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.
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Material Memories in I'm Still Here / Substack
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Ten Films That Show What It’s Really Like to Be a Photographer / AnOther
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In Rotterdam, Mandy El-Sayegh Offers Up an Assault on the Senses / Observer
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Product placement in movies got weird this year / Substack
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Problematic photographs in 'Civil War' / Substack
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Martin Parr transformed photojournalism / The Economist
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This French Riviera town is perfect for an art-filled getaway / The Independent
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Favourite reads of 2025 / Substack
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Turner and Constable: art history’s favourite fake feud / Plaster
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Photography’s Past and Future Hung in Tense Harmony at Paris Photo / Observer
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“Thirst” at The Wellcome Collection Dives Deep into the Politics of Water / Observer
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Zofia Rydet’s Attempt to Photograph Every Home in Poland is at The Photographers’ Gallery / Observer
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This creative life: photographer Sally Mann on 30 years of provocation / A Rabbit's Foot
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Flash of the Past: Interview with Martin Parr / Aesthetica
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Incomprehensible or Genius: A New Exhibition in Norway Showcases Picasso’s Divisive Late Work / Observer
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At London's Garden Museum, Cecil Beaton's Botanical Obsessions / Observer
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At Pallant House Gallery, Artists Capture Each Other With Candor, Compassion and Bite / Observer
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Shadow, Light and Lemons: Catch Ella Kruglyanskaya in London / Observer
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“Resistance” at Turner Contemporary Spotlights the Faces of Dissent / Observer
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Peter Hujar’s Liberation and Grief at Raven Row / Observer
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Navigating Relationships: Interview with Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett / Aesthetica
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Actually romantic and actually funny’: why When Harry Met Sally is my feelgood movie / The Guardian
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The Other de Beauvoir: Remembering a Forgotten Talent at London’s Amar Gallery / Observer
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Alterations Review – National Theatre / Live Review
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‘Life, Love and Death in Sicily’: Letizia Battaglia’s Legacy of Violence On View in London / Observer
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Grand Theft Hamlet interview – Shakespeare’s magnum opus brings GTA 5 to cinemas / Metro
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Rarely has the end of the world been so funny - Dr Strangelove review / Live Review
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Peter Kennard and the Art of Dissent at London’s Whitechapel Gallery / Observer
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Imprisoning activists endangers us all / Shado
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Green Border: a new film shines a light on violent borders / Shado
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At London’s Imperial War Museum, Tim Hetherington’s Unorthodox War Photography / Observer
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Review: Sebastião Salgado at London’s Somerset House / Observer
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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
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If you’re a man: The Iron Claw, sport and masculinity in film / A Rabbit's Foot
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Voicing Inner Screens: Ousame Sembène / Verso
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In 1924, cinema was hailed as an agent of world peace. Has it failed? / The Guardian
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“A genius astrophysicist is a new one for me” — Zoe Telford on The Lazarus Project Season 2 / Filmhounds
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Closing the cinema will further divide St Andrews / Scottish Left Review
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Love in Translation / Filmhounds
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The original Frasier was genius – the reboot feels like it was written by ChatGPT / Metro
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Exploring Ousmane Sembène’s activist cinema at 100 / Little White Lies
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A Danger to Activism / UKYCC