"Pleasures and Terrors of Kissing" has gained a substantial international audience from its online presence on The New York Times Lens Blog for Photography, Video and Visual Journalism, Slate, The Online Photographer, Juxtapoz Art+Culture, Feature Shoot, Fraction Magazine, Perdiz Magazine (Spain), L'Oeil de la Photographie (France), Workshopx (Poland) and fototazo (Colombia), through publication in Love and Desire: Photoworks, Max Joseph Magazine (Germany), and Esquire Russia and exhibitions at Visual Studies Workshop, The Kiss in Photography (England) and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. 

"Interior Design" enjoys an international audience through publication in Sports Illustrated: The Golf Book, Esquire Russia, Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age and Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (Germany) and online at Wired.com, Gizmodo, PetaPixel, Lenscratch, Magazinu Proc ne (Czech Republic) and Daily Mail.com, among many others.

Photographs and commentary about "12 Nazi Concentration Camps" have been shared online on Hyperallergic, Slate, Feature Shoot, Lenscratch, AEQAI, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, L'Oeil de la Photographie (France), Actual Colors May Vary (Germany), Workshopx (Poland), Cultura Colectiva (Spain), Shpilman Institute of Photogaphy (Israel) and Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten (Denmark).  

"12 Nazi Concentration Camps" has been included in publications such as Artforum, Arts Magazine, Afterimage, Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing, Dialogue, Exploring Color Photography, View Camera Magazine, Present Tense: The Magazine of World Jewish Affairs, James Friedman: Color Photographs 1979-1982, The Village Voice, The New York Times and Photographic Possibilities.

A solo exhibition of 30 vintage dye transfer color photographs from "12 Nazi Concentration Camps" traveled throughout the United States and Canada from 1988-2002, organized and administered by Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York as part of its Traveling Exhibition Program.

French newspaper "Los Echos Week-End," featured "Interior Design" on September 21, 2018 as part of its Ryder Cup international golf competition coverage. The Ryder Cup was held in Paris from September 28-30, 2018.

"1,029,398 Cigarettes" is "...an unforgettable insight into a mother-son realtionship."  —  from "Four Documentary Photographers You Need To Follow" on Hungertv.com 

Photographs and commentary from "1,029,398 Cigarettes" have been published widely online on The Huffington Post, Lenscratch, Feature Shoot, BuzzFeed, HungerTV, reframing photography, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, LANDSCAPEStories (Italy), L'Oeil de la Photographie (France), Tabi-Labo (Japan), Expressen (Sweden), fototazo (Colombia), Morgensvisen Jyllands-Posten (Denmark), and oitzarisme (Romania). "1,029,398 Cigarettes" was published in the Fisheye Photo Book (France) and exhibited at the Addis Foto Fest (Ethiopia) in 2016.

By Dora Apel

"Jim Friedman’s ’12 Nazi Concentration Camps’ constitutes an important challenge to the largely sacralized and romanticized work of other photographers on this topic. His exploration of the elegiac impulse of second and third generations to return to the sites of the catastrophe offers an uncompromising and original strategy for the memory work of later generations.”

By William A. Ewing

Forward by Roy Blount Jr.

By Ekaterina Furceva

By Robert Hirsch with contributing writer Greg Erf

On April 8, 2017, photographs from and commentary about "1,029,398 Cigarettes" were published by Natsuyo Ibuki on Tabi-Labo.com in her article "Photo Collection of Vivid Reflections of a Mother's Death." Tabi-Labo reports 9 million monthly users.

"12 Nazi Concentration Camps: Photographs by James Friedman" a solo exhibition of thirty vintage dye transfer color photographs was exhibited at the Skirball Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio as part of FotoFocus Biennial's "Photography: The Undocument," October 2016.

American Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium

Exhibition materials from the Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, New York

By Chris Millard

By Robert Hirsch