," Vogue Italia, Oct. 2021.
Podcast interview about Photographic Presidents, Plodding Through the Presidents, Sept. 2021.
Podcast interview about Photographic Presidents, History Unplugged, May 2021.
Podcast interview about Photographic Presidents, This American President, May 2021.
"How Photography and the Presidency Grew Up Together," lecture for International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, May 2021.
"Biden and Harris Keep Posting the Same Photo; Here's Why," The Independent (UK), March 17, 2021.
"Photography Always Needed the Presidents," History News Network, Feb. 28, 2021.
"Photographic Presidents: How Photography and the Presidency Grew Up Together," Illinois Alumni Association, Feb. 2021.
"New History of Photography Focuses on Presidents," UI News Bureau feature by Craig Chamberlain, Feb. 2021.
"Capitol Artwork a Symbolic Participant in Trump White Supremacist Riot," essay for Reading The Pictures, Jan. 10, 2021.