10x10 Photobooks

Danny Lyon: Conversation with a Photobook Maker
2025-10-09 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | 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
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.

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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)
