ESSAYS - Rachel Somerstein is an associate professor of journalism at SUNY New Paltz. She has written for the Washington Post, Guernica, and Wired, among many other publications. Invisible Labor is her first book. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her family.

Essays

“A Photographer’s Wife” The Rumpus

“How to Survive a Vivisection” Longreads

“How Women photographers can expand our view of conflict” Women's Media Center

“We Can't Remember What We Haven't Seen: Media, War, and the Future of Collective Memory” Afterimage

“The Selective Memory of 9/11 Iconography” Guernica

“Reenvisioning Reality” ART + AUCTION