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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 (America/New_York) | 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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Salon #72 — New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellows: Audra Wolowiec, Michelle Maguire and Noah Doely
2024-05-21 18:00 - 19:30 | New York Public Library, 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10018
Join us for a 10×10 Salon featuring the current projects of New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellows: Audra Wolowiec, Michelle Maguire and Noah Doely.

Audra Wolowiec will present WAV, a project initiated during her Artist Fellowship at the NYPL Picture Collection, to locate images that evoke sound, silence, and noise. In addition, she will share AIR, an artist book edition and vinyl LP published by her publishing platform Gravel Projects, inviting sonic and visual interpretations of breath.

Wolowiec is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York whose work explores sound and the material qualities of language. Her work has been shown internationally and across the United States. Wolowiec teaches at Parsons School of Design and directs the publishing platform Gravel Projects.

For their collaborative NYPL Picture Collection fellowship, Michelle Maguire and Noah Doely browsed the collection, searching for a diverse range of subject matter that illustrates things hiding in plain sight. Their goal was to spotlight veiled examples from the natural and human-made worlds that embody a broad spectrum of the things that are not what they seem—from masters of imitation to clumsy disguises and everything in between—compiling visual material that will ultimately become a book. Maguire will also share Leaks, Squeaks and Cheeks, a side project focusing on three commonplace, straight-faced subjects that evoke Ed Ruscha’s playful use of serial sequences and rhyme schemes.

Maguire is drawn to things that are deadpan, things that contain layered and ambiguous meanings, and things that surprise and delight. Her self-published books about family anecdotes and the extension of memory are in the permanent collections of Yale, Harvard, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Center for Book Arts.

Doely’s work explores the paradoxical relationship between seeing and belief through photography, sculpture, and video. He received an MFA from UC San Diego and has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, MacDowell and the Penumbra Foundation, where he regularly teaches workshops.

This salon is graciously hosted by the Picture Collection at the New York Public Library.

Salon #73 — Jason Koxvold of Gnomic Books and Svetlana Bachevanova of FotoEvidence Press
2024-09-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Penumbra Foundation, 36 E 30th Street, New York, New York, 10016, United States
Join us for a 10×10 Salon featuring Jason Koxvold of Gnomic Book and Svetlana Bachevanova of FotoEvidence Press on Monday, 9 September at 6pm at Penumbra Foundation. Books will be available for browsing and purchase before and after the presentations.

Jason Koxvold is an artist and publisher whose practice focuses on the shared spaces between soft and hard power. His first monograph, Knives, was published in 2017, followed by You Were Right All Along (2018), Calle Tredici Martiri (2019) and Engage and Destroy (2023). His work has been exhibited in the United States, Britain, Germany, France, and Japan. Koxvold is also the founder of Gnomic Book, an independent fine art imprint founded in 2016.Koxvold will be presenting three recent publications from Gnomic Book. Jason Hendardy’s This is a Test (2024) is a premonition and reflection on technology, America, and the subjectivity of an artist wading through three decades of culture and personal creation. American Glitch (2024) by Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein documents the years the artists spent treating the internet as their collective subconscious as part of their lengthy research process. Koxvold’s Engage and Destroy (2023) meditates on culturally manufactured notions of hegemonic hypermasculinity in a time of global conflict—and how these notions meet with reality.Svetlana Bachevanova is the executive director of the FotoEvidence Association in France and a co-founder of the acclaimed publishing house FotoEvidence Press (New York 2010). The books she and her team publish expose injustice, create enduring evidence of violations of human rights and inspire social change.

Bachevanova will be sharing Ukraine: A War Crime (2023)and Ukraine: Love+War (2014-2024) (2024), two unique, collaborative books that bring together more than 150 photojournalists from 29 countries to tell the story of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of those tasked with documenting it.

What They Saw Reading Room in Miami
2024-10-01 09:30 - 2025-01-03 18:00 | Miami Dade Public Library – Main Branch, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, 33130, United States
10×10 Photobooks is pleased to collaboration with WOPHA to present the What They Saw Reading Room at the Miami Dade Public Library’s Main Branch

Miami Dade Public LibraryMain Library101 W Flagler St.Miami, FL 33130

Part of 10×10’s touring reading room exhibition that highlights significant but often overlooked photobooks created by women from 1843 to 1999, the What They Saw Reading Room, based on 10×10’s publication of the same title, addresses underrepresentation in photobook history, particularly of non-Western and women of color. Specific to the Miami venue is a section showcasing contemporary South Florida women photographers. This reading room was facilitated by Aldeide Delgado, Amanda Bradley and Zonia Zena of WOPHA.

