10x10 Photobooks

Flashpoint! Reading Room at Printed Matter
2026-03-12 11:00 - 2026-05-31 18:00 (America/New_York) | 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)
