dissertation for the royal college of art
The Outsider's Advantage - A major research discussing imagemakers benefitting from distance to their subject, distance to other cultures and their own, a method of comparing those, and the desire to work in solitude and unnoticed. The 3 mb PDF file includes several illustrations on 52 pages. (click to download PDF)
 
exhibition books / catalogues
Flash Forward 2006: Emerging Photographers from Canada, the U.K. & the U.S., with an essay by Gary Micheal Dault, published by The Magenta Foundation, Toronto, 2007 (click to download full book as PDF)
Carte Blanche: Canadian Photography, with an essay by Douglas Coupland, published by The Magenta Foundation, Toronto, 2007 (click to download promo PDF)
Event Cities, with an essay by Katy McCormick, published by Gallery 44, Toronto, 2006 (click to download exhibition catalogue as PDF)
Fuke, Landscapes, Landschaften, with writing by Keiko Sato, Japan Foundation - Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Cologne, 2006 (click to download exhibition catalogue as PDF)
 
tv features
an image and 1000 words - a faction films production for poverty ticker (english / unreleased) all copyright remains with faction films / only for personal viewing (click to view 100mb quicktime movie) new
the swiss landscape observed by the foreigner - a swiss tv production by 'illico' (french / unrealeased) to view this very cheesy clip please click on this link and then click 'le cinema', '28 septembre' and then 'royal art school' new
reGeneration: 50 photographers of tomorrow - another swiss tv production by '10vor10' (german / 29.06.2005) to view this clip please click on this link and then click 'Ein Jubiläum als Feier für den Nachwuchs' on the bottom new
 
essays on photography
The Outsider's Advantage - A First Text
Edward Weston's 'Excusado'
Crisis Doucmentation in Photography
Essays on Twelve Photographs
The Photographic Diary of Corinne Day
A Photograph that has never ceased to inspire ...
Book Review of Zoltan Jokay’s der, die, das
 
artist statements
Icefishers, 2005
Bedtown, 2005
Observatories, 2004
Uniforms, 2004
No Ball Games, 2002
The Alps, 2006 (a proposal)
Vietnam, 2006 (a proposal)
 
reading
The Stranger by Albert Camus (click to download PDF)
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (click to download PDF) new
Tony Takitani by Haruki Murakami (click to download PDF)
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe (click to download PDF)
Old Goriot by Balzac - never read it I have to admit (click to download PDF) new
Me Talk Pretty One Day (excerpt) by David Sedaris (click to download PDF)
Camera Lucida (excerpt) by Roland Barthes (click to download PDF)
Techniques of the Observer (excerpt) by Jonathan Crary (click to download PDF) new
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger (click to download PDF) new
 
more to come ...