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.
BFA, Photography, Art Academy of Cincinnati, 2017
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
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
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
2024 101 Lessons in Leading with Laughter
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
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 Dorrell, The 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 Dorrell, No 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
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
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
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
2012 Film Festival Of Columbus
2014 Wexner Film Festival
2014 Phantoscope Film Festival