10x10 Photobooks – 2021 Research Grants Presentation
2022-06-16 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | 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

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!

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.

*** Proof of vaccination required. All attendees must remain masked. ***

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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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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 #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

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.

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.

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)

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)

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.

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.

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.

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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RSVPs will be confirmed starting 24 March.

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.

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 #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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Address will be provided when RSVP confirmed starting April 20th.

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.

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 #67 – Tommy Kha and Kris Graves
2023-06-20 18:30 - 20:30 | 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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Address will be provided when RSVP confirmed starting June 13th.

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.

Art on Paper Fair
2023-09-07 11:00 - 2023-09-10 19:00 | Pier 36, 299 South Street, New York, New York, 10002, United States
Please join 10×10 Photobooks at the Art on Paper Fair.

Art on Paper Pier 36, Downtown Manhattan 299 South Street New York, 10002 https://ny.thepaperfair.com/ Buy Tickets here

Hours:

Select VIP PreviewThursday, September 7, 2023: 5—6pmExclusive Entry for Select VIPs

Opening EveningThursday, September 7, 2023: 6—9pmExclusive Entry for Fair Pass Holders & Select VIP

Public HoursFriday, September 8, 2023: 11am—7pmSaturday, September 9, 2023: 11am—7pmSunday, September 10, 2023: 11am—6pm

Come browse a selection of recent publications by 10×10 Photobooks and by our friends The Gould Collection, Familia Editions and L’Editeur du Dimanche.

10×10 Photobooks and Friends @ Center for Book Arts Winter Market
2023-12-01 05:00 - 21:00 | Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, New York, 10001, United States
Please join 10×10 Photobooks and friends this friday at a winter market for artists’ books and photobooks.

In-person discounts on your favorite photobooks.

Research Grants on Photobook History Zoom Presentation of Research Results
2024-02-05 21:00 - 22:30 | SP
Tuesday, 6 February: 2 am UK / 7:30 am India / 10 am Taiwan / 11 am Korea

In 2022, 10×10 Photobooks awarded its 2nd cycle of Research Grants on Photobook History with a focus on research and scholarship that seeks to fill gaps and provide missing information in the history of women and photobooks with a focus on Asia, Africa and Oceania. We are very excited to share the results of that research in a virtual event. The grantees and their subjects are:

Suryanandini Narain: A Feminine Archive: Women, Albums and Photobooks in India

Sunyoung Kim: Unraveling Women’s stories on the page: The rise of women’s magazines and the creation of visual stories during the 1960s South Korea

Lin Junye: Women behind the pages: dialogues in photobook-making from Southeast Asia through editing, designing and self-publishing

The program will last approximately 90 minutes, during which the three recipients will present the outcomes of their work for about 20 minutes each, followed by a brief discussion and audience Q&A. We recognize the challenges with time zones, and this event will be recorded and will be posted on the 10×10 YouTube site. If you wish to join the event live, please register using the link below. >> More info on the grantees

What They Saw Reading Room @ Reina Sofia Museum
2024-02-23 09:00 - 2024-06-07 21:00 | Library at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, C/ Santa Isabel, 52, Madrid, 28012, Spain
The What They Saw Reading Room will be on view at Space D from 23 February to 7 June 2024 at the Library and Document Center of the Museo Nacional Centro Arte Reina Sofia. Presenting a selection of sixty photobooks by women from around the world, the reading room will include books from 1843 to 1999.

Public Talk (in Spanish and English)¿Qué historia? : Encuentro sobre el fotolibro realizado por mujeresThursday, 22 February, 6 pm Free admission, register here for the talk

A conversation between Sonia Berger of Dalpine Books and Russet Lederman of 10×10 Photobooks, followed by photographer presentations by Liza Ambrossio, Manuela Lorente and Lúa Ribeira.

Salon #69 – Ying Ang and the Ritsch Sisters
2024-03-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Penumbra Foundation, 36 E 30th Street, New York, New York, 10016, United States
Join us for a 10×10 Salon featuring Ying Ang and the Ritsch Sisters at Penumbra Foundation.

Based in Melbourne, Australia, Ying Ang is a social documentary photographer and author. She is on the teaching faculty at the ICP in New York City, the Director of Reflexions 2.0 – a photographic masterclass based in Europe – and on the board of the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, Australia.Ying will present two books: Gold Coast (2014), which is about our perceptions of safety and danger within the architecture of our built environment, and The Quickening (2021), a study of the sudden transformations that affect a woman’s life when becoming a mother.

Anna and Maria Ritsch are sisters who work individually in the fields of photography & art and started the collaboration ‘Ritsch Sisters’ in early 2020. Their focus is in photography and video that explore the tensions between the physical, spatial, and emotional. The duo collaborates internationally, with Maria based in Vienna and Anna in New York City.Anna and Maria will discuss their most recent photobook Together Apart (2023), which delves into profound questions of identity, societal change, and the human experience as well as their earlier book The Act Of Sitting (2021), a visual exploration of “sitting” as an action and idea.

