10x10 Photobooks

Salon #67 – Tommy Kha and Kris Graves
2023-06-20 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | SP
Join us for a 10×10 Salon featuring Tommy Kha and Kris Graves. Tommy will present his recent photobook Half, Full, Quarter (Aperture, 2023) and Kris will discuss his book, Privileged Mediocrity (KGP | Monolith, 2023) and his co-published zine-catalogues for the New York Now: Home exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.

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Tommy Kha received his MFA in Photography from Yale University. He is the recipient of the Next Step Award, the CPW Vision Award, Foam Talent, Creator Labs Photo’ Fund, NYSCA/NYFA Photography Fellow. His work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker and Foam. He has had solo exhibitions at Higher Pictures Generation, Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York and Blue Sky Gallery. His work was presented at Paris Photo, curated by Holly Roussell.

In Half, Full, Quarter (Aperture, 2023), featuring almost a decade of work, Tommy Kha explores the highly personal psycho-geography of his hometown. As the artist states, “Memphis has become, for me, not only the place where I was raised but an active borderland between fantasy and memory, nostalgia and history, nonfiction and mythology.”

Half, Full, Quarter (Aperture, 2023).

Kris Graves, an artist and publisher based in New York and California, received his BA in Visual Arts from SUNY Purchase. He creates artworks that explore the subtleties of societal power and its impact on the built environment. Graves has published numerous books and exhibited his artwork at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles and the National Portrait Gallery in London, among others. His imprint KGP | Monolith collaborates with artists to create limited edition publications and archival prints, focusing on contemporary photography and works on paper that address issues of race, identity, equity, gender, sexuality, and class.

Kris’ recent book Privileged Mediocrity examines systemic unfairness in the United States. New York: Home is a limited edition publication of four 24-page booklets in a complementary slipcase. Each brightly-colored booklet encompasses a section of the exhibition, featuring works from the show’s 33 photographers.

Privileged Mediocrity (KGP | Monolith, 2023).

New York Now: Home exhibition catalogue for the Museum of the City of New York.

10x10 Photobooks @ ICP Photobook Fest
2023-05-12 11:00 - 2023-05-14 18:00 | International Center of Photography, 84 Ludlow Street, New York, New York, United States
Come browse a selection of recent publications by 10×10 Photobooks and by our friends The Gould Collection at the ICP Photobook Fest at the International Center of Photography.

Viewing Days:

Friday, 12 May, 6 pm – 9pm (Preview)Saturday, 13 May, 11 am – 7 pmSunday, 14 May, 12 am – 6 pm

Salon #66 – Allen Frame and Alice Sachs Zimet
2023-04-25 18:30 - 20:30 | SP
Join us for an in-person salon featuring Allen Frame and Alice Sachs Zimet. Allen will present his recent photobook Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2022) and Alice will discuss her photography collection and decades-long support of artists. Allen’s book will be available for sale at the salon.

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From Allen Frame, Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2022): Ennio (left) and Two Sisters (right).

Allen Frame is a photographer and writer, based in New York and represented by Gitterman Gallery, which, in 2022, presented Whereupon, an exhibition of his black-and-white work from 1977-92. Whereupon will be published as a book by Palermo Publishing in the summer. Frame is a winner of the 2017/2018 Abigail Cohen Rome Prize in Visual Arts from the American Academy in Rome; CEC Artslink’s Back Apartment Residency in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2019; and was a Director’s Guest at Civitella Ranieri in Italy in 2021. Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2022) collects three separate recent projects by Allen Frame into one book, all of them using photographs found in flea markets in Rome. In each piece, Frame features a large collection of vintage photographs pertaining to a single family or individual, and mixes in his own contemporary photographs and perspective to explore personal narratives suggested by the images.

Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2022)

Alice Sachs Zimet is President, Arts + Business Partners. Since 1985, she has amassed a photography collection of roughly 350 images from 20th Century masters to the present. Alice is Chair, Photography Curatorial Committee, Harvard Art Museums; Chair, Acquisitions Committee, International Center of Photography (ICP); and board member, Magnum Foundation. She is on Faculty at Christie’s Education, the ICP School, Maine Media College + Workshops, and NYU’s Graduate Program, Arts Administration. Prior to founding ABP, Zimet was Director, Worldwide Cultural Affairs, The Chase Manhattan Bank (20 years), and, before that, began her career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A selection from Alice Zimet’s Collection.

Women and the Photobook @ Bodleian Libraries and The Old Fire Station, Oxford, UK
2023-04-15 10:00 - 2023-04-29 16:00 | Bodleian Libraries, Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG, United Kingdom
This pop-up library, inspired by the recent publication, What They saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999, explores the diversity of photographic books created by women. Throughout history, the contributions of women to the field of photography have often been overlooked. Visit the pop-up library in Blackwell Hall showcasing a wide-ranging collection of historical and contemporary photobooks authored by women.

Show & Tell sessionsJoin Philippa James for the Show & Tell sessions of rare books, many of which have remained unseen or under-recognised. This collection is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to expand their understanding and appreciation of the diverse perspectives and approaches that have been brought to the art of photography by women throughout history.

12.30pm – 1pm: sold out2pm – 2.30pm3pm – 3.30pm

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This event is part of Photo Oxford 2023 and will move to The Old Fire Station on 25 – 29 April 2023.

SpeakersThis event is organized by Falmouth University MA students; Philippa James, Emma Davies and Rolf Kraehenbuehl, with support from 10×10 Photobooks and A Year with my Camera.

Salon #65 — Christian Patterson and Laura Glazer, NYPL Picture Collection Artist Fellows
2023-03-28 18:00 - 19:45 | SP
Join us for a special 10×10 Salon at the New York Public Library with 2022 NYPL Picture Collection Artist Fellows Christian Patterson and Laura Glazer in conversation with Jessica Cline, Supervising Librarian of the Picture Collection.

New York Public LibraryRoom 216, the Center for Research in the Humanities476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018

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The Picture Collection Artist Fellowship supports artists or scholars engaged in the research, development, and/or execution of a new creative or scholarly work based on the Collection’s holdings.

