The Plain (2020)

The ‘i’ Newspaper review 9 October 2020

Financial Times, Review by Chris Allnutt, Life & Arts, Saturday Weekend

 C4 Journal. Review by Lucy Rogers

The Morning Star: A Conflicted Landscape of War and Peace. Review by John Green

Royal Photographic Society (RPS) Journal, Jan/Feb 2021, My Place

On Landscape magazine, Interview with MF by Charlotte Parkin, PDF (high res available on request)

L’Oeil de la Photographie (The Eye of Photography))

The Home Front (2013)

Comments from academics Julian Stallabrass, Wendy Kozol, Blake Fitzpatrick, Robert JC Young and Charles Hustwick

British Journal of Photography This is War issue, August 2014

Photography and Culture journal, November 2015

Photomonitor, Review of the Home Front exhibition by Rachel Segal Hamilton

Source magazine, Spring 2014 review by Edward Welch

Aesthetica magazine, The Home Front at Impressions Gallery

Flux Magazine Melanie Friend's The Home Front, War Games for all the Family 11 September 2013

KATALOG feature

Photomonitor listings

War and Media Network

Discover Society, 6 January 2014

Gaslight Photography, 2015, short review of BJP This is War feature see p15, 16

More reviews of other works to follow soon…

Border Country (2007)

The Guardian, 7 November 2008, article Here for some time by Marc Leverton

Red Pepper, review of Border Country by Amanda Sebesteyn, April, May 2008

Culture Wars by Chris Gilligan (pdf)

https://www.academia.edu/252636/Review_Border_Country_Photographs_by_Melanie_Friend_UK_Tour (live link to Academia eu)

Article by MF on the making of Border Country, for FQS Volume 11, No. 2, Art. 33 – May 2010

Black Flash (Canada), extract from review by Katy McCormick

Globe and Mail (Toronto) review of Border Country by R.M. Vaughan

TAZ (Germany) review of ECB award, inc mention of Border Country

more to come soon…

No Place Like Home: Echoes from Kosovo (2001, USA)

The Progressive (USA) review by Marlene Nadle

Oakland Tribune (USA), review by Kate Scannell

Boston Globe (USA) photo caption, 9 April 2002

Library Journal (USA) review by Natasa Musa

Booklist (USA) 2002

Illyria (USA) review by Puja Aswani, April 2002

The Independent (UK), Books of the Year, NPLH selected by Amanda Hopkinson

The Financial Times (UK) review of photobooks, International Geographic, by Jan Dalley

BBC Arts, Kosovo Portraits in Focus 11 January 2002

British Journal of Photography (UK) 2002

BACEE (British Association for Central and Eastern Europe), UK, review

Time Out (UK), 5-12 December 2001

Minority Rights Group (UK) review by Poppy Szaybo

New Internationalist (UK), review of NPLH

Katalog (Denmark, in Danish & English), review by Anthony Georgieff, 2002

Source (Ireland), 2002, review by Jane Fletcher

OJPCR online, Oct 2003, Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution

Nacional (Kosova/Albania) review (in Albanian) by Daut Dauti, 2001

Koha Ditore (Kosova) review (in Albanian) of BBC Everywoman interview with MF on NPLH

Bota Sot (Kosova) review (in Albanian) by Sami Islami

Homes and Gardens: Documenting the Invisible (1996)

(Note: Some of these reviews were typed out back in the early days of my first website .… The original publications are in my archive at the Bishopsgate Institute)

Creative Camera 1996, review by Val Williams

Spot magazine (USA), 1999, review by Dick Doughty

Mute, Digital Art Critique, 1996, review by Josephine Berry.

Art and Design (October 1996 issue on Art and The Home, Academy Editions).

Birmingham Post, review of Claustrophobia, inc H & G by Terry Grimley

The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art, Claudette Lauzon, 2017, University of Toronto press (a search for Homes and Gardens within this document will bring up several pages of discussion)

more to come…

Prime of Life (Silent Health group show) 1990

The List, review of Silent Health, Stills Gallery, May 1991

Edinburgh Old Town News of Silent Health, Stills Gallery

The Scotsman review of Silent Health, Stills Gallery

Yorkshire Post review of Silent Health, Leeds Polytechnic Gallery, 4 March 1991

Guardian review of Silent Health, Camerawork 24 Oct 1990

Spare Rib review of Silent Health, Camerawork

Catalyst review of Silent Health, Camerawork

City Limits review of Silent Health, Camerawork

Creative Camera review of Silent Health, Camerawork

Open Mind review of Silent Health, Camerawork, Oct 1990

Mothers’ Pride (1988)

Sunday Telegraph review 2 October 1988 of Spectrum Photo Festival by Grace Robertson

Observer 20 October 1991 review of A Daughter's View which inc Mothers' Pride

more to come…

Other Reviews/Interviews

The Guardian, My Best Shot interview 2011 about Berlin photograph

Dazed and Confused interview about Poll tax riots photograph, 2011

Conversations in Photography: 25 Years of Panos Pictures

[I was interviewed about the image of the Saatchi & Saatchi banner on the Berlin Wall (5 January 1990) for this 2011 Panos video]

Signals Festival, XX Art review in Time Out, Nov 1994

more to follow