Pick your copy of What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999 in the Miami area at:

Books & Books265 Aragon AvenueCoral Gables, FL

Dale Zine Shop50 NE 40th StreetMiami, FL

Salon #74 — Photography and Photobooks in the Age of AI, a panel discussion with Fred Ritchin, Brian Palmer and Alexey Yurenev at Magnum Foundation
2024-10-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Magnum Foundation, 59 East 4th Street, 7W, New York, New York, 10003, United States
Join us for “Photography and Photobooks in the Age of AI,” a 10×10 Salon panel discussion featuring Fred Ritchin, Brian Palmer and Alexey Yurenev. With artificial intelligence fundamentally transforming photography and image-making, this panel will look at its impact within photography in general and more specifically within the field of photobooks from the perspectives of an educator/critic, visual journalist and artist/visual researcher.Fred Ritchin is a writer, educator, photography critic and dean emeritus of the International Center of Photography (ICP) School. His forthcoming book The Synthetic Eye (Thames & Hudson, 2024) is a revelatory glimpse into the future of photography, one where the very nature of how images are created is fundamentally transformed by artificial intelligence. Brian Palmer is a visual journalist and educator based in Richmond, VA. Palmer is a former CNN correspondent, US News and World Report photographer, and US News Beijing Bureau Chief. He is a co-founder of the Writing with Light campaign.Alexey Yurenev is a photographer and visual researcher interested in how technology shapes the production of knowledge and collective memory. His recent book Seeing Against Seeing, generated with the aid of AI, arose from a collaboration with the designer Teun van der Heijden and the Anti-Krieg Museum in Berlin.

Salon #75 — João Pina and Jesper Haynes at Center for Book Arts
2024-11-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, New York, 10001, United States
Please join 10×10 Photobooks for a Salon with João Pina and Jesper Haynes.João Pina is a freelance photographer born in Portugal. He began working as a professional photographer at eighteen and graduated from the International Center of Photography program in 2005. Pina’s photographs have been published in The New York Times, the New Yorker, Stern, Time, and Visão, among others.

Pina has published numerous books, including Por Teu Livre Pensamento (2007), featuring the stories of former Portuguese political prisoners; CONDOR (2014), an exploration of the remnants of Operation Condor, a large-scale secret military operation to eliminate political opposition to the military dictatorships in South America during the 1970s; and 46750 (2018), which focuses on the ongoing urban violence in Rio de Janeiro and the city’s transformation over the past decade while preparing for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Tarrafal (2024), his most recent book presents a dialogue with his grandfather, a political prisoner, along with the only images made inside the Tarrafal concentration camp, nicknamed the “slow death camp.”

Jesper Haynes is an American-Swedish photographer known for capturing urban life and intimate moments over decades. He has published fifteen books and zines and exhibited his work globally in cities like New York, Bangkok, Stockholm and Tokyo. Haynes has also worked on collaborations with the fashion brand Chanel.

In 1986, Jesper moved to an apartment on the corner of St. Marks and First Avenue. It was above the St. Mark’s Bar & Grill where the Rolling Stones had just filmed the video for “Waiting on a Friend.” His home for twenty years, the apartment is the backdrop for much of his photography during this period, and is compiled in his book St. Marks 1986-2006 (2015). His recent eponymous book Jesper Haynes (2022) also presents a collection of images from the 1980s to the present, including his projects: New York Darkroom; Haynesville; Gig; Brooklyn 11211; Shibuya Scramble; and Bangkok 2020/21.

Salon #76 — Melissa Harris and Krissy Shook at Higher Pictures
2024-12-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Higher Pictures, 45 Main Street #723, Brooklyn, New York, 11201, United States
Please join 10×10 Photobooks for a Salon with Melissa Harris and Krissy Shook.

Melissa Harris is editor-at-large of Aperture and served as editor-in-chief of Aperture magazine, 2000–2012. Harris curates exhibitions worldwide, including Mary Ellen Mark: Encounters with C/O Berlin (& Steidl Verlag, 2023). She is the author of two visual biographies: A Wild Life on Michael “Nick” Nichols (Aperture, 2017), and Josef Koudelka: Next (Aperture, 2023). Melissa will discuss her two most recent publishing/curatorials projects: Josef Koudelka: Next and Mary Ellen Marks: Encounters. The only authorized biography of Josef Koudelka, Melissa spent almost ten years and hundreds of hours interviewing Koudelka about his more than 60-year-long career for her definitive volume on one of the Magnum Photos’ seminal photographers. A touring exhibition and associated publication, Mary Ellen Mark: Encounters is a comprehensive survey of Mark’s documentary and portrait practice from the 1960s until the end of her life in 2015. Mark’s immense empathy and humanist ideals imbue both her personal and assigned photography of marginalized peoples.Born in Manhattan, Kristina Shook is a full-scholarship graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and holds a Master’s degree from the American Film Institute. She is a writer, performance artist, and visual artist.

Kristina was photographed from ages 1 to 18 by her late mother, renowned photographer Melissa Shook. She joins the 10×10 Photobooks Salon to discuss Krissy: Photographs and Writings by Melissa Shook (c. 1979), an unpublished book maquette on Kristina’s early life and Daily Self-Portraits 1972-1973 (TBW, 2023) her mother’s first photography book, published by TBW Books. The book, twice shortlisted this year at the Arles Book Fair and Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2024, features Melissa’s daily self-portraits taken in their Lower East Side apartment. The discussion will delve into the intimate moments captured in the series and Kristina’s memories of being part of this deeply personal project. Krissy will also share Krissy: Photographs and Writings by Melissa Shook.