Christian Patterson’s work-in-progress

For his Picture Collection fellowship, Christian Patterson proposed the difficult task of searching for occurrences of text that are incidental to the collection — words and phrases found in pictures; text that carries linguistic meaning and might also have its own visual qualities. Working with a small team of dedicated assistants, Patterson also decided to take on the monumental task of searching the entire circulating collection, sifting through most of its 12,000 subject folders and 1.5 million clippings. Over the course of six months, the team collected nearly 3,000 pieces of text, which Patterson hopes to eventually edit, juxtapose and recontextualize in book or other printed form.

Christian Patterson’s visually layered work deals with archives, photography, memory, place and time. His books include Redheaded Peckerwood, Bottom of the Lake and the forthcoming Gong Co. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, lectures and teaches widely, and runs the Garage, where he collaborates with artists on books, prints and exhibitions, with proceeds to non-profit organizations. His work will be exhibited at Recontres d’Arles this summer and he will be a resident at the James Castle House later this year. (@christian.patterson)

Laura Glazer looking in the Picture Collection with project participant, Seungjin Lee. Photo by Evan Roberts.

Laura Glazer’s project See Also responds to the Picture Collection as a social environment and place for sharing knowledge and learning from each other. Working on-site at the Collection, she watched as researchers looked at pictures and talked with them about what they saw. These conversations became a way to meet people, with project participants letting her into their research in the Collection and most importantly, their lives outside the library. The resulting photography book See Also: Making Friends at the NYPL Picture Collection documents the relationships that emerged from looking at pictures together.

Laura Glazer is an artist whose work is socially-engaged and depends on the participation of other people, sometimes a close friend, and other times, complete strangers. She holds a BFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology and is an MFA candidate in Art and Social Practice at Portland State University. She is based in Portland, Oregon. (@helloprettycity)

Since its creation in 1915, the New York Public Library Picture Collection has met the needs of New York’s large community of artists, illustrators, designers, teachers, students and general researchers. Covering over 12,000 subjects, the Picture Collection is an extensive circulating collection and reference archive of picture clippings, the largest of its kind in any public library system. (@nyplpicturecollection)

The Picture Collection Artist Fellowship allows dedicated access to the Collection and guidance from its staff with the goal of highlighting the Collection’s distinctive attributes. The fellowship will also foster community connections with peers and experts allowing for collaborative exchange. Fellowship awards are supported by the generosity of the Anne Levy Charitable Trust.

Panel Talk on Photobooks by Women
2023-03-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02108, United States
Join us for an exciting conversation on the history of photobooks by women. Panelists include Anne Havinga (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Chair, Department of Photography), Professor Kim Sichel (Boston University, Professor of History of Art & Architecture), Harvey Silverglate (Author, Activist and Attorney) and Dr. Stephanie Tung (Peabody Essex Museum Byrne Family Curator of Photography).

Wine and Cheese Reception to Follow.

Spotlight Talks at Boston Athenaeum
2023-03-02 11:00 - 2023-03-04 16:00 | Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02108, United States
Throughout the What They Saw Reading Room at the Boston Athenaeum, invited curators, scholars and librarians will present short talks on photobooks in the Reading Room.

Thursday, 2 March11am Kristen Gresh, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Senior Curator of PhotographsLola Álvarez Bravo, Acapulco en el Sueño (Acapulco in the Dream)12pm Karen Haas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Lane Senior Curator of PhotographsFrances Benjamin Johnston, The Hampton Album1pm Joanne Lukitsh, MassArt ProfessorJulia Margaret Cameron, Lord Tennyson and His Friends 2pm Gabrielle Reed, MassArt LibrarianSophie Calle, L’Hotel3pm Lisa McCarty, Northeastern Photography ProfessorNell Dorr, Of Night and Day4pm Caitlin Pereira, MassArt Library Visual Resources DirectorImogen Cunningham, Imogen Cunningham: Photographs

Friday, 3 March11am Alisa Prince, Boston University PostdocCarrie Mae Weems, In These Islands: South Carolina-Georgia 12pm Billie Mandle, MassArt Photography ProfessorJEB, Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians1pm Lynne Allen, Boston University Fine Arts ProfessorMary A. Bartlett, Mother Goose of ‘932pm Delaney Burns, Boston University MFA studentAnna Atkins, Sun Gardens: Victorian Photograms 3pm Toni Pepe, Boston University Photography ProfessorJo Spence, Putting Myself in the Picture4pm Sybylla Smith, Independent curator and educatorDonna Ferrato, Living with the Enemy

Saturday, 4 March11am Morgan Snoap, Boston University PhD studentAngèle Etoundi Essamba, Passion12pm Renee Brown, Boston University PhD candidateBerenice Abbott, Changing New York1pm Jesse Dritz, Boston University PhD student Abigail Heyman, Growing Up Female2pm Karl Baden, Boston College Photography Professor Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual DependencyChildren’s LibrarySaturday, 4 March, 11amJoin us in the children’s library for a display of children’s photobooks by women. Families with children of all ages are invited to a special story time with photobooks, rhymes and songs.

Boston Athenaeum What They Saw Reading Room
2023-03-02 09:00 - 2023-03-04 17:00 | Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02108, United States
Come Explore Photobooks by Women!

Join us at the Boston Athenaeum for a three-day What They Saw Reading Room of photobooks by women. Curated in collaboration with Lauren Graves, Polly Thayer Starr Fellow in American Art and Culture at the Boston Athenaeum and with support from Gabrielle Reed, Librarian at the MassArt Library, this Reading Room presents a diverse selection of 117 photobooks by women from around the world. Rare books will be on view and touchable books will be available for browsing in the Henry Long Room on the ground floor of the Boston Athenaeum.Experience over 100 years of books, from Julia Margaret Cameron’s Alfred, Lord Tennyson and his Friends (1893) to Shirin Neshat’s Women of Allah (1997).

$10 admission / Free to Boston Athenaeum membersThursday, 2 March – Saturday, 4 March 2023Thursday: 9 am – 8 pmFriday and Saturday: 9 am – 5 pm

Panel Talk on Thursday, 2 March at 6 pmFree to the general public. Advanced registration required.More information here.Spotlight Talks Throughout the event speakers will present short talks on a photobook in the Reading Room.Schedule of Spotlight Talks here.

Salon #64 — Anastasia Samoylova & David Campany, and Stanley Greenberg
2023-01-15 16:00 - 18:00 | SP
Join us for an in-person salon with Anastasia Samoylova in conversation with David Campany about Floridas (Steidl, 2022), and Stanley Greenberg talking about Springs and Wells—Manhattan and the Bronx (Fw:Books, 2021) and Olmsted Trees (Hirmer Publishers, 2022).

