Jamie Ross

Jamie Ross creates and writes about films and exhibitions. The subjects of ongoing investigations include a secret Victorian drag club and natural history museum raided by Los Angeles police in the 1910s, traces of the eugenics movement in city park planning, and the strange case of a historical marine biologist who composed music for bell towers. Jamie works between Montreal and Los Angeles.

Features• March 14, 2025

The Boy in the Bathroom: Tom Burr’s Torrington Project

By Jamie Ross

It was with a frisson of anticipatory delight that I crossed the threshold of Tom Burr’s warehouse in Connecticut, two hours northeast of New…