Printed Matter: Flashpoint! Conversation
2025-01-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Printed Matter, 231 11th Ave, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Join us for a conversation between Olga Yatskevich, Russet Lederman and Lesley A. Martin on occasion of the release of Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present, a new anthology from 10×10 Photobooks.

The past seventy-five years have been a time of extreme social and cultural transformations worldwide. Political and social upheaval, often contentious, disorienting and polarizing, is now a daily reality. We live in a world rife with ideological and tribal conflicts. Since its inception, photography has captured defining historical moments, serving as either a tool or a document of protest—or both. Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present, does a deep dive into protest photography in print through a global selection of photobooks, zines, posters, pamphlets, independent journals and alternative newspapers.

Also on view at Printed Matter: 2024 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards. Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present is among the five shortlisted titles for the Catalogue of the Year Award in this exhibition.Photo Credit: Spread from Zed Nelson’s Gun Nation (2000), documented in Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present.

Photography and Text in Protest: A Panel Discussion
2025-02-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, New York, 10022, United States
Please join us for a panel discussion with archives specialist Arthur Fournier, photographer Kris Graves and scholar Kyle Canter on the relationship of photography with text in protest materials in print. Featuring examples from 10×10 Photobooks’ new anthology, Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present (10×10 Photobooks), the speakers will explore the recent history of protest photography in print worldwide and how the intersection of photography and text shape both the making and reception of the material—from photobooks, zines, posters, pamphlets, independent journals and alternative newspapers. Since its inception, photography has captured defining historical moments, serving as either a tool or a document of protest—or both. Often combined with text (essays, poetry, diary entries, etc.) to tell stories or make arguments, photography has served this purpose through extreme social and cultural transformations and the contemporary daily reality of political and social upheaval, often contentious, disorienting and polarizing. Flashpoint! will be available for sale and signing at the event.

Arthur Fournier is an independent broker of twentieth-century archives and a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America who focuses on primary source materials from the late twentieth century, including underground serials, self-published books and ephemera that provide an alternative bibliographic view of contemporary life and revolutionary struggle.

Kris Graves is an American photographer who examines systemic unfairness in the United States. Using a mix of conceptual and documentary practices, Graves photographs the subtleties of societal power and how racism and capitalism can be seen and experienced in everyday life. His recent publications include RNC DNC, Privileged Mediocrity and A Bleak Reality.

Kyle Canter is a PhD student in art history at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research interests include the concept and politics of social documentary photography and photography’s relationship to the medical humanities and gender/sexuality studies. His writing has appeared in 125th Street: Photography in Harlem, the Journal of Black Mountain College Studies and Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950–Present.

Salon #78 — Carmen Winant and Mariette Pathy Allen @ NYPL
2025-03-25 18:00 - 20:00 | New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, Room 308, 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, 10018, United States
Please join 10×10 Photobooks and the Wallach Division at The New York Public Library for a Photobook Salon with Carmen Winant and Mariette Pathy Allen, moderated by Elizabeth Cronin, Robert B. Menschel Curator of Photography at The New York Public Library.

Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University. Her work utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and sometimes transnational coalition building. Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a 2020 FCA Artist Honoree and a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient. She is also a community organizer, prison educator, and mother to her two children, Carlo and Rafa, shared with her partner, Luke Stettner. Her recent publications include My Birth (2018) and The Last Safe Abortion (2024)

Mariette Pathy Allen has been photographing transgender communities for nearly five decades, pioneering visibility through five books: Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them (1989), The Gender Frontier (2003), TransCuba (2014), Transcendents (2017) and I Was The Girl (2024). Her work is in numerous major collections, has been exhibited internationally, and is being archived by Duke University. Beyond gender, Allen has a number of series exploring family, birth, juxtapositions, fantasy, and everyday life. Allen lives in NYC and is represented by CLAMP.

Flashpoint! Talk & Gathering at These Days in Los Angeles
2025-04-06 03:00 - 17:00 | These Days, 118 Winston Street, Los Angeles, California, 90013, United States
Please join us for a book talk and gathering on protest photography in print at These Days with Olivian Cha, Noé Montes, Marjorie Ornston and the 10×10 Photobooks editors of Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print.

Meet and hear the 10×10 Photobooks editorial team and several of the Los Angeles-based authors, experts and contributors associated with 10×10 Photobooks’ recent publication Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present.

Presentations by:

Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich, Flashpoint editors, will give an overview of the project.

Olivian Cha, curator and collections manager of the Corita Kent Center, will speak on Sister Corita Kent and her art, teaching, and passion for social justice.

Noé Montes, Los Angeles-based artist working in the mediums of photography, social practice, installation and public art, will present posters from the collection of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

Marjorie Ornston, collector and researcher, will share book contributions by Danny Lyon, posters by Gran Fury and Resources in Flashpoint!.

