Danielle Jackson

Danielle Jackson is a critic, researcher, and independent curator. She is the co-founder and former co-director of the Bronx Documentary Center, a photography gallery, screening room, and educational space. Formerly, she ran the Cultural Department at Magnum Photos. Jackson’s essays on art and politics have appeared in Artnet, Aperture, and CULTURED magazines. She teaches courses on visual culture and policy at Stanford in New York and New York University. Her recent project, joining the histories of economic policy and photography, was developed during her time as a 2024 Getty Museum Guest Scholar.

Selected Recent Writing

For Aperture: The Untold Story Behind Larry Clark’s Tulsa

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?