10x10 at Other Islands Book Fair — 13 & 14 April
2024-04-13 12:00 - 2024-04-14 20:00 | Other Island Book Fair / Pratt Institute, 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn
Join 10×10 Photobooks and friends at the Other Islands Book Fair!

Pratt IntituteStudent UnionSaturday, 13 April12 pm – 8 pm

Sunday, 14 April12 pm – 6 pm

G train to Clinton-Washington Avenues Station** See map below for location of the student union building

In addition to books by 10×10 Photobooks, we will be showcasing a selection of publications by four women-owned photobook publishers:The Gould Collection / New York / Paris / TokyoL’éditeur du dimanche / Paris Offset Projects / New DelhiRusset Lederman Ink / New York

Salon #70 — "From Magazine to Japanese Photobook" with Ivan Vartanian and Maggie Mustard
2024-04-23 18:00 - 20:00 | New York Public Library — 42nd Street, 476 5th Ave, New York, New York, 10018, United States
10×10 Photobooks Salon in collaboration with the Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at the New York Public Library.

Join us for “From Magazine to Japanese Photobook,” a conversation between Ivan Vartanian and Maggie Mustard on the role that magazines have played in the evolution of Japanese photobooks. Their talk will center on examples from Vartanian’s recent publication, Japanese Photography Magazines: 1880s – 1980s. This salon can be attended in person or viewed online via a Zoom stream, beginning at 6 pm EST. Please use the buttons below to register.Explore a century of Japanese photography through its magazine culture. Japanese Photography Magazines: 1880s to 1980s offers an accessible journey into Japan’s rich photography history, showcasing over 1,500 visuals, essays, explanatory texts and primary texts by photographers. This volume is an unparalleled resource, opening up an otherwise obscure world to enthusiasts and scholars alike.Ivan Vartanian is the founder of Goliga, an imprint based in Tokyo. He has edited and authored numerous books on art and photography, including Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s & ’70s (Aperture, 2009), Setting Sun: Writings by Japanese Photographers (Aperture, 2005) and Japanese Photography Magazines: 1880s to 1980s (Goliga, 2022), which was short-listed for the 2023 Paris Photo-Aperture Catalog of the Year Award.Maggie Mustard is Assistant Curator of Photography in the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at the New York Public Library. She earned her PhD in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University, with a focus on postwar Japanese photography and photobooks.

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New York Art Book Fair: 10x10 x 6 Women Photobook Publishers
2024-04-25 11:00 - 2024-04-28 19:00 | Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, 548 West 22nd Street, New York, New York, United States
Join 10×10 Photobooks and 6 Women Photobook Publishers at Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair—Table E22!

We will be showcasing the publications of 6 women-owned photobook publishers:

Avarie / Berlin / ParisL’éditeur du dimanche / ParisThe Gould Collection / New York / Paris / TokyoMultipress / OsloOffset Projects / New DehliOsiris / Tokyo

Browse and purchase from 10×10 Photobooks and an amazing selection of photobooks produced by these international imprints!

Salon #71 — Stacy Kranitz and Carly Ries
2024-04-30 06:00 - 20:00 | Magnum Foundation, 59 East 4th Street, 7W, New York, New York, 10003, United States
Join us for a 10×10 Salon featuring Stacy Kranitz and the Carly Ries at Magnum Foundation.

Working within the documentary tradition, Stacy Kranitz makes photographs that acknowledge the limits of photographic representation. Her images do not tell the “truth” but are honest about their inherent shortcomings, and thus reclaim these failures (exoticism, ambiguity, fetishization) as sympathetic equivalents in order to more forcefully convey the complexity and instability of the lives, places and moments they depict.

For the past fourteen years, Stacy Kranitz has been making photographs in the Appalachian region of the United States in order to explore how photography can solidify or demystify stereotypes, and interpret memory and history in a region where the medium has failed to provide an equitable depiction of its people. Kranitz will discuss As It Was Give(n) To Me, her first monograph, which gathers twelve years of her work in Appalachia. She will also share her recent ProPublica project, A Year After a Denied Abortion.

Carly Ries will present their recent book Centerfold, a sequence of collaborative portraits and fragmented scenes from the pages of vintage XXX magazine pages that are detached from their original purpose and queered by the artist’s hands. Throughout their photographs and photobooks, Ries explores recurring symbols of nude iconography in art history and visual culture, appropriating archival imagery from pornography and anonymous sources to destabilize authorship.

Carly Ries is a lens-based artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Their photobooks are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The New York Public Library, among others. They received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ries oversees the Peter J. Cohen Collection, a vast archive of vernacular photographs from the 20th century and teaches photography at The New School.

BYOB: Drinks and snacks welcome!Please note that our hosts graciously give us their space, but we ask that our attendees bring drinks and snacks.10×10 Photobooks Salons offer a space to get together with photobook publishers, authors and collectors in an informal atmosphere over a glass of wine or beer.

This salon is graciously hosted by Magnum Foundation. More about the foundation here.

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