selected writing
As well as writing for theatre, I also write articles on film, media and politics. My work has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Economist, AnOther, A Rabbit's Foot, Little White Lies, Verso, Metro, Aesthetica, among other publications. In 2025, I was longlisted for The Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism.
Frederick Wiseman Showed Us the World as It Is / ArtReview
Arundhati Roy is right, not Wim Wenders – here are eight films that have changed politics / The Guardian
Budapest has been transformed by this bold immersive theatre attraction / The Independent
Don’t Miss: “Lee Miller” at Tate Britain / Observer
Don’t Miss: “Darwin in Paradise Camp” at the Whitworth in Manchester / Observer
Material Memories in I'm Still Here / Substack
Ten Films That Show What It’s Really Like to Be a Photographer / AnOther
In Rotterdam, Mandy El-Sayegh Offers Up an Assault on the Senses / Observer
Product placement in movies got weird this year / Substack
Problematic photographs in 'Civil War' / Substack
Martin Parr transformed photojournalism / The Economist
This French Riviera town is perfect for an art-filled getaway / The Independent
Favourite reads of 2025 / Substack
Turner and Constable: art history’s favourite fake feud / Plaster
Photography’s Past and Future Hung in Tense Harmony at Paris Photo / Observer
“Thirst” at The Wellcome Collection Dives Deep into the Politics of Water / Observer
Zofia Rydet’s Attempt to Photograph Every Home in Poland is at The Photographers’ Gallery / Observer
This creative life: photographer Sally Mann on 30 years of provocation / A Rabbit's Foot
Flash of the Past: Interview with Martin Parr / Aesthetica
Incomprehensible or Genius: A New Exhibition in Norway Showcases Picasso’s Divisive Late Work / Observer
At London's Garden Museum, Cecil Beaton's Botanical Obsessions / Observer
At Pallant House Gallery, Artists Capture Each Other With Candor, Compassion and Bite / Observer
Shadow, Light and Lemons: Catch Ella Kruglyanskaya in London / Observer
“Resistance” at Turner Contemporary Spotlights the Faces of Dissent / Observer
Peter Hujar’s Liberation and Grief at Raven Row / Observer
Navigating Relationships: Interview with Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett / Aesthetica
Actually romantic and actually funny’: why When Harry Met Sally is my feelgood movie / The Guardian
The Other de Beauvoir: Remembering a Forgotten Talent at London’s Amar Gallery / Observer
Alterations Review – National Theatre / Live Review
‘Life, Love and Death in Sicily’: Letizia Battaglia’s Legacy of Violence On View in London / Observer
Grand Theft Hamlet interview – Shakespeare’s magnum opus brings GTA 5 to cinemas / Metro
Rarely has the end of the world been so funny - Dr Strangelove review / Live Review
Peter Kennard and the Art of Dissent at London’s Whitechapel Gallery / Observer
Imprisoning activists endangers us all / Shado
Green Border: a new film shines a light on violent borders / Shado
At London’s Imperial War Museum, Tim Hetherington’s Unorthodox War Photography / Observer
Review: Sebastião Salgado at London’s Somerset House / Observer
The Stuff of Nightmares: Sex on Screen and It Follows at Ten / InReview
The Lasting Legacy of Bert Hardy’s War Photographs / The London Magazine
If you’re a man: The Iron Claw, sport and masculinity in film / A Rabbit's Foot
Voicing Inner Screens: Ousame Sembène / Verso
In 1924, cinema was hailed as an agent of world peace. Has it failed? / The Guardian
“A genius astrophysicist is a new one for me” — Zoe Telford on The Lazarus Project Season 2 / Filmhounds
Closing the cinema will further divide St Andrews / Scottish Left Review
Love in Translation / Filmhounds
The original Frasier was genius – the reboot feels like it was written by ChatGPT / Metro
Exploring Ousmane Sembène’s activist cinema at 100 / Little White Lies
A Danger to Activism / UKYCC