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Anastasia Samoylova / Walker Evans, Floridas (Steidl, 2022)

Floridas (Steidl, 2022) dives into that state’s dizzying combination of fantasy and reality. Walker Evans witnessed modern Florida emerging in the 1930s, with its blend of cultures, waves of tourism, stark beauty and blatant vulgarity. He photographed there until the 1970s, making Polaroids that still feel contemporary. Anastasia Samoylova inherits what Evans saw coming. With intelligence and humor, she picks her way through the seductions and disappointments of a place that symbolizes the contradictions of the United States today. In Floridas, editor David Campany presents photographs by Samoylova and Evans in parallel, weaving past and present, switching between black-and-white and color imagery.

Anastasia Samoylova / Walker Evans, Floridas (Steidl, 2022)

Anastasia Samoylova is an artist who moves between observational photography and studio practice. Her work explores notions of environmentalism, consumerism and the picturesque. Recent exhibitions include the Eastman Museum, the Chrysler Museum of Art and The Photographer’s Gallery, London. In 2022 Samoylova was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. Previous books include FloodZone (Steidl, 2019). (@anasamoylova)

Anastasia Samoylova / Walker Evans, Floridas (Steidl, 2022)

A curator and writer, David Campany is the author of over twenty publications, including On Photographs (2020), A Handful of Dust (2015), Walker Evans: the magazine work (2014) and Photography and Cinema (2008). He has edited two of Anastasia Samoylova’s books: FloodZone and Floridas. Campany is Curator at Large for the International Center of Photography, and teaches at the University of Westminster, London. (@davidcampany)

Stanley Greenberg, Springs and Wells—Manhattan and the Bronx (Fw:Books, 2021)

Stanley Greenberg’s Springs and Wells—Manhattan and the Bronx (Fw:Books, 2021) is a rephotographic survey of sites documented by James Ruell Smith around 1900. Smith wandered the city on his bicycle to photograph and write about springs and wells that supplied local residents with groundwater, while they waited to be connected to the city’s new water system. From 2016–20, Greenberg revisited and photographed each of those sites either by foot or bicycle. This book includes Smith’s original photographs and text, along with Greenberg’s contemporary images.

Stanley Greenberg, Springs and Wells—Manhattan and the Bronx (Fw:Books, 2021)

Olmsted Trees (Hirmer Publishers, 2022) is a collection of Stanley Greenberg’s photographs of trees planted by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr — the father of landscape architecture in the United States. The trees are located in public parks designed by Olmsted in the nineteenth Century, in New York, Boston, Rochester, Buffalo, Washington, Chicago and several other cities.

Stanley Greenberg, Olmsted Trees (Hirmer Publishers, 2022)

Brooklyn photographer Stanley Greenberg is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship along with grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, NYSCA, NYFA and the Graham Foundation. He has had solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the MIT Museum. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library. Greenberg has also published Invisible New York (1998), Waterworks (2003) and CODEX: New York (2019) as well as several other books. (@stanleygreenberg)

In Celebration of Photobooks by Women
2022-12-15 13:30 - 15:00 | The Photographers’ Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London, W1F 7LW, United Kingdom
Join editor Russet Lederman (10 x 10 Photobooks), and photographers Rhiannon Adam and Bieke Depoorter, for a joint book signing and informal chat in celebration of their esteemed and award-winning books:

What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999 edited by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich (10×10 Photobooks)

Big Fence/Pitcairn Island by Rhiannon Adam (Blow Up Press)

Bieke Depoorter (Des Palais)

Kraszna-Krausz Book Award Event at the V&A
2022-12-14 11:00 - 12:30 | Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, London, SW7 2RL, United Kingdom
The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation is delighted to be collaborating with the new Parasol Foundation Women in Photography project at the Victoria and Albert Museum to present a special event celebrating this year’s Kraszna-Krausz Photography Award winning title, What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999 and a selection of books from the award’s long list.

A symposium of artist and editor presentations will take place on Wednesday, 14 December at the V&A. Hosted by Fiona Rogers (inaugural Curator of the Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project), an international group of participants will discuss their books, the challenges and joys of developing a project for publication and their practice more broadly.Speakers include: Olga Yatskevich, Russet Lederman, Dr. Marta Weiss, Rhiannon Adam, Erika Lederman and Bieke Depoorter. This event has two types of tickets :— In-person attendance at the Victoria & Albert Museum— Online “Live Stream” attendancePlease use the buttons below to select your ticket option.

Salon #63 — Gabriella N. Báez and Oscar B. Castillo
2022-11-29 18:30 - 20:30 | SP
Join us for an in-person salon with artists Gabriella N. Báez, discussing La gente deprimida tiene sexo sucio y ganas de morir (Raya Editorial, 2022), and Oscar B. Castillo, talking about Esos que saben (Raya Editorial, 2022).

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Gabriella N. Báez, La gente deprimida tiene sexo sucio y ganas de morir (Raya Editorial, 2022)

La gente deprimida tiene sexo sucio y ganas de morir (Depressed People Have Dirty Sex and Want to Die) (Raya Editorial, 2022) is a diary transformed into a leporello photobook. Using Polaroid photography, drawings and texts, Gabriella N. Báez explores the complex relationship between sex, depression and identity. This diary-book-object brings together the crudeness, chaos and beauty of two years of Zoloft use, non-monogamous relationships, mourning and pleasure.

Gabriella N. Báez, La gente deprimida tiene sexo sucio y ganas de morir (Raya Editorial, 2022)

Gabriella N. Báez (@gabriellanbaez) is a mixed media artist and visual storyteller based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They focus on documenting intimate subjects: their father’s suicide post-Hurricane María, family relations of the queer community, sex work, and the relationship between grief, sexuality, depression and the body. They have been published in National Geographic and TIME, among other publications. Báez is a Magnum Foundation fellow, and their work is currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Oscar B. Castillo, Esos que saben (Raya Editorial, 2022)

Esos que saben (Those Who Know) (Raya Editorial, 2022) is the result of a seven-year collaboration between Oscar B. Castillo and Free Convict, a Hip Hop collective born inside the General Penitentiary of Venezuela: a prison ruled by the prisoners. Through photography, documents, interventions and collages, the book chronicles how these young men—living in a system that sees them as a lost cause, with all the odds against them—built their own path for redemption.

