Publications

Great Trees of New York Map

I edited and authored the Great Trees of New York Map (2021) for Blue Crow Media. The fold-out publication features 50 of the oldest, rarest, strangest, and most historic trees across New York City’s five boroughs. Original photographs by Colin Montgomery join my descriptions and essay.

Press: Hyperallergic, We Heart, Untapped Cities

Concrete New York Map

I edited and authored the 2017 Concrete New York Map for Blue Crow Media. It features 50 sites of concrete architecture in New York City, dating from the 1870s to the present. Photographs by Jason Woods illustrate the printed map.

Press: 
New York Times, Fast Company,The Architect’s Newspaper, TelegraphArchitectural Digest, CurbedArchDailyUntapped Cities

Art Deco New York Map

I edited and authored the 2018 Art Deco New York Map for Blue Crow Media. It features 50 sites of Art Deco architecture in New York City, from icons like the Chrysler Building to abandoned structures on an off-limits island. Photographs by Jason Woods illustrate the printed map.

Press: ArchDaily, We Heart, Curbed, Untapped Cities

The Cemetery Language of Flowers Zine

The Cemetery Language of Flowers zine is a 28-page publication on the floral symbolism you are likely to find on tombstones, from snapped roses to lilies.

Some New York City Epitaphs zine

Some New York City Epitaphs Zine

Some New York City Epitaphs is a compact collection of the messages left on the tombstones of the famous, ordinary, and unknown of New York City.

Cemetery Symbols Zine

Created with illustrator Bronwyn Hazelwood, the Cemetery Symbols zine features 20 pages of some of the most common gravestone symbols.

Manhole Covers: The World Underfoot

I started photographing manhole covers while traveling in Cairo in 2017 and have been exploring them around the world ever since. This small publication brings together those photos and my writing on the cultural, artistic, and even criminal connections the covers have to our cities with art by Melbourne-based illustrator Bronwyn Hazelwood to celebrate the humble joy of utilitarian design.

Cooking with the Dead zine

This illustrated zine compiles—and tries out!—recipes left on tombstones around the world. It was a collaboration with illustrator Bronwyn Hazelwood and writer Claire Voon.

Press: New York Times, Tasting Table, Reforma

Book & Catalogue Essays

Below are some of my essay contributions to books, exhibition catalogues, and other publications.

Brooklyn Arcadia: Art, History, and Nature at Majestic Green-Wood

I wrote four essays for Brooklyn Arcadia: Art, History, and Nature at Majestic Green-Wood, a photography book published in 2023 by Rizzoli on the 19th-century New York City cemetery.

Wildflowers of New York City

I contributed an introductory essay to Wildflowers of New York City, a photography book by Andrew Garn that was published by Cornell University Press in 2021. It explores over 2,000 wildflowers that flourish around the five boroughs.

Midwest Architecture Journeys

I contributed an essay on architect Bruce Goff and his fantastic futuristic architecture to Midwest Architecture Journeys, out October 2019 from Belt Publishing. The book explores the architecture of the Midwest United States through essays by architects, critics, and journalists.

Vestiges & Verse

I contributed an essay on the enigmatic artist James Edward Deeds, Jr. for the catalogue for Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic (January 21, 2018–May 27, 2018) at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. The exhibition featured 21 self-taught artists who worked with narrative.

The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays

My essays have been included in two Public Domain Review publications. The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol. VI (2019) has my writing on early New Orleans carnival art. My essay on the 19th-century photographs taken by Félix Nadar in the Paris catacombs is in The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol. VII. (2020).

The Mystical Drawings of George M. Silsbee

wrote an essay on the extraordinary charts by 19th-century Masonic artist George M. Silsbee for their first public exhibition in 2021 in Explanatory Marks Ricco/Maresca in Chelsea.