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Danielle Ezzo

@danielleezzo

artist-writer • In the collections / libraries of The Met, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Cornell • gun for hire ✍️ https://linktr.ee/danielleezzo

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Rare and Remarkable Blooms A Conversation with Gregory Eddi Jones

This week’s conversation on my Substack is with Gregory Eddi Jones. We talk about creative hiatus, making art in a content-saturated world, and what it means to choose invisibility in an era that rewards constant output.

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04.03.2026 14:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Mess of Things On friction, efficiency, and what we give up when we optimize creative work

In this week's Substack, I reflect on what I've learned through the conversations I've had to date about the concerns and curiosities of artists engaging with technology. I discuss two recent @anthropic.com and Metalabel research studies.

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18.02.2026 14:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know, right? I never get tired of her work.

04.02.2026 14:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Photography Without Photographs Conversation with Natasha Chuk

This week’s conversation on my Substack is with Natasha Chuk. We talk about her new book Photo Obscura: The Photographic in Post-Photography published by @intellectbooks.bsky.social

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04.02.2026 14:41 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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I'm approaching the final months of Psychic Telephone, the multiyear collaboration w. Marin Sardy. If you're interested in catching up, check out her Substack. Here are a few images I've made along the way. Lots of circles, holes, ellipses, and portals. marinsardy.substack.com

27.01.2026 16:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Afterlife of Declassified Images A Conversation with Evan Hume

This week’s conversation on my Substack is with Evan Hume. We talk about his new book Critical Collection, bureaucratic secrecy, and what it means to teach photography at a moment when its truth claims are increasingly unstable.

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21.01.2026 15:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Persistence of Vision A Conversation with Carlo Van de Roer

First Substack of 2026 ✨ Carlo Van de Roer and I discuss managing uncertainty in photographic processes, the role of long-duration research in shaping one’s pursuits, and what it means to keep photographic thinking as an embodied practice.

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07.01.2026 17:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

FWIW, the jury is still out on Gen AI being good at text summaries. Because it shortens & emphasizes text based on distribution, not meaning, it’s less of a summary (ie, salient points highlighted) than a compression (ie, the most frequently asserted terms in the distribution). Not the same thing!

21.12.2025 20:47 👍 159 🔁 53 💬 6 📌 8
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Writing — Danielle Ezzo

A modest EOY update/website revamp. Notably, my academic paper 'Time, Memory Retrieval, and Speculative Storytelling' will be published in the peer-reviewed journal photographies with Taylor & Francis (April, 2026) about my practice-led research. 🦾

www.danielleezzo.com/writing

17.12.2025 18:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Phantom Islands and Colored Mirrors A Conversation with Liliana Farber

This week’s Substack is with Liliana Farber. We discuss the illusion of objectivity in cartographic images, the real ecological and political costs of “immaterial” infrastructures like the cloud, and fictional servers on flagless boats. Enjoy.

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11.12.2025 19:03 👍 32 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Anti-Solutionism as a Curatorial Framework A Conversation with Chaitanya Harshita Nedunuri Kahn

This week’s conversation on my Substack is with Chaitanya Harshita Nedunuri Kahn. We discuss her curatorial ethos, empathy as an instrument of collective consciousness, and the political stakes of how we make, show, and think with art today.

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26.11.2025 15:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Anachronism and the Air Gap A Conversation with Dan Estabrook

This week’s interview on my Substack is with Dan Estabrook. We talk about nostalgia, the air gap between artist and audience, and his debut monograph Forever & Never.

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16.11.2025 19:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I've posted another engaging conversation on my Substack. This time with Maria Mavropoulou, discussing what’s lost in the translation from the physical to the digital, novelty-seeking as a cultural phenomenon, and more.

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29.10.2025 13:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ooo!

15.10.2025 16:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I've posted another engaging conversation on my Substack. This time with @travisleroy.bsky.social about the invisible labor of image production, CERN, and the challenges of balancing a creative and commercial practice.