Oscar B. Castillo, Esos que saben (Raya Editorial, 2022)

Oscar B. Castillo (@eltestigo44) is a documentary photographer and multimedia artist focussing on subjects related to the causes and consequences of political rupture and its impact on civil society. His work emphasizes initiatives for inclusion and community empowerment, while questioning the structures of power, the media industry and the role we can play in a deeper and more effective debate. Castillo’s work has been published in major international publications and has been recognized by several fellowships including The Magnum Foundation.

Salon #62 — Claudia Jaguaribe and Winfried Heininger of Kodoji Press
2022-10-20 18:30 - 20:30 | SP
Join us for an in-person salon with photographer Claudia Jaguaribe and publisher Winfried Heininger of Kodoji Press.

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Claudia Jaguaribe, Asphalt Flower (Editions Bessard, 2022)

Claudia Jaguaribe’s Asphalt Flower (Editions Bessard, 2022) is a leporello book: one huge, single image which creates a “second Nature.” The work revisits the idea of landscape as a garden which expresses what connects Humans to Nature. It is an iconic place for the cycles of life (growth, flowering and decline) and a reflection of the society that shapes it. The superimposed images of flowers symbiotically entering asphalt forms shows us a surface that encapsulates nature since biblical times and can no longer be separated from it. Nature and culture are inextricable, one becoming the other. The photographic composition takes form between the idea of a world that seems to be heading towards a natural disaster and a future in which it struggles to maintain the force of resilience and resistance.

Claudia Jaguaribe, Asphalt Flower (Editions Bessard, 2022)

Claudia Jaguaribe’s work is mainly focused on the urban landscape and environmental issues. The materiality of her works questions the very nature of photography as she expands traditional formats by creating photo sculptures. She has 20 books published and recognized by the singularity of the photographic integration and graphic design. (@cjaguaribe)

Recent titles from Kodoji Press

Winfried Heininger designs and publishes books under the imprint of Kodoji Press. Amongst those publishing in the field of art and photography books, Heininger is one of the very few to consistently push editorial projects to their limits. He is questioning standards in book production and challenging conventional formats. (@kodoji_press)

Kodoji Press reading room at LE BAL, September 2022

TINY XX LIBRARY @ Mmuseumm 2
2022-10-14 11:00 - 2022-11-06 18:00 | SP
A pop-up library of recent photobooks not by men.Books as objects; books as stories; to touch, to inspire, to reflect!

Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays: 11 am – 6 pm.
Closed if raining.
24/7 viewing windows.

Mmuseum 26 Cortlandt AlleyTriBeCa, New York CityOpening Night PartyFriday, 14 October7 pm – 9 pmBooks & CoffeeSunday, 16 October10 am – 12 pmBooks in TINY XX LIBRARY

Rhiannon Adam, Big Fence / Pitcairn Island
Sasha Arutyunova, Shelter
Jane Evelyn Atwood, Darya: Histoire d’une badante ukrainienne
Françoise Caraco, Hidden Istanbul
Sabiha Çimen, Hafiz
Solmaz Daryani, The Eyes of Earth
Bieke Depoorter, …
Jess T. Dugan, Look at me like you love me
Katinka Goldberg, Bristningar
Bettina Grossman, Bettina: Photographs and works by Bettina Grossman
Naomi Harris, Haddon Hall
Nhu Xuan Hua, Tropism
Sayuri Ichida, Absentee
Nadine Ijewere, Our Own Selves
Agata Kalinowska, Yaga
Stacy Kranitz, As it Was Give(n) to Me

Anna Krieps, Stardust
Anouk Kruithof, Trans Human Nature
Justine Kurland, SCUMB Manifesto
Rita Lino, Replica
Dana Lixenberg, Polaroid 54/59/79
Holly Lynton, Bare Handed
Alakananda Nag, Armenians of Calcutta
Carole Naggar, Searching for the Light: David ‘Chim’ Seymour, 1911-1956
Marilyn Nance, Last Day in Lagos
Frida Orupabo, Frida Orupabo
Anita Pouchard Serra, Espera(nza)
Smita Sharma, We Cry in Silence
Elisabeth Smolarz, Encyclopedia of Things
Moe Suzuki, Sokohi
Leticia Valverdes, Dear Ana
Yelena Yemchuk, Odesa

Salon #61 — Sim Chi Yin, Teun van der Heijden and Odette England
2022-10-07 18:30 - 20:30 | SP
Join us for an in-person salon with artists Sim Chi Yin and Odette England. Sim will discuss She Never Rode That Trishaw Again (self-published, 2021) with designer Teun van der Heijden and England will present Dairy Character (Saint Lucy Books, 2021).

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Sim Chi Yin, She Never Rode That Trishaw Again (2021) Photo: Johannes Kremer

She Never Rode That Trishaw Again (self-published, 2021) tells the story of Loo Ngan Yue, a woman widowed by the British war against anti-colonial forces in Malaya — a 12-year conflict that became a template for other counter-insurgency campaigns. Artist and author Sim Chi Yin juxtaposes vacation photographs of Loo — her late paternal grandmother — with oral history excerpts on the family’s trauma. This intimate volume, using vernacular photographs to create a filmic experience, takes us inside the emotional world of a family shattered by geopolitics. It is the first in a trilogy of books Sim is making on the “Malayan Emergency” of 1948 to 1960, painting a picture of anguish, loss and amnesia — an allegory for Southeast Asia’s lingering traumas as a Cold War battleground. The book is designed by Teun van der Heijden.

Sim Chi Yin, She Never Rode That Trishaw Again (2021) Photos: Johannes Kremer

Sim Chi Yin is an artist from Singapore whose research-based practice includes photography, moving image, archival interventions and text-based performance, and focuses on history, conflict, memory and extraction. She is currently based in New York, where she is a fellow on the Whitney Independent Study Program. Recent solo exhibitions include Zilberman Gallery Berlin (2021), Les Rencontres d’Arles (2021) and Landskrona Foto Festival, Sweden (2020). Sim was commissioned as the Nobel Peace Prize photographer in 2017. She is also doing a visual practice-based PhD at King’s College London.

