Based in Columbus, Ohio.

tayloradorrell@gmail.com

Taylor Dorrell is a freelance writer and photographer, contributing writer at the Cleveland Review of Books, reporter at the Columbus Free Press, columnist at Matter News, and an organizer in the National Writers Union.


Education

BFA, Photography, Art Academy of Cincinnati, 2017


Recent Work

2024 America's plastic catastrophe, Business Insider

2024 How Britain Made Paul Robeson a Socialist, Tribune Magazine

2023 Visiting Vonnegut’s Indianapolis, Literary Hub

2023 The Midwest Regionalism of Hanif Abdurraqib, Cleveland Review of Books

2023 The looming crisis that's going to crush homeowners from coast to coast, Insider

2023 The Kia Boys will Steal your Car for Clout, The Verge

2023 Get Ready: More Blackouts are Coming, Business Insider

2023 The Chip War Comes Home, Business Insider

Complete CV

Written Articles

2024 Tracing the fascist roots of the Nazi demonstration in the Short North, Matter News

2024 On Communist Letters, Substack

2024 The biggest college football rivalry in central Ohio, Matter News

2024 Cat conspiracies and couches: On JD Vance, regionalism and the Ohio grift, Matter News

2024 The Power Grid Is Not Prepared For Climate Change Threats, Outrider

2024 Another Shade of Red: A Report from the 2024 Communist Party National Convention, Middle West Review 

2024 United States of Bitcoin, Business Insider

2024 Columbus’ Photo Flood: Recent months give rise to trio of local photo books, Matter News

2024 Watching Communist movies at the Wex, Matter News

2024 Columbus has taken steps to address the housing crisis. It’s not enough, Matter News

2024 Paul Robeson in the Soviet Union, Picturing Black History

2024 Finding meaning in Ohio’s solar anomalies, Matter News

2024 Pro-Palestine movement carries on amid Ohio State repression, Matter News

2024 America's plastic catastrophe, Business Insider

2024 Thurber in Paris, Substack

2024 How Britain Made Paul Robeson a Socialist, Tribune Magazine

2024 Israel Bonds’ Best Friend, Franklin County Treasurer Cheryl Brooks Sullivan, Columbus Free Press

2024 Twenty One Pilots as a symptom of suburbia, Matter News

2024 When Pablo Picasso Saved Pablo Neruda, Substack

2024 Emails Show Franklin County Treasurer Cheryl Brooks Sullivan Stands in “Solidarity” with Israel After Bombing of Civilians, Columbus Free Press

2024 Controversial Ohio State power plant incurs delays, rising costs, Matter News

2024 The Fetish of Being Outside, Substack

2024 Emails Show Franklin County Treasurer Cheryl Brooks Sullivan Stands in “Solidarity” with Israel After Bombing of Civilians, Columbus Free Press

2024 Ohio Literature and the Cultural Assault on the Midwest, Substack

2024 The Composers’ Collective, People's World

2024 The Heart of it All: A Report from the Ohio State Fair, Substack

2024 Franklin County ups Israel investments as calls for ceasefire grow, Matter News

2023 The second death of Spaghetti Warehouse, Matter News

2023 Columbus’ progressive Jewish community calls for a cease-fire, Matter News

2023 Franklin County bought $2.5 million in Israel Bonds after October 7, 2023, Free Press

2023 Recalling the real Mark Twain, Matter News

2023 Visiting Vonnegut’s Indianapolis, Literary Hub

2023 Blacklisted Communist Writer Albert Maltz’s Last Novel Will Finally Be Published in the US, Jacobin

2023 A Voice Without Borders: How Paul Robeson sang to 35,000 Canadians without crossing the border, Picturing Black History

