Press

Orion Magazine. Review by Editor-in-Chief Sumanth Prabhaker of “What I Wanted to Tell You About the Wind.” Editor’s Choice, April 14, 2021.

Northeast Public Radio WAMC. Radio essay by Ralph Gardner Jr. describing a walk we took to a magnificent American Sycamore in the woods behind his Upstate New York house.  November 17, 2018.

BCB Art Gallery, Hudson, NY. Artist’s Talk in conjunction with exhibit, “That Unruly Sun: Interpretations of Shaker Interiors” November 17, 2018.

WGXC Radio, Hudson, NY. Wide-ranging interview with Ellen Thurston and Tom DePietro about everything from the radicalism of the Shakers to Henry Stern’s Golden Retriever (starts 20 minutes into the program). November 8, 2018.

Person, Place, Thing. Podcast interview with Randy Cohen concerning William C. Chanler, the Mount Lebanon Shakers, and the beauty of the contact sheet. On the occasion of the publication of Home Winds. June 18, 2017

gardenista.com. May 10, 2017. Blog Post: “Required Reading: A Mother’s Garden” by Margot Guralnick.

WPKN’s Live Culture with Martha Willette. Joint radio interview with Heather Woods Broderick on the release of our collaborative song and book, Home Winds. April 29, 2017.

The New York Times, August 28, 2015. “At Wave Hill, Photos of New York’s Trees, ‘Living Archives’ of the city.” By Tammy La Gorce.

The Northern Pen, July 25, 2015. “Grandois Hosts 2015 Come Home Year” by Stephen Roberts. Describing my documentation of a reunion in a Newfoundland fishing village.

Adirondack Life. “The Ancients: Lake George’s Ancient Trees.” Article Co-authored with Neil Pederson. May/June 2014 issue.

The Wall Street Journal. June 8, 2014. Urban Gardner, by Ralph Gardner Jr. “Putting Wave Hill in Focus.”

WGCX Radio, Hudson, NY. October, 2013. Interview by Richard Roth on The Passage.

gardenista.com. September 30, 2013. “Required Reading: New York City of Trees by Benjamin Swett,” by Margot Guralnick.

New York Post. July 7, 2013. “My New York,” full-page spread by Doree Lewak, with quotations from me about and photographs of nine favorite trees around the city.

Landscape Architecture Magazine. June 2013. “Trees Through the Lens,” by Amanda Hurley.

NPR National Public Radio. “All Things Considered.” April 30, 2013. “New York: A Concrete Jungle and ‘City of Trees,’ Too.” by Margot Adler.

The New York Times. April 5, 2013.Bookshelf. Review of New York City of Trees by Sam Roberts.

The Wall Street Journal. March 20, 2013. Photo Op. Review of New York City of Trees by the editors.

The New Yorker. March 4, 2013. Profile. “Tree Person,” by Ian Frazier.

Cabinet. Winter 2012/13. Issue 48. “Trees of New York,” article and photographs by Benjamin Swett.