Odette England, Dairy Character (Saint Lucy Books, 2021)

Dairy Character (Saint Lucy Books, 2021) is a loose chronicle of Odette England’s experience growing up on a rural dairy farm in southern Australia. Combining recent photographs, family snapshots, archival images and autobiographical short stories, England examines the male-dominant farming community in which she was raised and the gendered repression that rural females experience. Her images and texts evoke a girl introduced to reproductive labor at an early age. A girl who wanted a pink room. A girl fenced in by interconnecting forms of vulnerability. A girl who had a cow named after her. Dairy Character is the 2021 winner of the Light Work Book Award.

Odette England, Dairy Character (Saint Lucy Books, 2021)

Odette England is a photographer and writer, and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow. Her work has been exhibited in more than 100 museums, galleries and art spaces worldwide and is held in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art. She has an MFA, a PhD and teaches at Brown University.

Salon #60 — D'Angelo Lovell Williams, Rachel Papo
2022-09-14 18:30 - 20:30 | SP
Join us for an in-person salon with photographers D’Angelo Lovell Williams and Rachel Papo. Williams will present Contact High (MACK, 2022) and Papo will present It’s Been Pouring (Kehrer Verlag, 2022).

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D’Angelo Lovell Williams, Contact High (MACK, 2022)

D’Angelo Lovell Williams’s Contact High (MACK, 2022) offers an expansive engagement with the visualization of desire and depiction of the Black body. Williams’s narrative images reflect the many forms in which Black queer people exist and have existed historically within each other’s lives. The title references the importance of touch and gesture in Williams’s work, and alludes to heightened senses and intuitive movement. Williams’s photographs visualize the Black body in performative scenes that are theatrical, dance-like, and occasionally mundane, pointing towards collective histories and Black ancestral practices. At the heart of these intimate, dialogic images are notions of kinship and spirituality interwoven with quietly political and radical gestures. Williams’s unfaltering gaze insists on visibility and deference and creates scenes in which Black and queer voices are the authority. The dynamics that play out are visualized as a spectrum of care, tenderness, and vulnerability, speaking to the nuances of our complex lives often overlooked by historical depictions.

D’Angelo Lovell Williams, Contact High (MACK, 2022)

D’Angelo Lovell Williams is a Black, HIV-positive artist expanding narratives of Black and queer intimacy through photography. They earned their BFA in photography from Memphis College of Art in 2015, an MFA in photography from Syracuse University in 2018, and are a 2018 Skowhegan School of Art alum. They live and work in New York City and are represented by Higher Pictures Generation.

Rachel Papo, It’s Been Pouring (Kehrer Verlag, 2022)

In It’s Been Pouring (Kehrer Verlag, 2022), Rachel Papo plumbs the depths of her postpartum depression, drawing on a community of mothers whose suffering mirrors her own. Through a combination of photographs, interviews and her own emails and texts, she provides a portal into the unbearable tension that exists between the miracle of birth and the potential horror that follows, leading the viewer through a narrative of despair. Designer Hans Gremmen deftly transforms Papo’s project into a nuanced photobook. The sympathetic, yet unwavering lens this work brings to postpartum depression helps build the case that it is, in part, a social problem, largely due to the narrow definition of what our culture means by “mother.”

Rachel Papo, It’s Been Pouring (Kehrer Verlag, 2022)

Rachel Papo is a Brooklyn-based award-winning photographer whose works have been exhibited and published worldwide. Among her awards are two NYFA Fellowships (2006, 2022) and a Lucie Award (2006). Papo’s works are in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Museum of Contemporary Photography and The Griffin Museum of Photography. Previous publications include Serial No. 3817131 (PowerHouse 2008) and Homeschooled (Kehrer 2016).

What They Saw Reading Room at Enter Enter in Amsterdam
2022-09-10 13:00 - 2022-10-23 17:00 | Enter Enter, Nieuwe Herengracht 11A, Amsterdam, 1011RK, Netherlands
Enter Enter is pleased to present What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999, a hands-on reading room showcasing a global selection of photobooks by female photographers from photography’s beginnings to the dawn of the 21st century. Enter Enter is open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 1 – 5 pm.

Public Talks

Rijksmuseum LibraryFriday, 16 September at 5:30 pmUnseen VIP event. Advance registration required through the Unseen VIP portal.Mattie Boom, curator of photography at the Rijksmuseum and Alex Alsemgeest, librarian at the Rijksmuseum Library will discuss photobooks by women in the museum library’s collection.

Enter EnterSaturday, 17 October at 3 pmWhat They Saw designer Ayumi Higuchi and co-editor Russet Lederman will discuss the project’s development from a design perspective.

What They Saw at Arles Book Fair
2022-07-04 11:00 - 2022-07-10 20:00 | Le Capitole, 14 Rue Laurent Bonnement, Arles, 13200, France
Find 10×10 Photobooks’ What They Saw at L’Editeur du Dimanche’s table at the Arles Book Fair with France Photobook at “Le Capitole” from 4 to 10 July, 11 am to 8 pm daily.

Salon #59 — Sabiha Çimen, Bieke Depoorter
2022-06-21 18:30 - 20:30 | SP
10×10 and Magnum Foundation present an in-person salon with Magnum photographers Sabiha Çimen and Bieke Depoorter discussing their recent photobooks. Other photobooks by Magnum women will be available to purchase as well.

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Sabiha Çimen, Hafiz (Red Hook Editions, 2021)

Sabiha Çimen‘s first book Hafiz (Red Hook Editions, 2021) is the culmination of three years of photographing girl’s Quran schools in five cities in Turkey. This is a subject that she knows very well since she herself attended one of those schools as a teenager, with her twin sister. The title refers to one who has memorized all 604 pages of the Holy Quran. Historically, the task of memorization began during the time of Muhammad. The individual process can take up to four years and is usually done by girls ranging in age from eight to nineteen. Turkey has thousands of Quran schools. This world has never been captured with so much intimacy before, as only Çimen can do, because she is part of this culture. Every photo reveals a different aspect and gives us a deeper understanding of the daily life and the dreams of these girls.

Sabiha Çimen (@sabakhayr), born in Istanbul, is a self-taught photographer, focusing on women, Islamic culture, portraiture, and still life. Çimen graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University with an undergraduate degree in International Trade and Finance and a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies. Her Master’s thesis on subaltern studies, which includes her photo story titled “Turkey as a Simulated Country,” was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2019. Awards include W. Eugene Smith Fund 2020, Light Work Artist in Residence 2020 and Canon Female Photojournalist Grant 2020, among others, and she participated in the 2018 World Press Photo Foundation Joop Swart Masterclass. Çimen became a Magnum Nominee member in 2020, and lives in Istanbul and New York.