Getty Museum & Research Institute — What They Saw Reading Room
2025-04-08 08:00 - 2025-05-11 18:00 | Getty Museum & Research Institute, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, California, 90049, United States
[8 April – 11 May 2025] This pop-up reading room surveys a global history of photobooks by women photographers from the Getty Library. As part of an international series showcasing the 10×10 Photobooks’ publication What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women 1843–1999, it offers an inclusive revision and remapping of the photobook canon. Curated in collaboration with Getty Research Institute Photography Curator Isotta Poggi, the reading room presents a diverse selection of 117 historical photobooks by women, complemented by 22 notable photobooks by Southern California women artists after 2000. https://www.getty.edu/exhibitions/what-they-saw/

[April 11 at 6-8pm PST] Celebrate the opening of the Getty Research Institute exhibition What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1943–1999. Artists Catherine Opie and Melodie McDaniel will be joined by 10×10 Photobooks co-founder Russet Lederman and exhibition co-curator Isotta Poggi to explore photobook publication and how the process highlights themes of collaboration, storytelling, politics, identity, and resilience. https://www.getty.edu/calendar/photobooks-by-women/

The discussion will be followed by a reception and gallery viewings.

The conversation will be available on the Getty Research Institute YouTube channel following the event.

The What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women Reading Room is realized with supported from Richard Sun.

What They Saw Book

Photobooks by Women
2025-04-11 06:00 - 20:00 | Getty Museum & Research Institute, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, California, 90049, United States
Celebrate the opening of the Getty Research Institute exhibition What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1943–1999. Artists Catherine Opie and Melodie McDaniel will be joined by 10×10 Photobooks co-founder Russet Lederman and exhibition co-curator Isotta Poggi to explore photobook publication and how the process highlights themes of collaboration, storytelling, politics, identity, and resilience.

The discussion will be followed by a reception and gallery viewings.

The conversation will be available on the Getty Research Institute YouTube channel following the event.

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Submit your Photo-based Protest Zine to the Flashpoint! Reading Room at the Contact Photography Festival in Toronto
2025-04-15 12:00 | Contact Gallery, 80 Spadina Ave, Ste 205, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2J4, Canada
10×10 Photobooks and Contact Photography Festival seeks PHOTO-BASED protest zine submissions for a community selection featured in the hands-on Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print Reading Room from 1 May to 21 June at Contact Gallery in Toronto, Canada.

Deadline for submission and receipt of zine: 15 April 2025.

We seek PHOTO-BASED ZINES ONLY. Zines that do not include photography will not be considered.

A selection from the photo-based zines submitted will be included in the reading room on a rotating basis. Priority will be given to Canadian submissions.

Please note that submitted zines will not be returned and submission does not guarantee inclusion.

Selected zine-makers will be notified of inclusion by 1 May 2025.

Future Flashpoint Reading Rooms will also include calls for submission of community zines.

Look out for future emails about subsequent venue submission.

Submitters must submit to each future venue separately.

Selection in one reading room venue does not transfer to the next venue.

2024-5 (Cycle 3) Research Grants on Photobook History Zoom Presentations
2025-04-30 10:00 - 11:30 | New York
In February 2024, 10×10 Photobooks awarded its 3rd cycle of Research Grants on Photobook History and was open to proposals on any topic in photobook history. We are very excited to share the results of that research in a virtual event. The grantees and their subjects are:

Sudeshna Rana: Visualising the post-digital photobook:Studying the Influence of Global Digital Cultures on the Medium, Patronage and Accessibility of the 21st Century Photobook in South Asia

Alisa Prince: “Tomorrow is Here:” Image & Text in The Harlem Book of The Dead

Ethel-Ruth Tawe: The Algorithms of Colonial African Photobooks

The 3 grantees from that cycle will be presenting their results via Zoom on Wednesday, 30 April 2025:New York: 10 amLondon: 3 pmIndia: 7:30 pm

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.

Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print Reading Room at Contact Photography Festival
2025-05-01 08:00 - 2025-06-21 17:00 | Contact Gallery, 80 Spadina Ave Ste 205, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Flashpoint!, a reading room exhibition focusing on protest photography in print, presents a global selection of photobooks, zines, posters, pamphlets, independent journals and alternative newspapers that address protest and resistance from the 1950s to the present. Through its reflection of numerous cultural and regional perspectives, Flashpoint! offers an opportunity to experience the lives of others, grapple with complex societal issues, and shape conversations that challenge norms and inspire positive and respectful discourse. Based on a 2024 anthology of the same title, the Flashpoint! Reading Room is organized by 10×10 Photobooks, a New York City-based nonprofit with a mission to support the global photobook community.

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Salon #80 — Ashima Yadava and Philo Cohen of Speciwomen
2025-05-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Magnum Foundation, 59 East 4th Street, 7W, New York, New York, 10003, United States
Please join 10×10 Photobooks for a Photobook Salon at the Magnum Foundation with Ashima Yadava and Philo Cohen of Speciewomen.

Ashima Yadava is a conceptual documentary photographer and curator. She works on long-form stories focusing on issues of gender equality and racial justice and believes in art as a means to social activism and reform. Born in New Delhi and based in San Francisco, her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the de Young Museum, the Rotterdam Photo Festival, the United Nations and ICP, New York. Ashima is an inaugural fellow of the California Arts Council and the founder of Huq: I Seek No Favor.

Huq: I Seek No Favor brings together voices of over 100 artists, writers and thinkers in a collective response to the abortion ban. Overcome with anger and disbelief, Yadava divided the 213-page U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs opinion into sections and invited a diverse group of artists to create art out of them. Rooted in defiance and multicultural solidarity, Huq calls for ongoing resistance and empowerment in the face of a system that perpetuates historical inequities and seeks to use women’s bodies as a tool of their oppression.

Philo Cohen is a publisher, researcher and creative consultant. She is the founder and director of Speciwomen, an independent arts non-profit dedicated to shifting representation in the arts by providing space, time, and resources to womxn artists. Through publications, exhibitions, and an artist residency project run out of her apartment in New York, she fosters the development of impactful and long-lasting support for artists. Cohen has participated in public programming and conversations globally, including events at the Whitney Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, and TEDx conferences.

Speciwomen is a non-profit arts organization committed to giving space to women and LGBTQIA+ artists for retreat, research and making. We seek to challenge existing norms, promote inclusivity, and contribute to a more equitable representation of marginalized voices in the arts landscape. Philo Cohen started Speciwomen in 2015, aiming to foster safer and wider spaces for womxn artists to be recognized and heard.

Magnet is a funded artist-in-residence program hosted by Speciwomen welcoming artists from outside of New York to spend time and make work in the city. Our headquarters are set up as a home and research center based in lower Manhattan. Each artist will have access to a shared live-in space, the Speciwomen Library and a private studio space for the duration of the residency.

Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print Reading Room at CPW Kingston
2025-05-24 08:00 - 2025-08-31 17:00 | CPW Kingston, 25 Dederick Street, New York, 12401, United States
Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950–Present explores the diverse roles and varying aesthetics that photography in print undertakes in its support of protest and political resistance. The exhibition comprises photobooks, zines, reproductions of posters, pamphlets, independent journals and alternative newspapers from all over the world that address—and participate in—protest. Visitors will be able to peruse a hands-on reading room featuring many of the photobooks and zines included in the book titled Flashpoint!, edited by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich (10×10 Photobooks, 2024). The works in the exhibition reflect the thematic structure of the original 10×10 book, organized into seven topics: Anti, Gender, Displacement, Race & Class, Environment, Political, and War & Violence.

Some of the questions prompted by this powerful collection of media include: Is protest photography a “tool” conceived through an “aesthetic of urgency” to be used during events as they unfold, as in an anonymously designed poster or ink-stained fliers plastered on street walls? How do we consider an elegantly designed photobook, published a year or more after an event, often with the help of well-known photographers, writers and designers, so as to document a past uprising? Whether outright rage or a more subtle artist-driven commentary, Flashpoint! covers all of these formats and sometimes transcends rigid media definitions, as it blurs the lines between what constitutes a book, zine, journal, poster or newspaper.

Gallery HoursThursday: 11:00 am – 5:00 pmFriday: 11:00 am – 5:00 pmSaturday: 11:00 am – 5:00 pmSunday: 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

NYC Democratic Socialists — Flashpoint! Talk
2025-07-01 19:00 - 20:30 | The People’s Forum, 320 West 37th Street, New York, New York
The New York City Democratic Socialists host a Flashpoint! book event. Join NYC-DSA members Romke Hoogwaerts and Niko Nikias of the City Political Education Organizing Committee in conversation with Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich about the photographic materials showcased in Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present. Presented by NYCDSA Citywide Political Education.

Speak Up! Protest Zines as Resistance
2025-07-12 11:00 - 2025-08-10 17:00 | CPW Kingston, 25 Dederick Street, New York, 12401, United States
Calling all zine-makers!

Speak Up! Protest Zines as Resistance is a reading room of protest and resistance zines from the 10×10 Photobooks and CPW communities.

Hosted in association with the Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print Reading Room, this reading room features self-published zines contributed by artists and activists from around the world via an ongoing Open Call. Created outside traditional publishing systems and often using simple, accessible tools, the zines speak to protest not just in content, but in form. Raw, urgent, and deeply personal, they remind us that self-publishing can be an act of defiance—and that print remains a powerful medium for amplifying voices.

CPW, founded in 1977 as the Center for Photography at Woodstock, is dedicated to achieving social change via photography.

Closing Reception for Speak Up! Protest Zines as ResistanceSaturday, 9 August from 6-7:30 pm

CPW Photobook + Zine Fair9 – 10 August from 11-6 pm

10×10 Salon: The Photobook and ResistanceSunday, 10 August from 11 am – 12:30 pm

There is still time to submit your photo-based zine! Submission of zines is ongoing until 2 August.

Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair 2025
2025-09-11 00:00 - 2025-09-14 23:59 | MoMA PS 1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, New York, 11101, United States
Join 10×10 Photobooks at Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair this week:Table H8

We will be showcasing our Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print anthology and many of the contemporary and rare protest books, zines and newspapers found within its pages!

