INSTAsalon #64 - Francesca Todd and Giuseppe Scarpelli
2021-03-17 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Francesca Todde, photographerLive from Milan, withGiuseppe Scarpelli, printerLive from BolzanoDiscussing Todde’s A Sensitive Education (Départ Pour l’Image, 2020)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CMh3lM7lDKn/

INSTAsalon #65 - Jona Frank and Alan Rapp
2021-03-24 13:00 - 14:00
Jona Frank, photographerLive from California, withAlan Rapp, editorial directorLive from New YorkDiscussing Frank’s Cherry Hill: A Childhood Reimagined (Monacelli Press, 2020)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CMz5UYyF68q/

INSTAsalon #66 - Kiliii Yüyan
2021-03-30 13:00 - 14:00
Kiliii Yüyan, photographerAuthor of Chukotka (Kris Graves Projects, 2020)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/COLh4FnlqRo/

INSTAsalon #67 - Karolina Gembara and Meg Handler
2021-04-08 13:00 - 14:00
Karolina Gembara, photographerLive from Warsaw, withMeg Handler, photographerLive from ChicagoDiscussing the Archive of Public Protest’s Strike newspaper and photo-activism

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CNag0wLlN81/

INSTAsalon #68 - Anaïs Horn and Federica Chiocchetti
2021-04-14 13:00 - 14:00
Anaïs Horn, photographerLive from Vienna, withFederica Chiocchetti, editor and writerLive from Lucca, ItalyDiscussing Horn’s Je suis malheureuse et heureuse (Meta/Books, 2020)and How do you feel about “Louˮ? (in collaboration with Eilert Asmervik; Meta/Books, 2020)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CNp9gBzFrBN/

INSTAsalon #69 - Giya Makondo-Wills
2021-04-21 13:00 - 14:00
Giya Makondo-Wills, photographerLive from The NetherlandsAuthor of They Came From the Water While the World Watched (The Lost Light Recordings, 2021)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CN7-KPfFZyA/

INSTAsalon #70 - Catherine E. McKinley with Romi Crawford
2021-04-29 13:00 - 14:00
Catherine E. McKinley, curator, collector and writerLive from New York, withRomi Crawford, cultural theoristLive from ChicagoDiscussing McKinley’s The African Lookbook (Bloomsbury, 2021)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/COQmE7TFgbi/

INSTAsalon #71 - Hannah Whitaker, Nicholas Muellner, and Catherine Taylor
2021-05-05 13:00 - 14:00
Hannah Whitaker, photographerLive from Brooklyn, with Nicholas Muellner, artist and writerLive from Los Angeles, andCatherine Taylor, writer, editor and educatorLive from Ithaca, NYDiscussing Whitaker’s Ursula (iTi Press, 2021)

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INSTAsalon #72 - