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BOOKS

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BOOKS

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PHOTO ESSAYS

Street Atmospheres: Photographing Worlds-in-the-Making in Jakarta, Indonesia, in City & Society 31(1): e70025, 2026.

Alien Domesticity: Representing Home During a Pandemic, in Visual Communication 22(1): 13-26, 2023.

Smudged Windows: Scenes from Home During a Pandemic, in Visual Studies 36(2): 85-105, 2021.

The Philadelphia Look: Exploring Urban Place-Making through Street Style Photography, in City & Society: 32(2): 345-367, 2020.

Post No Bill: The Transience of New York City Street Style, in Fashion Studies 1(1): 1-20, 2018.

Ethnography and Street Photography: Two Arts of Serendipity, in Anthropology News, March 10, 2017

The Continuous Labor of Fashion, in Anthropology News, September/October 2017: 10-13.

What Does a Fashion Influencer Look Like? Portraits of the Instafamous, in Fashion, Style, and Popular Culture 4(3): 341-364, 2017.

The Affective Lens, in Anthropology & Humanism 42(2): 163-179, 2017.

Internet Famous in Real Life: Becoming a Street Style Star at New York Fashion Week, in Cultural Anthropology 31(2) online edition: 2016.

Shooting Street Style in Indonesia: A Photo Essay, in Clothing Cultures 1(1): 59-81, 2013.

ARTICLES

Opaque Encounters: Keeping the Strange Strange in Ethnographic Field Photography, in Visual Anthropology Review 42(2): e70018, 2026.

Translating Sustainability into Somatic Experience: Renderings of Eco-Cities in Southeast Asia, co-authored with Jenny Chio, in Signs & Society 13(3): 412-430, 2025.

Shadow Worlding: Chasing Light in Yogyakarta, in American Anthropologist 124: 399-416, 2022.

Intimate Alienation: Street Photography as a Mediation of Distance, in Photographies 14(2): 287-306, 2021.

The Camera and the Anthropologist: Reflections on Photographic Agency, in Visual Anthropology 32(1):76-96, 2019.

Unbecoming: The Aftereffects of Autoethnography, in Ethnography, 20 (2): 245-262, 2019.

Street Style Geographies: Re-Mapping the Fashion Blogipelago, in International Journal of Fashion Studies 5(2): 289-308, 2018.

Indonesian Fashion Blogs: On the Promotional Subject of Personal Style, in Fashion Theory 17(1): 55-76, 2013.

Material Interventions: Indonesian DIY Fashion and the Regime of the Global Brand, in Cultural Anthropology 28(1): 127-143, 2013.

Exemplary Centers and Musical Elsewheres: Performing Authenticity and Autonomy in Indonesian Indie Music, in Asian Music 44(2): 95-114, 2013.

Third World No More: Re-Branding Indonesian Streetwear, in Fashion Practice 5(2): 203-228, 2013.

Designer Vandalism: Indonesian Indie Fashion and the Cultural Practice of Cut ’n’ Paste in Visual Anthropology Review 26(1): 1-16, 2010.

Dislocating Sounds: The Deterritorialization of Indonesian Indie Pop, in Cultural Anthropology 24(2): 246-279, 2009.

Re-Producing Pop: The Ambivalent Aesthetics of a Contemporary Dance Music, in International Journal of Cultural Studies 9(2): 167-187, 2006.

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