Contemporary and rare books / zines by: All Japan Students Photo Association, Mariette Pathy Allen, The Archive of Public Protests, Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones, Julien Besançon, Julio Cesar Cardoso, Solmaz Daryani, David Douglas Duncan, Robert Dunn, Thana Faroq, Harrell Fletcher, Leonard Freed, Kikujiro Fukushima, Rosa Gauditano, Kris Graves, Anthony Howarth, Bun’yo Ishikawa, Masamitsu Kurakawa, Eugene Richards, Jordan Seiler, W. Eugene Smith and Aileen M. Smith, Hitomi Watanabe, Ruvan Wijesooriya, Ashima Yadava and Koh Yoshioka.

Fair HoursThursday, 11 September: 7–10 PMFriday, 12 September: 11 AM – 7 PMSaturday, 13 September: 11 AM – 7 PMSunday, 14 September: 12–6 PM

How We See What They Saw
2025-09-15 08:00 - 2025-11-21 17:00 | George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030, United States
A “Micro” Reading Room of Photobooks by Women at George Mason University. Inspired by 10×10 Photobooks’ How We See: Photobooks by Women (2017) and What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999.

In 1843, the British botanist Anna Atkins published her photographs of algae, creating the first photographically illustrated book. Since then, women have continued to make significant and important contributions to the medium, but these works are often undervalued or unrecognized.

Inspired by the 10×10 Photobooks exhibitions and publications How We See: Photobooks by Women (2018) and What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999 (2021), Fenwick Gallery will host a reading room showcasing photobooks by women and non-binary artists selected from the University Library’s collections.

Featuring self-published works from small presses to trade editions and exhibition catalogs from commercial publishers, How We See What They Saw includes over 80 photobooks and monographs, dating from 1843 to 2025, which highlight the dynamic contributions women around the world have made to photography and the photobook medium.

The How We See What They Saw micro-reading room draws from the holdings and special collections at the George Mason University Libraries and was realized at the university’s Fenwick Gallery by J Carrier, Stephanie H. Grimm, Donald H. Russell, Liz Louise Johnson, Michael McDermott, Jeffrey Kenney and Ben Bowen with thanks to: Zoë Charlton, Anne Osterman, Lynn Eaton and the staff of the Fenwick Library Access Services team.

ICP Photobook Fest
2025-10-02 12:00 - 2025-10-05 17:00 | International Center of Photography, 84 Ludlow Street, New York, New York, United States
Join 10×10 Photobooks at the ICP Photobook Fest!

The 2025 ICP Photobook Fest hosts over 70 publishers and vendors selling and promoting photography books, magazines, and zine publications during a three-day weekend event welcoming over 2,500 visitors to ICP’s center on the Lower East Side.

Thursday, 2 October 6 PM – 9 PMFriday, 3 October10:30 AM – 6:30 PM

Saturday, 4 October10:30 AM – 6:30 PMSunday, 5 October11 AM – 5 PM

Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print Reading Room @ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2025-10-09 11:00 - 2026-01-24 19:00 | Hirsch Library / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas, 77005, United States
Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950–Present is a reading room exhibition focusing on global protest photography in print through a presentation of photobooks, zines, posters, pamphlets, independent journals, and alternative newspapers that address protest and resistance from the 1950s to the present. Since its inception, photography has captured key historical moments and served as both a tool and a document of political protest. By placing photobooks in conversation with posters, DIY zines, and independent journals, Flashpoint! explores the diverse roles and aesthetics of the medium in its support of protest and resistance. This hands-on reading room was organized by 10×10 Photobooks, a non-profit organization that fosters engagement with the global photobook community.

All the books on view in this reading room come from the permanent collection of the Hirsch Library.

Library Hours:Wednesday and Friday, 11 am to 5 pmThursday, 11 am to 7 pm Saturday, 12 pm to 5 pm

Related Event9 October at 6:30 pm / Danny Lyon: Conversation with a Photobook Maker

Danny Lyon: Conversation with a Photobook Maker
2025-10-09 18:30 - 19:30 | Hirsch Library / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas, 77005, United States
The Museum’s Hirsch Library brings together Danny Lyon and Russet Lederman to explore the impact that Lyon’s work has made on both our culture at large and the development of photobooks as a genre.

Danny Lyon is among the most influential documentary photographers of the past six decades. Known for his immersive approach, Lyon’s intensive investigations have resulted in numerous seminal photobooks on subjects as diverse as the Civil Rights Movement, a Chicago motorcycle club, the destruction of Lower Manhattan, Native American reservations, and the Texas prison system. Lyon is joined in this conversation by Russet Lederman, New York City-based writer, editor, photobook collector, and co-founder of 10×10 Photobooks. Lederman is co-coordinator of the Flashpoint! exhibition.

This conversation is offered in conjunction with the opening of Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present, an exhibition and reading room that presents a global selection of photobooks, zines, posters, pamphlets, independent journals, and alternative newspapers addressing protest and resistance from the past 75 years.

A book signing and opening reception for the Flashpoint! exhibition follow in the Hirsch Library.

Fall of Freedom
2025-11-21 08:00 - 2025-11-22 17:00 | New York
Flashpoint! Reading Room @ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston joins nationwide expression of creative resistance.

Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation. Our Democracy is under attack. Threats to free expression are rising. Dissent is being criminalized. Institutions and media have been recast as mouthpieces of propaganda. More information about the project and how to get involved: falloffreedom.com

10×10×MF Photobooks Salon with Isadora Romero and Sofía Granados Dyer
2026-02-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Magnum Foundation, 59 East 4th Street, 7W, New York, New York, 10003, United States
Please join 10×10 Photobooks and the Magnum Foundation for a salon with Isadora Romero and Sofía Granados Dyer on Wednesday, 18 February from 6 to 8 pm at the Magnum Foundation, 59 East 4th Street, 7th Floor, New York City

Isadora Romero (@isadoraromerophoto) is an Ecuadorian independent visual storyteller based in Quito. Her work moves between documentary and artistic photography, focusing on social justice, gender, environment, and agrobiodiversity in Latin America. She is co-founder of Ruda, a collective of Latin American women photographers. Her work has been exhibited across Latin America, Europe, and Africa. She has been awarded by C/O Berlin, Les Rencontres d’Arles, World Press Photo, and POY Latam, and has received fellowships from Magnum Foundation, Prince Claus Fund, National Geographic, and World Press Photo. She is the author of the photobook Un Movimiento para poder verte (Moving, to See You, 2025).

A living, though inexact, memory guides the steps of Isadora Romero P. in her search to uncover the family heritage that flows through her veins—one that also allows her to enter into a discussion as ancient as it is current: the loss of the cultural, ecological, and symbolic diversity of seeds as a consequence of capitalist modernity. Led by a luminous image—that of her great-great-grandmother Fulgencia Pisco—the photographer embarks on an inquiry into seeds as sources of life, resistance, and affective repair. Winner of the 2024 Nuevo Mariano Aguilera Award in the Publication category, Un Movimiento para poder verte (Moving, to See You. Severo Editorial, 2025) gathers a body of work that took more than six years to complete and spanned four countries (Paraguay, Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico), where Isadora investigates the social and personal conflicts arising from the processes of loss and recovery of ancestral knowledge, as well as the tensions between intimate memory and global conservation policies.

Isadora Romero, Un Movimiento para poder verte (Moving, to See You, Severo Editorial, 2025)

Sofía Granados Dyer (@phtsdr_books) co-edits EBB, a bilingual Russian-English publication responding to fascism around the world. Drawing from the rich samizdat tradition, each book is made entirely by hand and distributed through grassroots networks. EBB is also a charity project with every cent going directly to victims of war, incarceration, and political violence. Apart from EBB, Granados Dyer directs public programming at picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom in NYC. In this role, she has interviewed photographers including Rahim Fortune, Matt Black, Yelena Yemchuk and Daniel Arnold.

Granados Dyer is excited to discuss EBB Issue 2 and Issue 3, both of which offer insight into censorship, moral clarity, and the limits of representation. EBB Issue 2: What Have We Done(2023) was created in direct response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The publication explores fascism, imperialism, and moral responsibility across media. EBB Issue 3: Strength of Materials (2025) takes its title from a branch of engineering developed by Ukrainian engineer Stepan Tymoshenko, which analyzes how much stress physical materials can sustain before collapsing. Released in the fall of 2025, the publication reflects on the perseverance of activism and artistic expression in the face of indefinitely prolonged political crises.

Granados Dyer will additionally share maquettes and photographs from work in progress. Among them is a photo project that deals with the violent history of crash test dummies, as well as an artist’s book exploring material and psychological deformity in connection to Christian liturgy.

Sofía Granados Dyer, EBB Issue 3: Strength of Materials (2025)

Flashpoint! Reading Room at Printed Matter
2026-03-12 11:00 - 2026-05-31 18:00 | Printed Matter, 231 11th Ave, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Printed Matter presents Flashpoint!, a traveling reading room exhibition organized by 10×10 Photobooks dedicated to protest photography in print. The presentation brings together a selection of photobooks, zines, posters, pamphlets, independent journals, and alternative newspapers from the 1950s to the present. Across these formats, photography emerges as both a tool of protest and a cultural artifact of resistance, capturing political struggles as they unfold and as they are later remembered.

On view March 12-May 31, 2026. Opening reception March 12, 6-8 pm

Related EventsProtest and Resistance PostersPanel Discussion at Printed MatterAdrian Franks, Arthur Fournier and Daylon OrrThursday, 2 April, 6 pmDetails

History Repeats Itself: Curating ProtestSponsored by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public LibraryPanel Discussion at The New York Public LibraryLa Tanya Autry and Maggie Mustard, moderated by Deirdre DonohueWednesday, 13 May, 6 pm

By placing photobooks alongside posters, DIY zines, pamphlets, and independent journals, Flashpoint! highlights the manifold roles photography plays in resistance movements. Many featured works are a direct product of activist intervention, while others are carefully constructed publications made retrospectively with the intention to contextualize a historical event. This diversity of works is reflected in their wide spectrum of aesthetic approaches, which range from raw and immediate to deliberate and methodical. Presented together, these materials prompt questions about how images circulate within movements, how urgency shapes visual language, and how protest is recorded (and reinterpreted) through print.

