- Motherland: Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma, 2011
- Photographs: The New York Times Magazine, 2011 ed. Kathy Ryan
- Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography, 2011 by Verna Posever Curtis
- New York Magazine, September 26, 2011
- The New Yorker, September 26, 2011
- Aperture: Issue 203, Summer 2011
- Korean Monthly Photo, The Automaton, May 2011
- Photography and Italy, 2011 by Maria Antonella Pelizzari
- Illuminazioni: La Biennale di Venezia. 2011
- The New Yorker, January 11 2010 by Vince Aletti
- Otherworldy: Optical Delusions and Small Realities: Museum of Arts and Design, 2010 by David Revere McFadden
- The New Yorker, December 21 & 28 2009
- The New York Times Book Review, Nonfiction Chronicle, December 13 2009 by Marc Tracy
- PDN, Exposures, December 2009, edited by Conor Risch
- The Sunday Times Magazine, Spectrum, November 15 2009
- Harper's Magazine, Portfolio, Winter Stories, November 2009, Art Director Stacey D. Clarkson
- Modern Painters, The Invented Worlds of Paolo Ventura, April 2009 by Reuel Golden
- A Invencao de um Mundo: Colecao da Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris, 2009
- Kaleidoscope d'Italie: Regard sur la photographie, l'art et le film d'auteur italiens des annees 50 a nos jours, 2009
- Un'autentica bugia: La fotografia, il vero, il faso, 2009 by Michele Smargiassi
- Through the Lens: Photography from the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 2009 by Denise Most Gerson
- Art in America, Winter Stories, November 2008 by Jean Dykstra
- Liberation, Prises de guerre, July 21 2008
- Photonews, Winter Stories, June 2008 by Anna Gripp
- The New Yorker, Paolo Ventura, April 7 2008 by Vince Aletti
- Photograph, About the Cover, March/April 2008 by Lyle Rexer
- L'Espresso, Il Cinema in un Clic, March 2007 by Alessandra Mammi
- Graphis Photography Annual 2007, Q And A with Paolo Ventura, Fall 2006 by Anna Carnick
- Flair, Le Storie in una Scatola, April 2007 by Laura Incardona
- La Repubblica, C'era una volta la Guerra, April 2 2006 by Michele Smargiassi
- PDN, Blurring fiction and reality, May 2006 by Antony Lasala
- The New Yorker, War Souvenir, May 2006 by Vince Aletti
- New York Sun, A living fiction, inspired by memories, May 2006 by Aileen Torres
- Stop Smiling, Paolo Ventura Lets Loose the Dolls of War, August 2006 by Michael Helke
- Images Magazine, Tableaux de guerre, Sept/Oct 2006 by Sophie Bernard
- Il Foglio, Fotografo Di Ventura, October 21 2006 by Sandro Fusina
- Corriere Della Sera, In tempo di guerra si stava cosi, October 19 2006 by Gianluigi Colin
- La Repubblica, Scene di vita quotidiana a Milano sotto le bombe, Oct 21 2006 by Roberto Mutti
- Aperture, War Souvenir, Fall 2005 by Francine Prose