Unlike Flowers by Francesco Pennacchio

I had the true pleasure to write an essay for Francesco Pennacchio’s beautiful photobook, Unlike Flowers. Published by Artphilein Editions, the book is a long-term photographic investigation into grief, memory, and the fragile mechanisms through which presence can persist beyond absence. Francesco will be exhibiting the project at Bar Bachibouzouk, Rue du Jardin 12, Vevey during this year’s Biennial Images Vevey as well as at FOCUS, the exhibition space of the De Pietri Artphilein Foundation in Lugano Paradiso, from September 3th to October 30th.

Unfolded Chapters at the 2026 Athens Photo Festival

My publication The Dry Garden will be on view in the exhibition The Photography of Nature & the Nature of Photography - Unfolded Chapters at the Athens Photo Festival this summer. Unfolded Chapters is an annual celebration of photobooks conceived as a curated group exhibition. Each year, the exhibition’s title and thematic framework are derived from a selected book that serves as a crucial point of reference, inviting artists and publishers to engage in dialogue with its ideas.

Many thanks to Sylvia Sachini for including my work. The festival runs from June 10 - July 26.

Fall of Freedom Mixtape / A Gathering of the Tribe

Tracie Dawn Williams curated a mixtape for the Fall of Freedom event, answering a nationwide call for unity in the face of rising authoritarianism in the US. For this call, I revisited the copper plates I had engraved with selections of text from I Looked & Looked. In this selection, Everything We Thought, the texts speak of searching for the moon as much as uncertainty in the face of climate crisis as hurricanes and other weather phenomena become increasingly dangerous.

ICP Photobook Fest, Oct 2-5

This past weekend, two images from La vie is like that were on view in the museum’s Project Space. Seaton Street Press presented a selection of its projects examining the intersections of site, language, and memory, reflecting on familial and constructed archives, migration stories, and geographies. From Justin Hui's Searching for Poon, reconstructing his grandmother's memory and journey from mainland China to Hong Kong, Diana Guerra's Fleeting Under Light, on border crossings and new understandings of family and homelands in Latiné communities, and my book, La vie is like that, exploring language acquisition, migration, love, grief, family, identity, and aphasia, to Tyler Rico's Convergence and Excavation, disparate moments and timelines embedded in places and objects, Matt Neff's Sometimes, on vernacular photography and time as a feeling, and Lindsay Buchman's Stratagems (an overture), reflecting on transracial adoption and how place shapes who we become.

Making A Start, out now from Scarlet Tiger Press

Scarlet Tiger Press, a small press publisher based out of Devon, just released, Making a Start: 17 Artists & Makers on Creative Beginnings in the Age of Environmental Uncertainty. I contributed a pair of images from my studio and wrote a text on starting new projects. The book asks: how do you begin new creative work in the age of climate crisis? What is the value of making by hand, when the future feels uncertain?

Contributors: Kittie Jones, Ella Bua-In, Peter Lanyon, Rosanna Morris, Molly Lemon, Chisara Vidale, Helen Rollinson, Graham Black, Anita Reynolds, Maxine Foster, Theo Crutchley-Mack, Sophie Coe, Oscar Dalby, Melanie Davies, Emma Hogbin, Lee Nutland, Magali Duzant.

Many thanks to Amber Rollinson!

Roots of Cool at Descanso Gardens and The Nature of Cities

I wrote a piece on trees and shade to accompany the exhibition Roots of Cool at LA’s Descanso Gardens. Many thanks to David Maddox from The Nature of Cities for the invitation. The piece, alongside a slew of interesting responses from around the world, can be read or listened to at The Nature of Cities or in person at Descanso Gardens.

Mercuria V.1 Ch.4: Faulty Stars is out!

A few years ago I had the pleasure of writing a short essay about Mercury Retrograde for Conveyor Edition’s experimental publication, Mercuria. The essay is out now, titled Faulty Stars, and features the artwork of Hazel Eckert, Amy Friend, Brett Henrikson, Daniel Hojnacki, Lisa Kereszi, Marta Lee, Marissa Long, and E.C. Musgrave alongside a selection of images I made from the Accidents folder at the NYPL Picture Collection. This is the fourth chapter of Mercuria which will wrap up with a final chapter from Christina Labey. More info available here: https://www.conveyor.studio/shop/p/mercuria-v1-ch4

A Tree Grows in Queens on Book Bliss

A lovely review of A Tree Grows in Queens is included in Contemporary Lynx’s Book Bliss column. Many thanks to Karolina Slup for her sensitive, insightful response to the book!

Read Book Bliss : What The Land Carries here: https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/book-bliss-what-the-land-carries

La vie is like that up on Good

Happy to have an interview about my book, La vie is like that, published on Good.is

I spoke with Elyssa Goodman about thinking and writing about dementia. Many thanks to Elyssa for her insightful, compassionate questions about the project.

You can read the piece here: https://www.good.is/how-artist-magali-duzant-developed-an-art-book-to-think-about-dementia-and-honor-her-fathers-life

This Old Tree - Tree Story Shorts IV

Very excited to share that an excerpt from A Tree Grows in Queens is included in the latest episode, Tree Story Shorts Vol IV of the great podcast This Old Tree. I read from the chapter on The Queens Giant, an old growth tulip tree. Many thanks to Doug Still for including me in the episode! You can listen to it here:

https://www.thisoldtree.show/episode-details/tree-story-shorts-iv#/

I highly recommend listening to all the other episodes. There are great stories about Bartram’s Franklin Tree, a tree that owns itself, the Emancipation Oak, the Harlem Tree of Hope, and many many more!

Support Systems at Longwood Art Gallery

January 22nd is the opening of Support Systems, a group exhibition curated by Christina Freeman at Longwood Art Gallery in the Bronx. I’m excited to have an installation of The Dry Garden included. The exhibit runs through February 25th. More info at the following link: https://www.bronxarts.org/programs/connector/longwood-art-project/longwood-art-gallery