2023 Writers Cannot Be Passive, Medium

2023 Meridel Le Sueur’s ‘Proletarian Literature and the Middle West,' People's World

2023 Columbus activists rally in support of Palestinians, Matter News

2023 Wexner Center cancels panel event featuring Palestinian artist, Matter News

2023 The Midwest Regionalism of Hanif Abdurraqib, Cleveland Review of Books

2023 Vivek Ramaswamy and the new Cold War taking root in Columbus, Matter News

2023 How Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus Broke the Hollywood Blacklists, Jacobin

2023 The looming crisis that's going to crush homeowners from coast to coast, Insider

2023 Remembering the Peekskill riots of 1949, Times Union

2023 Langston Hughes’ Radical Ohio Youth, Belt Magazine

2023 The Need for Aged Buildings: An ode to Colin’s Coffee, Matter News

2023 Anarchism vs. Marxism: The politics of Boots Riley’s ‘I’m a Virgo’, People's World

2023 Republicans Stage Attack on Ohio’s Universities, Academic Freedom, Matter News

2023 Columbus is an Inadequate Climate Refuge, Matter News

2023 The Kia Boys will Steal your Car for Clout, The Verge

2023 Mass Shooting Transforms Short North into Police Surveillance Zone, Matter News

2023 Columbus Already has an Identity and it's Not Pretty, Matter News

2023 A Big Day for Labor in Columbus, Columbus Free Press

2023 The Columbus Woman who Beat the Blacklists, Matter News

2023 Get Ready: More Blackouts are Coming, Business Insider

2023 The politics of gentrification architecture, Matter News

2023 Michael Gold: Red Scare Victim, JSTOR Daily

2023 The Chip War Comes Home, Business Insider

2022 Columbus needs to rethink its approach to affordable housing, Matter News

2022 Interview with Labor Activist Beatrice Lumpkin, Shondaland

2022 Right-wing Silicon Valley hijacking Ohio’s future, Matter News

2022 The Ohio art world financiers backing J.D. Vance and other Trump Republicans, People's World

2022 Remembering ‘America’s Most Hated Critic’, Tribune Magazine

2022 The FBI Monitored Marilyn Monroe Over Suspected Communist Ties, Teen Vogue

2022 A Bolshevik Poet in the Midwest, Jacobin

2022 OSU's Cozy Relationship with Fossil Fuel Giant Marathon Exposes Climate Hypocrisy, Columbus Free Press

2022 Solarjunk: Transforming Landfills into Solar Farms, The Prepared

2022 The Radical American Poet, Langston Hughes: Wandering Through Cleveland, the USSR, and Elsewhere, Medium

2022 The Wild Life of William Morgan, Yanqui Comandante Turned Cuban Counterrevolutionary, Jacobin

2022 The Radical American Poet, Langston Hughes: Wandering Through Cleveland, the USSR, and Elsewhere, Medium

2022 A report from inside the Manchin Blockade, People's World

2022 Westerville Starbucks Demands Union Recognition, Columbus Free Press

2022 Unionizing downtown Starbucks gets community support as management retaliates, Columbus Free Press

2022 Downtown Columbus Starbucks to Unionize, Columbus Free Press

2022 The Right Wing Cult Behind Shen Yun, Columbus Free Press

2022 The Cold War Comes to Columbus, Columbus Free Press

2021 An Ohio College Privatized Its Energy and Built a Gas Plant on Campus, Outraging Students, In These Times

2021 Is OSU Campus Safe? Nazis use OSU Campus as a Propaganda Platform, Columbus Free Press

2021 Morgan Harper Denounces New Ohio Abortion Bill and Tim Ryan's Pro-Life Record, Columbus Free Press

2021 How Chevron Imprisoned Environmental Lawyer Steven Donziger, People's World, Morning Star

2021 Sunrise Columbus Endorses Matthew Meade in Race Against Joyce Beatty, Columbus Free Press

2021 Worthington Libraries Workers Voting on Unionizing, Columbus Free Press

2021 Four Month Contract Deadlock Intensifies Between Zanesville Teachers and Board, Columbus Capital

2021 Lima Workers Fighting to Keep 3,000 Jobs for Ohioans, Columbus Capital

