Max Pinckers, State of Emergency
Text by Loring Knoblauch, Collector Daily, 8 August, 2024
State of Emergency by Max Pinckers et al.
Text by Josh Lustig, FT Weekend Magazine, 25 May 2024
Photobook Review: State of Emergency by Max Pinckers et al.
Text by Camilla Marrese, PhMuseum, April 2024
‘Shining a light on the blind spots’: new book seeks to provide clearer picture of Mau Mau uprising
Text by Simon Bainbridge, The Art Newspaper, April 2024
About ‘State of Emergency’
Text by Hans Theys, State of Emergency, self-published by Max Pinckers, March 2024
English and Swahili
Where Is Mau Mau History Now?
Text by Rose Miyonga, State of Emergency, self-published by Max Pinckers, March 2024
English and Swahili
Max Pinckers & Thomas Sauvin – The Future Without You
Text by Sunil Shah, American Suburb X, January 2024
Max Pinckers’s Spectacular World Cup
Text by Sam Knight, The New Yorker Photo Booth, December 2022
Max Pinckers: Framed by the News
Text by Stefan Vanthuyne, Moving Through the Space of the Picture and the Page:
The Photobook as an Artistic and Architectural Medium, APE, Belgium, June 2022
A következő észak-koreai képek mindegyike attól igaz, hogy hamis
Szöveg: Barakonyi Szabolcs, Telex, Magyarország, 2022. január 8.
Een speculatief vat vol verhalen – Een gesprek met Max Pinckers
Tekst door Jasper Delva, Metropolis M, Nederland, 6 januari 2022
‘We geloven niet wat we zien, we zien wat we geloven’
Recensie door Veerle Vanden Bosch, De Standaard Weekblad, 27 november 2021
The Weight of Photographs
About all the photo series of Max Pinckers
Text by Hans Theys, Max Pinckers, Hannibal Books, Belgium, 2021
English, Dutch and French
Schuldgevoelens leiden tot niks
Gesprek met David Linx over de fotoreeks Unhistories van Max Pinckers
Tekst door Hans Theys, HART, Belgium, 1 december 2021
Fully Automated Award-Winning Photography
Text by Marco De Mutiis,
NUMMER 10: Post-Photography, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Hochschule Luzern), 2021
Современные документальные практики. Макс Пинкерс: «На грани реальности и вымысла»
Текст Евгения Мельникова, впервые опубликовано в, Photographer.ru, Россия, ноябрь 2020 г.
Found in Translation. Spielräume des Überschusses im Dokumentarischen
Text von Anna Stemmler,
image/con/text: Documentary Practices Between Journalism, Art and Activism,
Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 2020
Karen Fromm am Margins of Excess
Karen Fromm im Gespräch mit Massimo Maio,
Deutschlandfunk Kultur: Kompressor, Deutschland, 27 August 2020
环形闪光灯和后真相
傅尔得(Joanna Fu)访谈, CityZine Magazine, China, September 2020
《红墨水》:平壤之行——用日常超越日常
李灵凯(LingkaiLi)撰写, The Paper, China, July 2020
Margins of Excess : 前言
Lu Zhao撰写, WU Space, China, June 2020
Yoyo: On a photograph by Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn
Text by Hans Theys, HART, Belgium, 23 May 2020
English and Dutch
Fiction as a Visual Strategy in the Photobook: How Contemporary Photographers
Challenge the Documentary Genre Through the Printed Page
Text by Stefan Vanthuyne, When Fact Is Fiction: Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era,
edited by Nele Wynants, Valiz, Amsterdam, 2019
A New Visual Language: Conversation with Max Pinckers
Text by Hans Theys, Form Vision: Artists on Art, Hans Theys, Tornado Editions, 2019
English, Dutch and French
Letter from Hans Theys to Max Pinckers and Victoria Gonzalez-Figueras
Text by Hans Theys, Scotomia, Hans Theys, Tornado Editions, 2019
English, Dutch and French
아나콘다가 감겨있는 샹들리에
텍스트 에반 오스노스, Red Ink, Korean edition, FOTASIA publishers, October 2019
Illusory Narratives