Sabiha Çimen, Hafiz (Red Hook Editions, 2021)

Bieke Depoorter (@biekedepoorter) received a master’s degree in photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent in 2009. Three years later she was made a nominee of Magnum Photos, where she was named a full member in 2016. The relationships Depoorter establishes with the subjects of her photographs lie at the foundation of her artistic practice. Accidental encounters are the starting point, and how these interactions naturally develop dictates the suite. Several recent projects have been the result of her always questioning the medium itself. Depoorter has won several awards and honors, including the Magnum Expression Award, The Larry Sultan Award and the Prix Levallois. She has published five books: Ou Menya, I am About to Call it a Day, As it May Be, and Sète#15, et al. This year, Depoorter started her own publishing platform “Des Palais,” together with Tom Callemin. Deeporter presents her most recent book.

Pride Parade of Books
2022-06-17 13:00 - 2022-06-18 18:00 | Magnum Foundation, 59 East 4th Street, 7W, New York, New York, 10003, United States
Magnum Foundation and 10×10 Photobooks are teaming up to present a two-day informal gathering where you can browse and buy LGBTQ+ photobooks and zines!

Friday 1pm–6pm • Saturday 11am–6pm

And be sure to stop by the Printed Matter / St Marks x 8-Ball Community’s East Village Zine Fair on Saturday, June 18 as well!

10x10 Photobooks – 2021 Research Grants Presentation
2022-06-16 13:00 - 14:30 | SP
In 2021, 10×10 Photobooks awarded its inaugural Research Grants on Photobook History. The focus was on research and scholarship that seeks to fill gaps and provide missing information in the history of women and photobooks from 1843 to 1999.

We are very excited to share the results of that research in a virtual event. The three recipients will present the outcomes of their work, followed by a brief discussion and audience Q&A.

Yasmine Nachabe Taan: Catherine Leroy’s Work in BeirutFaride Mereb: Karmele Leizaola and Venezuelan PublishingUschi Klein: Clara Spitzer and Women Photographers in Communist Romania

The program will last approximately 90 minutes.

>> More info on the grantees

Global Photographies Network—Roundtable Discussion with 10x10
2022-06-15 09:00 - 10:00 | SP
Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich participate in a roundtable discussion about What They Saw: Historical Photobooks By Women, 1843-1999, with various partnering institutions from the Global Photographies Network, each bringing their own thoughts and questions into the conversation.

Zoom Webinar: 97324248603Passcode: [REDACTED]

Salon #58—Alakananda Nag, Yelena Yemchuk, Rania Matar
2022-06-01 18:30 - 20:30 | SP
Join us for an in-person salon with photographers Alakananda Nag, Yelena Yemchuk and Rania Matar.

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Alakananda Nag’s Armenians of Calcutta (self-published, 2021) is a book of photographs, text and rare archival material on the Armenian community of Calcutta who were the founders of the city as we know it today — a fact not widely known or accepted. Nag spent a decade on this work — researching, photographing, gathering previously unknown, unseen material, unique to the community and the city they helped build. Nag worked around the challenge of making this work from absence — of people, information, research material, reconstructing a reality, the memory of which is at best fractured. The book comes together seamlessly with an array of rich material to create a tableau of a very important community with an unparalleled contribution to an iconic city.

Alakananda Nag, Armenians of Calcutta (self-published, 2021)

Alakananda Nag (@alkanag) is a photographer, archivist and writer. She graduated in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism from International Center of Photography in New York. Her first photobook, the self-published Armenians of Calcutta launched in February 2021 at Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair; the physical launch outside of India is at ICP’s Photobook Fest 2022. The book has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum, SFMOMA and Caluste Gulbenkian Foundation among others. Nag is an Arts Practice grantee of the India Foundation for the Arts. She lives in Goa, India.

Alakananda Nag, Armenians of Calcutta (self-published, 2021)

“Time is different in Odesa. It’s a city outside of time.” As a child growing up in Kyiv, Yelena Yemchuk was fascinated by the reputation of Odesa as a free place during Soviet times. The city seemed full of contradictions — “acceptance but also danger. A place of jokes and characters, populated by outlaws and intellectuals.” She first visited Odesa in 2003 and returned in 2015 to begin to photograph the city and its inhabitants over a period of four years. Odesa (GOST, 2022) is Yemchuk’s visual ode to the city.

Yelena Yemchuk, Odesa (GOST, 2022)

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Yelena Yemchuk (@yemchuk) immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was eleven. She became interested in photography when her father gave her a 35 mm Minolta camera for her fourteenth birthday and she went on to study at both Parsons, New York and ArtCenter, Pasadena. Recognized for her surrealistic whimsy and dark romanticism, Yemchuk has exhibited both paintings and photographs in museums and galleries worldwide. She has shot for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Italian Vogue and others. Yemchuk’s previous books include Gidropark (Damiani, 2011), Anna (United Vagabonds, 2017), and Mabel, Betty & Bette (Kominek, 2021).

Yelena Yemchuk, Odesa (GOST, 2022)

Rania Matar‘s She (Radius Books, 2021) focuses on young women in their late teens and early twenties, who are leaving the cocoon of home, entering adulthood and facing a new reality. Depicting women in the United States and the Middle East, this project highlights how female subjectivity develops in parallel forms across cultural lines. Each young woman becomes an active participant in the image-making process, presiding over the environment and making it her own. Matar portrays the raw beauty of her subjects—their age, individuality, physicality and mystery—and photographs them the way she, a woman and a mother, sees them: beautiful, alive.

Rania Matar, She (Radius Books, 2021)

Rania Matar (@raniamatar) was born and raised in Lebanon and moved to the U.S. in 1984. As a Lebanese-born American woman and mother, her cross-cultural experience and personal narrative inform her photography. Her work has been widely exhibited in museums worldwide and is part of the permanent collections of several museums and institutions. A mid-career retrospective of her work was on view at Cleveland Museum of Art, Amon Carter Museum, and American University of Beirut Museum. Matar received several awards including: 2022 Leica Women Foto Project Award, 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2017 Mellon Foundation artist-in-residency grant and Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowships. Her previous books include L’Enfant-Femme (Damiani, 2016), A Girl and Her Room, (Umbrage 2012) and Ordinary Lives (Quantuck Lane Press, 2009).

