Steven Seidenberg

Photographer, poet, and philosopher Steven Seidenberg’s collections of photographs include The Architecture of Silence (Contrasto, 2023) and Pipevalve: Berlin (Lodima Press, 2017). He is the author of numerous collections of lyric, philosophical prose and poetry, most recently Anon (Omnidawn, 2022), plain sight (Roof Books, 2020), and Situ (Black Sun Lit, 2018). He has had solo exhibitions of his work in Japan, Italy, Germany, Mexico, and the United States, and his books have appeared in Swedish, Italian, and Portuguese translations.

Artist Steven Seidenberg and archaeologist Carolyn White collaborate to image and interpret domestic spaces in occupied buildings, temporary encampments, and other liminal housing in contemporary Italy. Through fine art photography and archaeo/anthropological practices, they explore the ways through which migrants, disenfranchised Italians, and other marginalized populations carve stable homes from abandoned spaces, despite government policies increasingly hostile to their presence and needs.