The Reading Room is structured thematically into seven broad sections: Anti, Gender, Displacement, Race & Class, Environment, Political, and War & Violence. Each features multiple sub-themes which document resistance related to anti-government, anti-globalization, women’s rights, AIDS, anti-apartheid, civil rights, anti-imperialism, workers’ rights, territorial disputes, student protests, national populism, anti-colonialism, revolution and gun violence, among others.

Authors and artists with works in this iteration of the Flashpoint! Reading Room:Laia Abril; Aghi; aka TAWLA; Devin Allen; Morgan Ashcom; Mathieu Asselin; Ruth-Marion Baruch & Pirkle Jones; Makeda Best; Lukas Birk; The Black Panthers; Steve Bloom, Laurie Bloomfield, Rick Kollektiff & Peter Magubane; Arthur Bondar; The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective; Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin; Julio Cesar Cardoso; Eric Timothy Carlson; Gilles Caron; Chestnut Burr: Kent State University; Alessandro Cinque; Ernest Cole; Tano D’Amico; Solmaz Daryani; Doris Derby; Roy Decarava, Jill Krementz, Danny Lyon & Marion Palfi; Emory Douglas; David Douglas Duncan; Robert Dunn; Thana Faroq; Harrell Fletcher; LaToya Ruby Frazier; Leonard Freed; Paul Fusco; Paolo Gasparini; Rosa Gauditano; Karolina Gembara; X González; Suzanne Gordon & Alan Copeland; Kris Graves; Philip Jones Griffiths; Anthony Hamboussi; Anthony Haughey; Lucy Helton; Tim Hetherington; Anthony Howarth; Sanja Iveković; Bahman Jalali & Rana Javadi; Katayoun Javan; Rigoberto Díaz Julían; Gilbert Kahn, Pierre Juillet, Christian Joubert & Michel Hermans; Kikuji Kawada; Carole Kismaric; Kazuo Kitai; Justine Kurland; Sonia Lenzi; Mary Levine & John Naisbitt; Émeric Lhuisset; March for Our Lives; Fred McDarrah; Susan Meiselas; Rafal Milach; Mashid Mohadjerin; Zed Nelson; Molly Neuman & Allison Wolfe; Satomi Nihongi; Mariette Pathy Allen; Jill Posener; Moises Saman; Kwon San-Ki, Park Seung-hwa, Song Hyeok, Lee Sohye & Lim Seok Hyun; Paul Seawright; Jordan Seiler; George Selley; Linda Simpson; Stephen Shames & Ericka Huggins; Abdo Shanan; W. Eugene Smith & Aileen M. Smith; Joel Sternfeld; Koji Taki, Takuma Nakahira, Yutaka Takanashi, Takahiko Okada & Daido Moriyama; Anastasia Taylor-Lind; Hiromitsu Toyosaki; Bas Vroege, Raoul Gottschling & Noemí; Brian Weil; Wellington Zinefest and Te Pūranga Takatāpui o Aotearoa; Koen Wessing; D’Angelo Lovell Williams; Carmen Winant; Dale Wittig; Ashima Yadava, and Xu Yong.

The presentation is based on Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present, an anthology published by 10×10 Photobooks in 2024, edited by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich.

Buy the Publication

Original posters loaned by Fugitive Materials.

Printed Matter Hours:Monday ClosedTuesday–Saturday: 11 am–7 pmSunday: 11 am – 6 pm

Koji Taki, Provoke 3 (1969)

Rosa Gauditano, A mesma Luta (2021)

“O Que Elas Viram” Reading Room at Instituto Moreira Salles Photography Library
2026-03-17 10:00 - 2026-08-02 20:00 | Instituto Moreira Salles, Avenida Paulista, 2424, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Hosted by the IMS Paulista Photography Library in São Paulo, Brazil, O que elas viram: fotolivros históricos de mulheres / What They Saw Reading Room at the Instituto Moreira Salles draws from its extensive women’s photobook collection, which includes the recently acquired “Coleção 10×10 Photobooks: Fotolivros Históricos de Mulheres.” Composed of 106 photobooks by women, purchased by 10×10 Photobooks for research, documentation and exhibition purposes to support the publication and its international reading room tour, this collection augments the IMS Library’s already impressive holdings and ensures the ongoing visibility and accessibility of the What They Saw Collection of photobooks by women.

The IMS Library is a unique initiative in Brazil. With a capacity of 30,000 items, it aims to encourage research in the field of photography and contribute to the understanding of photography in its various forms of expression. The collection comprises publications on and about photography, also encompassing its developments in fields such as film, fashion, visual arts, and humanities.

17 March – 31 August 2026Tuesday to Sunday: 10 am to 8 pmFree admission

Tuesday, 17 March, 6:30 pm Opening Reception + Talkwith Russet Lederman from 10×10 PhotobooksInstituto Moreira Salles LibrarySala de Aula (IMS Library Mezzanine)Free admission. Tickets distributed 60 minutes before the event(Limit of 1 ticket per person)
