Brian Wallis is curator at the Walther Collection in Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany and prior to that was chief curator and director of exhibitions at the International Center for Photography (ICP). He is the editor of Democracy: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #5 and If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #6 by Martha Rosler, both published by The New Press.