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15.10.2025 16:17 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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DEAR DAVE Magazine By Danielle Ezzo, October 10, 2025

I reviewed David Alekhuogie’s exhibition, highlifetime, at Yancey Richardson for Dear Dave Magazine.

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13.10.2025 20:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ill angels only | Danielle Ezzo | Substack A place to work through some things (visual, linguistic, moral). Click to read ill angels only, by Danielle Ezzo, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

My first Substack post, a thoughtful conversation with Aimee Walleston, about risk is live. Have a look or follow along if that's your thing.

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01.10.2025 13:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lately, I’ve been thinking about what’s at stake for us creative folks when the ground beneath us feels uncertain.

Beginning next Wednesday, every other week, I’ll be sharing conversations with creative people about the idea of risk. Strap in!

24.09.2025 14:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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From the opening of ‘Current States of Being: Exploring AI’s Influence on Memory, Identity, and Creativity,’ curated by Sarah Knobel. It was a pleasure to exhibit two bodies of work side-by-side, and to be in such good company alongside @cyberneticforests.bsky.social and Ameera Kawash.

08.09.2025 16:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Eryk Salvaggio, bearded man with black glasses, in blue shirt on stage in front of a projected slide of an abstract image with “pollen x diffusion” written on the slide.

Eryk Salvaggio, bearded man with black glasses, in blue shirt on stage in front of a projected slide of an abstract image with “pollen x diffusion” written on the slide.

This week I spoke at St Lawrence University with @danielleezzo.bsky.social and Ameera Kawash as part of the Brush Art Gallery show, “Current States of Being,” examining AI’s impact on memory, identity and creativity. artgallery.stlawu.edu/current-stat...

06.09.2025 03:09 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I'm honored to be a Lumen Prize finalist in the Still Image category for An Incantation in Twelve Prompts, a poem paired with camera-born images about falling out of love with photography.

Hats off to all the other artists this year!

15.08.2025 12:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I'm thrilled to finally share that Psychic Telephone is going to Indonesia for JIPFest this September. The 22 artist lineup includes two of my favorite working photographers right now, Mackenzie Calle and Nikita Teryoshin, among others.

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13.08.2025 16:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Raque Ford’s Aesthetics of the Aftermath Danielle Ezzo considers the accumulation of forms and feelings in the bold but softly reciprocal work of Raque Ford at Greene Naftali in New York.

I wrote about Raque Ford's exhibition ‘The Barkeeper’s Friend’ on view at Greene Naftali for @ocula.com. The show is on view until August 8th. A big thank you to Aimee Walleston for the invitation.

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05.08.2025 17:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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On the front page of @thetransmitter.bsky.social
this morning: 'Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment' written by Bing Wen Brunton and John Tuthill. This is a fun one. Art Direction, Rebecca Horne

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21.07.2025 13:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My favorite time of the year is when I start printing my work, getting exhibition-ready, and inviting people into the studio for private viewings before things ship off, which is what I'm busy with all this month. From the series Psychic Telephone, UV prints on metal, 16x20"

15.07.2025 21:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Oh hey @nytopinion.nytimes.com

06.07.2025 15:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I’m over the moon to share with you my first @nytopinion.nytimes.com assignment. “Squashing Spotted Lanternflies Will Get Us Only So Far. We Need Wasps.” by Andrew Zaleski, about managing invasive bug species using biocontrol. An enthusiastic thank you, Elana Schlenker 🐞 Link in bio.

02.07.2025 12:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My story traces the phantom presence of a man I’ve never met—my biological father—through inherited photo albums, a vintage brooch, and pixelated home videos. Part speculative memoir, part forensic investigation, it follows the trail of objects and memories across family lines.

01.07.2025 17:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I wrote a personal story for the forthcoming book Double Feature from Saint Lucy Books, which pairs vernacular photos from artist Patrick Pound's collection with texts that play into the theme of doubling.

Preorders coming soon: saintlucybooks.com

01.07.2025 17:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is especially interesting.

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