Interview with Sarah Allen (assistant curator Tate Modern), Aesthetica Magazine, September 2019
Book Review: The Only Thing You Can’t Get Is Red Ink
Text by Cat Lachowskyj, LensCulture, July 2019
A Manifesto: An Invitation from The School of Speculative Documentary
Text by An van Dienderen, Michiel De Cleene, Max Pinckers & Thomas Bellinck, May 2019
Margins of Excess: Stefan Vanthuyne on Max Pinckers
Text by Stefan Vanthuyne, The PhotoBook Review, Aperture Foundation, Spring 2019
Max Pinckers, Red Ink
Text by Loring Knoblauch, Collector Daily, February 2019
Red Ink: An Interview with Max Pinckers
Text by Sarah Sunday, Musée Magazine, January 2019
Hopen op de goden: Max Pinckers
Television documentary on the making of Margins of Excess, Canvas, Belgium, 2018
Max Pinckers: Margins of Excess
Text by Lisa Stein, 1000 Words - 10 Year anniversary print edition, November 2018
Margins of Excess
Interview with Cat Lachowskyj, LensCulture, November 2018
The Missing Ink
Text by Slavoj Žižek, Red Ink, self-published by Max Pinckers, Brussels, October 2018
Pyongyang's Anaconda in the Chandelier
Text by Evan Osnos, Red Ink, self-published by Max Pinckers, Brussels, October 2018
Margins of Excess
Text by Fatoş Üstek, Camera Austria International, September 2018
Max Pinckers Interview: On Speculative Documentary
Interview with Sunil Shah, American Suburb X, 28 July 2018
Billboard Series #12: Max Pinckers
Text by Thomas Caron / artlead, Billboard Series catalogue, June, 2018
Private detectives and helium balloons: photographer Max Pinckers steps into five imagined realities
Text by Ruby Boddington, It's Nice That, 26 June 2018
Margins of Excess
Text by Matthew Ponsford, British Journal of Photography, UK, June 2018
Max Pinckers, Margins of Excess
Text by Olga Yatskevich, Collector Daily, USA, 7 June 2018
The camera that produces perfect pictures
Interview with Kayle Crosson, World Press Photo Witness, 31 May 2018
Max Pinckers: Post-Truth
Text by Kurt Snoekx, BRUZZ, 10 February 2018
Max Pinckers
Text by Kurt Snoekx, BRUZZ, 30 December 2017
Margins of Excess
Text by Hans Theys, Montagne de Miel, 11 November 2017
Triomphe des lieux communs: À propos de l’ouvrage photo « Margins of Excess » de Max Pinckers
Texte par Hans Theys, Montagne de Miel, 11 novembre 2017
Trophy Camera: A New Fear of Organizing Principals
Text by Brad Feuerhelm, American Suburb X, September 2017
Playing Perfectly: On Outsourcing Creation to Machines
Text by Katherine Oktober Matthews, GUP Magazine, The Netherlands, August 2017
An Introduction. Three Thoughts on ‘Controversy’
Text by Lars Kwakkenbos, Controversy, Lyre Press, Brussels, August 2017
What We See in a Picture is What We Bring to It
Text by Hans Durrer, Controversy, Lyre Press, Brussels, August 2017
Book: Lotus by Max Pinckers and Quinten de Bruyn
Text by Tom Seymour, British Journal of Photography, UK, July 2017
This Camera Silently Judges Your Photos Against The World’s Best
Text by Diana Budds, Co.Design, May 2017
Max Pinckers: "Meine Arbeit ist auch ein Komme Medium selbst"
Interview mit Manfred Zollner, fotoMAGAZIN, Deutschland, April 2017
Een nieuwe definitie van documentaire fotografie: Het werk van Max Pinckers
Text by Sofie Crabbé, Ons Erfdeel, nr. 1, Belgium, February 2017
Max Pinckers – the world as stage of appearances
Text by Hoda Afshar, Der Greif blog, 13 December 2016
Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn, Lotus
Text by Olga Yatskevich, Collector Daily, USA, December 2016
Yokota’s and Pinckers’ Floating Worlds
Text by Colin Pantall, Max Pinckers & Daisuke Yokota exhibition catalogue,
Rorhof & Lyre Press, Foto-Forum, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, July 2016
