Updated: December 2002

"What Roma has been allowed to see over the past three decades as he' explored the neighborhoods and institutions of his native Brooklyn has essentially rendered him the borough's visual poet laureate. Using a handmade camera, Romas has made black-and-white pictures that can be unflinching and sensitive at the same time, both earthbound and spiritual." —Blake Eskin for ARTNews

"Photographer Thomas Roma has worked with some tremendous collaborators...but [he] has a particular soft spot for his latest co-creator, Giancarlo Roma, age 10....Father and son are sitting in the kitchen of their Park Slope row house. Thomas' wide, Anna, a former financial executive, has just brewed some tea and put out a plate of after-school cookies. Her father is photographic master Lee Friedlander, rendering Giancarlo a kind of f-stop royalty." —New York Daily News

"Small and schoolhouse red, the book seems modeled on a reading primer and is presumably meant for children. (It even has an enthusiastic endorsement by Mister Rogers on the back cover.) While Mister Rogers and I hardily recommend this book for kids, adults could do worse than to learn from the way Giancarlo looks at photographs....These photographs require careful observation. As a group, they are mysterious and sad and beautiful." —Photo District News

"Giancarlo T. Roma can join my seminar on photo criticism anytime. This eleven-year old kid has a capacity for slow, close attention to the particulars, and the gift of careful description—as essential for a photo critic as for a photographer. In Show & Tell, he comments on photographs of Brooklyn made by his father between 1973 and 2000.... The photographs are the kind of images that accumulate in the files of a small-camera worker who shoots steadily on the streeets: the minutiae of quotidian life, everyday glimpses and observations. What matters here is the dialogue between those images—and the mind behind them—and the intelligent awareness of someone between the ages of eight and ten or so responding to them." —A.D. Coleman for Photography in New York International

"Show & Tell by photographer Thomas Roma and son, Giancarlo, joins past and present images of the Romas' hometown of Brooklyn with the younger Roma's imaginative interpretations. In pictures of parked cars, overgrown gardens, and backyard pools. the elder Roma's classic ability to rally shared sentiment in a particular photographic moment is coupled with his fifth-grade son's time-intensive looking....With rare grace and the warming gesture of shared familial effort, Show & Tell might serve as a model for collaborative teams to come." —DoubleTake