Other Work
Flight – Hinterland on stage
Herald Angel Award Winner
New York Times Critic’s Pick
Hinterland, adapted for the stage as Flight by the Glasgow-based theatre company Vox Motus, is currently on international tour, having transferred from the Edinburgh International Festival to Galway, Ireland; Melbourne, Australia; Brighton, UK; Abu Dhabi, UAE; London, in a co-production between The Bridge Theatre and the Barbican; and The Studio Theatre in Washington; after a sold-out extended run in New York.
Essays, Chapters of Books, Anthologies
‘The Afterlife of George Augustus Robinson, Part I’, in FortySouth magazine, issue 113
'Nostalgia in Blue,’ a collaboration with photographer Viviana Peretti, in Granta
'Scar Tissue' in Other Windows: The Sangam House Reader vol. 4
‘Written in Blood’: Witnessing a bullfight in Bayonne, Meanjin
‘Educating the heart’, the last interview given by Susan Sontag, in Meanjin
‘Beyond our ever knowing,’ in Susan Meiselas: In History
‘City of Darkness and Light’, review essay on Bad Faith by Carman Callil and Left Bank Walz by Elaine Lewis, in Meanjin
‘Hearts Lie Bleeding: A Reporter's Story from Mexico,’ in Australian Expats: Stories from Abroad
‘Una Guerra fotogenica: Fotogiornalismo e Guerra civile in Spagna’, in Immagini nemichi
Selected Journalism
From Afghanistan to Melbourne, two boys are set to break your heart, in the Sydney Morning Herald
'This is a story with a happy ending': On the life of Juan Gelman, in The Millions
Argentine grandmothers still searching for stolen grandchildren, in the Sydney Morning Herald
The lost grandchildren of Argentina, in iNews
The Children of the Disappeared, in The Big Issue
'What sort of people do not need the bridge?' in Caro Communications
As Calais 'Jungle' is dismantled, concerns mount for refugee children, in Deutsche Welle online
The long walk to Europe, in The Guardian
Out of Afghanistan: The incredible stories of the boys who walked to Europe, in The Observer
To Europe: At All Costs
A multi-part series for The New York Times
Afghan youths seek a new life in Europe
A filmmaker wades into a French divide
Desperation gathers and makes a nightly dash for Britain
A Port without a Shelter
Unwilling new frontier for migrants: 3 Greek isles
Obscurity and confinement for migrants in Europe
South Asians taking risky route to Europe: Via Africa
Lies, grief and a ticket home for illegal Indian migrants
A brutal passage from India to sea and back
Immigrants open a new path to Europe
Selected Writing on Photography
‘Nostalgia in Blue’, with Viviana Peretti, in Granta 145, Jan. 2019
‘Well-Traveled Photographer, Recording and Then Returning,’ an interview with Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas, in The New York Times, 11 Aug 2007
’Agent provocateur: The photographs of Bettina Rheims’, The British Journal of Photography, Feb. 2005 (guest editor Martin Parr)
‘Murder and High Society: The Photojournalism of Brazil’s Marlene Bergamo,’ The British Journal of Photography, Sept. 2004 (guest editor Martin Parr)
‘Icons of Shame: The photographs of Abu Ghraib,’ The British Journal of Photography, Dec. 2004
‘Hidden Holocaust: The Lodz ghetto photographs of Henryk Ross,’ The Sunday Times Magazine, 22 Aug. 2004