1996 WW Norton "Mr. Roma's work is about desribing unprepossessing materials beautifully, in the manner o fEugene Atget, Walker Evans, and most immediately, Lee Friedlander."
——Andy Grundberg, The New York Times
"Those who have tired of the unspoiled villages of Vermont, and have found Santa Fe too much like Manhattan, and Positano cloying, will perhaps now migrate to beautiful Brooklyn, where—on the evidence of Thomas Roma's pictures—the light comes down with such sweet sympathy that asphalt shingles and clyclone fences are shown to be as fine as marble, and where the weeds in vacant lots make us think of Eden."
——John Szarkowski