Salon #48 – Sarah Stacke & Poulomi Basu

5 December 2019: 10×10 hosted a salon with Sarah Stacke and Poulomi Basu at the Magnum Foundation in Manhattan.

Sarah Stacke is a photographer and writer based in New York. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times and Photo District News – and has also worked with National Geographic, The New Yorker, the Washington Post, among others. Sarah is the author of Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum, a photobook looking at the life and work of turn-of-the-20^th-century photographer Hugh Mangum, recently published by Red Hook Editions. 

Poulomi Basu is an Indian transmedia artist, photographer, and activist. Her work explores how the formation of identity becomes entwined with geopolitics. A Magnum Foundation Social Justice Fellow and grantee, in 2019 Amnesty International cited Poulomi as an “important and brilliant human rights activist”. In 2018, her book Centralia was awarded the PHmuseum’s Humanity Grant Main Prize. Poulomi’s Salon presentation will be a conversation between her and Centralia’s essayist, Ivan Sigal. Ivan is a photographer, artist, writer, and a leader in the development of alternative media organizations.

Thank you to Simone Salvo and Kristen Lubben at the Magnum Foundation.