Dust jacket poster from Rania Matar, She (Radius Books, 2021)

Guided Tour of the Rare Books in What They Saw – Fri, 5/20/2022
2022-05-20 13:00 - 14:00 | New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, Room 308, 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, 10018, United States
Tour and learn Tour and learn about the rare books in the Print & Photo Study Room of the What They See Reading Rooms with Elizabeth Cronin, the Robert B. Menschel Curator of Photography at NYPL. Some of the books that will be shared are: Laure Albin-Guillot’s Micrographie decorative (1931), Adelaide Hanscom, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1905), Carrie Mae Weems, And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People (1992), among others.

Advanced registration required for both tours and will be open on May 5, 2022 at 10am.

Guided Tour of the Rare Books in What They Saw – Thur., 5/19/2022
2022-05-19 12:00 - 13:00 | New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, Room 308, 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, 10018, United States
Tour and learn about the rare books in the Print & Photo Study Room of the What They See Reading Rooms with Elizabeth Cronin, the Robert B. Menschel Curator of Photography at NYPL. Some of the books that will be shared are: Laure Albin-Guillot’s Micrographie decorative (1931), Adelaide Hanscom, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1905), Carrie Mae Weems, And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People (1992), among others.

Advanced registration will be required for both tours and will be open on May 5, 2022 at 10am.

What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women Reading Rooms @ NYPL
2022-05-19 10:00 - 2022-05-21 17:45 | New York Public Library — 42nd Street, 476 5th Ave, New York, New York, 10018, United States
New York Public Library—42nd Street

Center for Research in the Humanities (2nd Floor, 10 am-5:45 pm daily, free and open to the public without registration)Prints & Photos Study Room (3rd Floor, Room 308, 1 pm-5:45 pm daily, free and advanced registration required by email: photography@nypl.org with subject heading “What They Saw”).

In collaboration with 10×10 Photobooks, the New York Public Library’s Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs is pleased to host the What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women Reading Rooms, two spaces to browse and view 200 photobooks from 1843 to 1999.

A drop-in, hands-on experience will take place in the Center for Research in the Humanities on the 2nd floor, with rare books accessible for viewing in the Prints & Photos Study Room in room 308. Both reading rooms are free and open to the public, but advanced registration is required to visit room 308 by emailing photography@nypl.org with subject heading “What They Saw.”

Below are What They Saw public events to explore photobooks created by women photographers!

Guided Tours of the Rare Books in What They SawPrints & Photos Study Room / Room 308 (3rd floor)Thursday, May 19 at 12 pmFriday, May 20 at 12 pmAdvance registration required here.Tour and learn about the rare books in the What They See Reading Rooms with Elizabeth Cronin, NYPL Wallach Division Assistant Curator of Photography.

Work/Cited: Rewriting Photobook History to Include WomenWednesday, 11 May at 1 pmVirtual event. Link here.In this episode of Work/Cited, The New York Public Library’s series that showcases scholarship supported by the Library’s rich collection, Wallach Division Assistant Curator Elizabeth Cronin and Olga Yatskevich and Russet Lederman, co-editors of What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999, will discuss women’s involvement in the emergence and development of the photographic book—sharing both well-known books as well as many forgotten examples.

What They Saw in Bryant Park9-30 May. Link here.On the cafe tables in Bryant Park on the front porches on either side of the main entrance of The New York Public Library, What They Saw is showcasing images of six historical photobooks by women. Enjoy a warm sunny day in the park while learning about photobooks by women. The use of the park cafe tables is courtesy of the Bryant Park Corporation.

Spotlight TalksCenter for Research in the Humanities (2nd floor)Thursday, 19 May; Friday, 20 May and Saturday, 21 May at 11:30 am, 1 pm, 3:30 pm and 4 pmThroughout the run of the What They Saw Reading Rooms, experts will present short 15-minute talks on individual photobooks on view. These talks are free and do not require any advance registration—just drop in.

Spotlight Talks Schedule

Thursday, May 19

11:30 am: Kelsey Sucena on Putting Myself in the Picture: A Political, Personal and Photographic Autobiography (1986)1 pm: Chantal Lee on Rosemarie Clausen, Samuel Beckett Inszeniert das “Endspiel” (Samuel Beckett Stages “Endgame”) (1969)2:30 pm: Emily Walz on Margaret Bourke-White, You Haven’t Seen Their Faces (1937)4 pm: Deirdre Donohue on Dare Wright, The Lonely Doll (1957)

Friday, May 20

11:30 am: Dolly Meieran on Susan Meiselas, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997)1 pm: Carole Naggar on Hannah Hoch, Sammelalbum (Album, 1933)2:30 pm: Karen Sklar on Marianne Wex, ‘Let’s Take Back Our Space’: “Female” and “Male” Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures (1979)4 pm: Elizabeth Cronin on Toni Frissell, A Children’s Garden of Verses (1944)

Saturday, May 21

11:30 am: Miguel Rosales on Paz Errázuriz, Amalia (1973, reprint 2013)1 pm: Jesse Dritz on Carrie Mae Weems, In these Islands: South Carolina • Georgia (1995)2:30 pm: Anna Jacobson on C. Jane Gover, The Positive Image: Women Photographers in Turn-of-the-Century America (1988)4 pm: Olga Yatskevich on Alicia D’Amico & Sara Facio, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (1968)

The What They Saw Reading Rooms are supported by an anonymous donor, Evan Mirapaul, Stuart Richardson and Grace Jones Richardson Trust.

Work/Cited: Rewriting Photobook History to Include Women
2022-05-11 13:00 - 14:00 | SP
In this episode, of the New York Pubic Library’s online Work/Cited program, NYPL’s Elizabeth Cronin and editors/researchers Olga Yatskevich and Russet Lederman, co-editors of What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999, will discuss women’s involvement in the emergence and development of the photographic book—sharing both well-known books, as well as many forgotten examples.

What They Saw in Bryant Park
2022-05-09 00:00 - 2022-05-30 23:59 | Bryant Park, 5th Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets, New York City, NY, 10018, United States
On the cafe tables in Bryant Park on the front porches on either side of the main entrance of The New York Public Library, What They Saw is showcasing images of six historical photobooks by women. Enjoy a warm sunny day in the park while learning about photobooks by women. On view will be books by Anna Atkins, Germaine Krull, Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson, Bernice Abbott, Alicia D’Amico & Sara Facio and Ruiko Yoshida. The use of the park cafe tables is courtesy of the Bryant Park Corporation.

