DeSouza engages with issues of migration, relocation, and international travel in much of his artwork.Britany Salsbury, "Critic’s Picks: Allan deSouza", Artforum, August 2011.Karin Miller-Lewis, "Stripping Illusions," Art India, August 2008. His photoworks, texts, and installations examine geography, culture, and personal and communal identity. Much of his work takes up themes and visual vocabulary of migration and diaspora; his series of photographic work, The World Series, for example, was created as a response to Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series.Holland Cotter, "Allan deSouza", The New York Times, February 29, 2008. DeSouza is interested in movement, travel, dislocation, memory and time.Lavina Melwani, "Blurred Tenses", India Today, December 17, 2001.
