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

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. danielleezzo.substack.com/p/the-afterl...

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. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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!

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

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. danielleezzo.substack.com/p/phantom-is...

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. danielleezzo.substack.com/p/anti-solut...

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. danielleezzo.substack.com/p/anachronis...

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. danielleezzo.substack.com

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. danielleezzo.substack.com/p/the-compre...

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

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. danielleezzo.substack.com

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!

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.

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...

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!

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. phmuseum.com/festivals/ji...

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. ocula.com/magazine/spo...

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 thetransmitter.org

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"

Oh hey @nytopinion.nytimes.com

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.

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

It's been a moment since I shared some new images from the series, Psychic Telephone—a collaboration with the author Marin Sardy. It's affirming to see a body of work emerge from time and effort spent. It's a slow process, but it happens bit by bit.

I was commissioned by @thetransmitter.bsky.social for the NeuroAI column. 'The BabyLM Challenge: In search of more efficient learning algorithms, researchers look to infants' written by Alona Fyshe. Art Direction Rebecca Horne. www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/the-...

Venice was nothing short of magic. A big thanks to the EA-AI Conference for the invitation.

Special thanks to the British Journal of Photography for inviting me to report on the NEA defunding. “Anticipatory obedience”: The precarious state of photography for the trans community in the United States. www.1854.photography/2025/05/phot...

I was invited to write about Dana Karwas' solo exhibition at Spill 180, which opens May 2nd. Have a read, it's a fun one: spill180.com/beans-1#subl...

An overdue website update. Have a look: www.danielleezzo.com

My review of the Mungo Thomson exhibitions at Karma for Dear Dave Magazine is live. deardavemagazine.com/deardaverevi...

I'm writing a piece that is more deeply reported than the work I'm typically commissioned to do. The act of speaking w. people, seeing their faces, fills me with hope. It's the eye contact, the listening and not guiding the conversation that makes room for possibility.

I dance regularly to ass-shake the scaries away. Last night, friends and I went to a gay party that came highly recommended. When we got there it was 99.8% men and four women, two of which were dressed as clowns. I suspect it’s a metaphor for something, I’m just not sure what.

Some updates on what we’ve been building at OZU - turning archives of video into searchable and editable troves of richly annotated narrative data - letting users discover and play with content in new ways. ozu.ai

From my RAID talk last month. @zachkrall.com @jessicagarson.bsky.social @elevenlabs.io Thanks for the invitation.

I spoke with the artist Eman Ali for her solo exhibition of 'Elsewhere' about escapism, the environment, materiality, and photography's strange relationship with AI at Investec Cape Town Art Fair at Hunna Art Gallery. hunna.art/publications...

When your fashion and literary tastes align. @markalicedurant.bsky.social

The second installment of RAID is happening tonight! We'll have talks from @danielleezzo.bsky.social @kelin.bsky.social Alexia Adana and Trey Schibli and music from @mrsynackster.bsky.social lu.ma/4toid3v8

Up today on @thetransmitter.bsky.social 'Does the solution to building safe artificial intelligence lie in the brain?' written by Patrick Mineault. I really took pleasure in making a big blue brain out of clay. Special thanks to AD Rebecca Horne. www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/does...

I'm heartbroken over Tom Robbins' passing. To say that his books changed my life is simply an understatement. I have been handing out copies of Still Life with Woodpecker since 2002 and have no plans to stop.

Another photo illustration for The Transmitter. This time on NeuroAI and agency: www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/neur...

Undertaking a large, heavily researched piece of writing which is due in a couple of months. The foreseeable future entails thinking through the concept of "the medium as lover." See you on the other side of brain-hurt and bliss.

Where my mind is at right now. Highly recommend both.

A Conversation with David Campany. "This includes the freedom of the work, and indeed the artist, to be strange or silent, to resist the imperative of fast and frictionless understanding." open.substack.com/pub/interlop...

Sometimes, I wake up ecstatic for no apparent reason other than I got to dream.

Kicking the year off with my first assignment for The Transmitter. I've had a lifelong fascination with neurobiology, so it seems only fitting to work with scientists to visualize their research in the burgeoning field of neuroAI. www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/the-...

I've been leaking images from the series Psychic Telephone weekly on my Instagram. But to catch my new followers up, here are some of my favorites so far:

Today, I celebrate my twentieth anniversary of living in NYC. I've lived here for half of my life and longer than anywhere else. What a wild ride it's been so far.

Venice in May. Who else will be presenting at the Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images (EA-AI) conference at the University of Venice this spring?

David Lynch is dead and Saturn is losing its rings. I think that's enough for one day.

I've spent the last several years collaborating with the author Marin Sardy on the series, Psychic Telephone. Subscribe to her Substack to follow along. She posts weekly: marinsardy.substack.com