Verticalità nipponica e orizzontalità giapponese: Daisuke Yokota e Max Pinckers al foto-forum
Testo di Allegra Baggio Corradi, Franzmagazine, Italia, giugno 2016
Truths and Fictions in Everyday Japan
Text by Cassidy Paul, TIME LightBox, April 2016
From the Outside In
Text by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Aperture Blog, March 2016
Max Pinckers: A New Approach To Documentary Photography
Text by Sara Gonçalves, The Culture Trip, March 2016
European Eyes
Text by Munemasa Takahasi, European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today vol.17, Japan, September 2015
Beelden voor een geschiedenis:
Een gesprek met Max Pinckers en Michiel Burger
Text by Hans Theys, Young Belgian Art Prize exhibition catalogue,
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts, Belgium, March 2015
Max Pinckers
Tekst door Geert Zagers, Focus Knack, België, augustus 2015
Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty
Text by Sonia Faleiro, Granta Magazine, UK, January 2015
A Double Sided Love
Text by Francesca Orsi, Yet Magazine, July 2015
Onze Lieve Vrouw van de Bloemen
Text by Hans Theys, Over Vorm. Het Vervolg, Tornado Editions, België, 2014
Dubbelinterview Max Pinckers en Vincent Delbrouck
Tekst door Lise Lotte ten Voorde, PF Magazine, Nederland, december 2014
India’s Love Commandos – and the runaway couples they protect
Text by Sean O’Hagan, The Guardian, UK, October 2014
At First Sight: A photographic chronicle of love in India today
Text by Sukruti Staneley, The Caravan, India, August 2014
Book Review: Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty
Text by Shilpa Vijayakrishnan, Tasveer Journal, India, July 2014
Photographs as Poems
Text by Hans Theys, Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty,
self-published by Max Pinckers, Brussels, May 2014
Wunderkammer: Max Pinckers
Text by Kurt Snoekx, Agenda Magazine, Belgium, May 2014
Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty
Book review by Stefan Vanthuyne, Knack Focus, Belgium, April 2014
Aperture Portfolio Prize 2014: Runner-up Max Pinckers
Text by Paula Kupfer, Aperture Foundation NY, March 2014
Kunstenaarspagina in H ART
Text by Max Pinckers, H ART #121, Belgium, January 2014
Love, Honour & Disobey
Text by Colin Pantall, British Journal of Photography magazine, UK, October 2013
Lauréat du Prix photographique Ville de Levallois 2013
Texte par Paul Frèches, Photo Levallois exhibition catalogue, France, octobre 2013
The Fourth Wall. An interview with Max Pinckers
Interview with Taco Hidde Bakker, Foam Magazine, September 2013
File 01 | Max Pinckers
Text by Charlotte Cotton, IMA Magazine Vol. 5, Japan, Autumn 2013
Book Review: Max Pinckers' Masala Mix
The Fourth Wall reviewed by Colin Pantall, photo-eye blog, July 2013
Ones to Watch: Max Pinckers
Text by Simon Bainbridge, British Journal of Photography magazine, UK, January 2013
Max Pinckers & Michiel Burger
Text by Laura van Grinsven, Mamihlapinatapai: A look shared by two people, exhibition catalogue,
Flemish Arts Centre De Brakke Grond, The Netherlands, October 2012
Harmonica-like Spaces
Text by Hans Theys, .tiff magazine, FotoMuseum Antwerp (FoMu), Belgium, March 2012
Yoyo
Tekst door Hans Theys, M HKAzine #11, België, april 2012
Focus. Een blik op 100 kunstenaars, Hans Theys, België, 2012
Documentairefotografie
Interview door Mirjam van der Linden met Max Pinckers, (Re): TILT catalogus,
De Brakke Grond, Nederland, mei 2011
Our Ladies of the Flowers
Text by Hans Theys, Lotus, self-published by Max Pinckers & Quinten De Bruyn,
Brussels, May 2011 (revised in 2016)
English and Dutch