2021 J.D. Vance markets himself as ‘Hillbilly’ Trump, but don’t laugh too quickly, People's World

2021 Ohio Senate Sneaks Discriminatory LGTBQ+ Clause Into State Budget, Columbus Free Press

2021 Ohio Taxpayers Invest Most in Israel's "Apartheid Regime", Columbus Free Press

2021 No, Natural Gas isn't "Clean Energy", Columbus Free Press

2021 Can Democratic Socialists Help Turn Ohio into a Different Kind of Red?, Columbus Free Press

2021 FBI Warns of Armed Rallies While Trump Supporters say it's a FBI "Trap", Columbus Free Press

2020 Why did Deputy Jason Meade kill Casey Goodson Jr.?, Columbus Free Press

2020 Goodson Shooting Exposes City's Double Standards, Columbus Free Press

2020 Biden's "Corporate Cabinet" Inspires Progressives to Keep Building, Columbus Free Press

2020 Watergate, Trump and Ohio's Unpredictable Voters, Columbus Capital

2020 What has Trump done for Ohio?, Columbus Free Press

2020 Get in the Van: The Federal and Local Assault on Protests, Columbus Capital

2020 Racism or ‘Municipal Fine Farming’? Both are behind over-policing, Columbus Free Press

2020 Time to Throw Away all of the "Bad Apples" Still Working for Columbus Police, Columbus Free Press

2020 Who are Black Freedom? Some activists tell group 'don't speak for me', Columbus Free Press


Written Essays

2024 Heaven Divided: Fear and Loathing in West Germany, Substack

2024 Election Year with Lenin, Substack

2023 The Midwest Regionalism of Hanif Abdurraqib, Cleveland Review of Books

2023 Anarchism vs. Marxism: The politics of Boots Riley’s ‘I’m a Virgo’, People's World

2023 The Rapidly Changing Midwestern City of Columbus, Ohio, Then There Was Us

2023 The Third American Renaissance: Proletarian Realism and the Fracturing of Capitalist Realism, Trigger

2022 Re-Sparking Spatial Imagination in the Great Lakes Megaregion, Cleveland Review of Books

2022 The Real Kent State Massacre Memorial, Columbus Capital

2022 Wexner’s World: The Spatial Impact of Columbus’ Billionaire, Columbus Capital

2022 The Deflation of Spatial Imagination: On Columbus' Future in "Ready Player One & Two", Cleveland Review of Books

2021 Post-Human Capitalism and Revolution: Detroit and Blade Runner 2049, Neon Dystopia

2021 A Critique of Everyday Life: The Fetishism of New Color Photography, Trigger

2021 On Columbus' Dystopian 60 Minutes Piece, Columbus Capital

2021 The Conservatism of Ohio Gov. Jim Rhodes, 20 Years After His Death, Columbus Capital

2021 Farce as Tragedy, Giphantie Journal

2020 Finding the 'Right to the City' During a Pandemic, Columbus Capital

2020 White Fences: Plantations and Postmodern Suburbia, Pastiche Journal

2020 Media Dreams of 9/11, Giphantie Journal

2020 Shelter in Haste: A Spatial Revolution, Trigger

2020 Cybernetic Desire: Terry Ratzlaff Feature, Giphantie Journal

2020 The Phantoms of Russia [Lacan and Ideology]: Danila Tkachenko Feature, Giphantie Journal

2020 Specters of Aura, Giphantie Journal

2020 Photographing Neoliberalism in the Thatcher Era: Anna Fox Feature and Interview, Giphantie Journal

2020 The End of Capitalism[?]: Kata Geibl Feature, Giphantie Journal

2020 The Photographic Veil: Jean Baudrillard's Photographs and Writing on Photograph, Giphantie Journal

2019 Street Photography and Non-Place, Giphantie Journal

2019 Burnout Syndrome: Mark Fisher From the Future, Pastiche Journal


Books/Anthologies

2024 101 Lessons in Leading with Laughter


Photo Essays

2018 Gas Stations in Manhattan, Medium

2018 Guns in Manhattan: A Look Inside Manhattan’s Underground Shooting Range, Medium

2017 A U.S. Citizen's Visual Travel Guide to Cuba, The Rooster

2016 Active Shooter Defense Course, Medium

2016 A Visit to 'Ark Encounter', Where Creationism and Dinosaurs Collide, Motherboard 

2016 Photo Essay: A Day Outside the RNC, Medium

2016 On Tour With Montana of 300, Collaboration with Cody Perkins, Medium

