The New Yorker, Photobooth. "Seeing the Subway", 2/26/13
Esquire Magazine Russia. "Steinway", 2/25/13
Modem. "Modem Europe", January 2013
Urban Omnibus. "Disappearing Histories: A Conversation with Christopher Payne", 10/3/12
Untapped Cities. "Inside the Steinway Piano Factory by Christopher Payne", 9/18/12
The Wall Street Journal. "Chaos vs. a World of Harmony", 9/7/12
Elle. "Christopher Payne Exhibits Photos from Steinway Piano Factory", 7/20/12
The New Yorker. "The Making of a Steinway Piano", 7/19/12
Design Bureau. "Photographing Mental Asylums and Textile Factories", 6/5/12
The New York Times Magazine. "The Steinway Way", 4/27/12
Architecture Review Asia Pacific. “Pocket Utopias”, March/April 2012
The Atlantic. "Inside the Haunting World of 19th Century Mental Hospitals", 9/9/11
National Public Radio,The Picture Show. "America's Asylums in Photographs", 9/4/11
TLS-Times Literary Supplement. Book Review, 4/22/11(PDF)
Frieze Magazine. Book Review, April 2011(PDF)
World Health Design.Book Review, April 2011(PDF)
The Athens News. Exhibit Review, 11/22/10
Guernica Magazine. Photo Essay, October 2010
The Wall Street Journal, Speakeasy. Lecture Review, 10/1/10
Afterimage Magazine. "Sanctuary or Prison?", Vol. 38, Issue 2, Sept/Oct 2010 (PDF)
Scope Magazine. Book Review, September 2010 (PDF)
The Post, Ohio University. Interview, 9/14/10
American Photo Magazine. "Falling Apart", Sept/Oct 2010 (PDF)
Zoom Magazine. Book Review, May/June 2010 (PDF)
The Architect's Newspaper. Exhibit Review, 5/14/10
The New York Times. Exhibit/Book Review, 5/13/10
Boston Globe. "The Photographic Art of Insane Asylums", 4/2/10
BOMB. Book Review, Spring 2010 (PDF)
The Atlantic. Book Review and Interview, April 2010
The Pennsylvania Gazette. "Architecture of Madness", March/April 2010
APA PsycCRITIQUES. "Psychiatry's Disappearing Past", 2/10/10, Vol. 55, Release 6, Article 4 (PDF)
New Statesman. Book Review, 2/4/10
New Humanist. Book Review, January/February 2010
Columbia Magazine, "Ghosts", Winter 2009
The New York Times. "Showcase: Emptied but Still Secret", 11/23/09
The New York Times. "The Lost World of Creedmoor Hospital", 11/12/09
Scientific American Mind. Book Review, 11/09
Omnivoracious. "Amazon’s Best Books of the Year", 10/25/09
Boston Globe. "Getting Inside State Mental Hospitals", 10/25/09
Preservation Magazine. "A Terrible Thing To Waste", 10/12/09
Dwell Magazine. "Asylum by Christopher Payne", 10/1/09
The New York Review of Books. "The Lost Virtues of the Asylum", 9/24/09
The New Republic. "Ruins of the Asylum", 9/23/09
The New Yorker, The Book Bench. "Asylum: A Photo Essay", 9/11/09
Booklist. “Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals”, 9/1/09
The New York Times, Book Review. "Asylum", 8/30/09 (PDF)
Print Magazine. "The Last Run". 8/08 (PDF)
The Architect’s Newspaper. "Lost City in the Woods". 4/08 (PDF)
Architectural Record. "Christopher Payne: Documenting before their demise". 4/06
Psychiatric News. "Rational Buildings Designed to Calm the Disturbed Mind", 9/05 (PDF)
ART News. "Power Elite", 5/03 (PDF)
AJ [Architect’s Journal]. “New York’s Forgotten Substations”, 12/2/02
The New York Times. "Vanishing Behemoths", 10/13/02 (PDF)