The Photobook Ecosystem: Searching for Sustainable Approaches
2022-04-26 13:00 - 14:30 | SP
Co-presented by 10×10 Photobooks and the Sustainable Photobook Publishing (SPP) Network

A panel discussion with Loose Joints — Lewis Chaplin & Sarah Piegay Espenon, Catriona Gourlay (NAL, V&A), Paul John (Jan van Eyck Academie, Endless Editions) and Tamsin Green (manual.editions, SPP Network).

Moderated by Amelie Schuele (FOAM) and Daria Tuminas (FOTODOK).

What does sustainability mean for the photobook community? The materials used to make books such as paper, printing inks and packaging all use valuable resources and industrial processes that create waste and are potentially harmful to the planet. As a creative ﬁeld with links to many different disciplines, photobook publishing is well positioned to innovate and challenge publishing industry norms to forge a more sustainable future. Starting from where the YET Issue 12 “Is a Book Worth a Tree?” research ended, this event is intended to start conversations, spark new ways of thinking, and encourage ecologically conscious decision making at each stage of the photobook cycle—design, making, distribution, consumption.

Supported by Westminster University (Green Fund) and RPS Documentary Group.

Additional resources mentioned in the talk:

Support Ukrainian photobook makersDavid Joselit’s essay “In Praise of Small”Alternative materials discussed by Paul John: futurematerialsbank.comSPP Network’s Resource List

Daria Tuminas is an independent curator. Since 2019, she regularly curates for FOTODOK. Between 2017 and 2019, she headed Unseen Book Market at Unseen Amsterdam. Tuminas obtained a master’s in folklore and mythology at Saint Petersburg State University, and a master’s in film and photographic studies at Leiden University. She has organized a number of exhibitions and projects in relation to photobooks and regularly contributes texts about photobooks to various media including guest editor of The Photobook Review #12 (Aperture, 2017); a chapter on Eastern European photobooks in How We See: Photobooks by Women (10×10 Photobooks, 2018); and in 2020 Tuminas co-wrote “Is a Book Worth a Tree?” for YET issue 12.

Amelie Schüle is curator and head of public practice at FOAM Amsterdam. Special projects include the solo show Double Portrait by Cemre Yesil at project space MAQAM and Foam Talks, a monthly podcast focussing on contemporary photography and visual culture. From 2018 until 2020, she was a curator at Unseen Amsterdam. Before this, she worked for several years in different commercial galleries in Switzerland including Christophe Guye Galerie and Hauser & Wirth. She obtained a Master’s degree in Curatorial Studies at the Zurich School of the Arts. Schüle co-wrote “Is a Book Worth a Tree?” for YET issue 12.

Loose Joints is an independent publishing house founded by Sarah Piegay Espenon and Lewis Chaplin in 2014 and based between Marseille and London. Collaborating with leading and emerging artists on contemporary approaches to photography in book form, Loose Joints circulates new visual perspectives through a dedicated list seeking to elevate underrepresented voices in photographic discourse, and a holistic approach to publishing from start to ﬁnish with all design, editing and production done in-house. Loose Joints also operates independently as a design studio, working across publishing and the arts. In 2021 Loose Joints also founded Ensemble: a space dedicated to books, editions and photography in the heart of Marseille.

Paul John is an artist who works in abstract photography. Publishing and bookmaking are at the core of his artistic work. Education, dissemination of skills, and cultivating a community are elements of that practice. Working at the intersection of printmaking and institution building, John is the co-founder and former director of Endless Editions (based out of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York City), a publishing and curatorial initiative founded in 2014 with a mission to produce and disseminate books or prints by underrepresented and emerging artists. In 2017 Endless Editions co-produced the first ever Brooklyn Art Book Fair and has been the sole organizer since. BKABF is a free event for both vendors and the public. John is currently the coordinator of the Printing and Publishing Lab at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL.

Catriona Gourlay studied Fine Art in Edinburgh and worked as a Research Resources Assistant at the National Galleries of Scotland before becoming Assistant Curator in the National Art Library at the V&A in 2015. Her recent V&A display, Landscape and Language in Artists’ Books, explored how artists since the 1960s have used thought-provoking combinations of word and image to respond to landscape or evoke imaginary places.

Tamsin Green is an English visual artist and architect. In 2021 she established manual.editions to explore environmentally conscious approaches to book making. Through her search for more sustainable practices the Sustainable Photobook Publishing (SPP) Network was born. Green has published two handmade small edition books: Born of the Purest Parents (self-published, 2018) and this is how the earth must see itself; A walk with Natural Features (manual.editions, 2021). These books are in public collections, including the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate. Her books are also available to borrow within the UK via the manual.editions library.

Salon #57—Accra Shepp
2022-04-21 18:30 - 20:30 | SP
Join us for an in-person salon with photographer Accra Shepp discussing his new photobook, Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice (Convoke, 2022)

Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice (Convoke, 2022), Accra Shepp’s first monograph, brings together two bodies of socially engaged photographic portraiture that document New York City’s Occupy Wall Street movement starting in 2011 and its racial justice/BLM protests since 2020. Working in the style of August Sander with a large-format camera and black-and-white film, Shepp pictures New Yorkers on their city’s streets in acts of sit-ins and active protest. Both unplanned and highly organized, as well as independent and unified, Shepp’s images address notions of the 99% and 1%, which have come to define the American political vernacular. Bearing witness to defining events of the last decade that echo the United States’ longer historical arch, Shepp’s empathetic depictions of fellow citizens standing up for the Constitution’s fair protection provide a prophetic mirror of current events, which reflects back centuries to where the American experiment began, and suggest where we’ll find ourselves in the years to come.

Accra Shepp was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan amid the Black Power movement and the cultural change of the 60s. He is a photo-based artist whose work explores our relationship with the natural environment. Shepp’s images have been exhibited worldwide and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, among other institutions. His writings have appeared in The New York Times and the New York Review of Books and the artist’s book Atlas. Shepp’s Windbook, an artist’s-book installation, which explored ethnicity and national identity, was a year-long project where the book was outside, exposed to the elements with only the wind to turn its pages. He has taught at Princeton, Columbia, Wellesley, and Bowdoin, and currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts.
