Danielle Jackson

Danielle Jackson is a critic, researcher, and arts administrator. As the co-founder and former co-director of the Bronx Documentary Center, a photography gallery and educational space, Danielle helped conceive, develop, and implement the organization’s mission and programs. Formerly, she ran the Cultural Department at the photo agency, Magnum Photos NY. Her projects have been covered by NPR, Wall Street Journal, and ABC News, and her essays on art and politics have appeared on Artnet. She teaches courses in photography and visual culture at Stanford in New York and New York University. She is a 2024 Getty Museum Guest Scholar. 

Selected Recent Writing

For New York Review of Architecture: Humble Abode

for Cultured: Scarification, Open Caskets, and Blood Stains: Arthur Jafa’s 52 Walker Show Tests the Limits of Social Propriety

for Artnet: The ‘Dissonant Chorus’ of the 2024 Biennial Lost Me

for Cultured:  Can a Work of Art Shaped by Western Obsessions Ever Be Truly Decolonial? Zanele Muholi’s Oeuvre Is A Perfect Case Study

for artnet: Deana Lawson's Photos Are Stunningly Popular. They're Also Dangerously Misunderstood

for artnet: What the Whitney Biennial Tells Us About the Future of Photography—and the Artists Who Will Shape It

for Art.sy: Art Spaces Can Bridge Social Divides–But First You Need to Know Your Neighbors

for Re-Picture: The impact of photography amidst the extinction of the mass media

for artnet News: Behind the Frieze Art Fair’s Secret Plan to Create an Art Utopia in the Bronx

for 100 Hard Truths: Always Search for the Real Thing

for American Realness: Between Rage and Love

for Recess Projects: Get In Where You Can Fit In

for NEA: Can Photographers Restore Their Devastated Business?