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)
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
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
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