2016 Photos of a Cincinnati Neighborhood One Year After an Infamous Police Shooting, VICE

2015 Kentucky's Creation Museum, Motherboard


Online Photo Features, Assignments, and Interviews

2024 Artists Q&A: Taylor Dorrell and Cody Perkins, Art Academy of Cincinnati

2023 The Rapidly Changing Midwestern City of Columbus, Ohio, Then There Was Us

2022 The Land Back Movement Takes Roots in Ohio, Sierra Magazine

2020 Parallax feature, Broad Magazine

2019 White Fences feature, British Journal of Photography

2018 Swing State feature and interview, Then There Was Us

2018 Fourth Street feature and interview, The Visual Voices

2018 What Makes a Photo Essay Unforgettable?, Format

2018 15 Landscape and Nature Photographers We Found on Format, The Archive Collective

2017 Interview, Red Cabin

2017 Fourth Street Feature, Trip Magazine

2017 Fourth Street Feature, Aye Magazine

2017 The controversial relationship between guns and America: Photos of a Cincinnati Neighborhood, C41 Magazine

2017 Photographer Spotlight August, Format

2017 The Heroin Business Is Booming in America, Bloomberg Businessweek

2017 Swing State feature and interview, Huck Magazine

2017 Gentrification, Guns, and America by Taylor DorrellThe Rooster

2016 Brothers feature, Thisispaper Mag

2016 Swing State feature and interview, Aint-Bad Magazine

2016 RNC, The Commission 

2016 Memories Portrait: Taylor Dorrell, Young Offenders

2016 Brothers feature, Float Magazine

2016 Drag Strip Feature, Edge of Humanity

2016 Brothers Feature, Aint-Bad Magazine

2015 Fresh Photographs From Taylor DorrellNo Culture Icons

2015 Wistful Photos Capture a Band of Brothers on the Verge of Adulthood, Feature Shoot

2015 Brothers Feature, Positive Magazine

2015 Interview with Taylor Dorrell, ND Magazine

2015 A Brief Interview with Taylor Dorrell, Strant Mag

2015 Brothers Feature, 10 Journal

2015 Photography Recommends, YMC Blog



Group Exhibits

2024 Contested Ground, FotoFocus, Cincinnati, Ohio

2018 This is an Art Show, 352 E 85th, New York, New York 

2017 Thread Count, Der Greif, Unseen, Amsterdam

2017 Unrest, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

2016 Forward>Backward, Gallery S452, Cincinnati, Ohio

2016 Undergrounded, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

2016 Dual Complex, Pique Gallery, Covington, Kentucky

2016 Artists' Books, Mercantile Library, Cincinnati, Ohio

2016 The Goods, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

2016 Deep End, Wave Pool, Cincinnati, Ohio

2016 Over the Influence, Exposure 13, Cincinnati, Ohio

2016 Show and Tell, Buddy's Place, Cincinnati, Ohio

2015 Correlation, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

2015 One, Red Door Project, Cincinnati, Ohio

2014 <3.49>,Childlaw Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

2014 Art Academy of Cincinnati - Graduate & Student Works, Westheimer Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

2014 Sharonville Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

2014 It Came From Cleveland, Shrewdness Of Apes, Cincinnati, Ohio

2013 Rock Paper Scissors, Cincinnati, Ohio


Grants, Residencies, & Awards

2024 Art Academy of Cincinnati Alumni Grant

2022 Public Records Grant Fund, The Gumshoe Group

2022 Greater Columbus Arts Council Support for Professional Artists: Individuals grant

2020 Hirsch Residency, OH

2017 Nominated for the 2017 AICUO Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts

2017 Winner of Helms Trust Awards, Art Academy of Cincinnati


Instagram Takeovers

2018 Chrono Collective

2018 Splash and Grab takeover

2017 Instagram Takeover, Pomegranate Press

2017 Instagram Takeover, Float Magazine 

2015 Brothers Instagram Takeover, Trip Mag

2015 Instagram Takeover, Splash & Grab


Film Festivals 

2012 Film Festival Of Columbus

2014 Wexner Film Festival

2014 Phantoscope Film Festival


Using Format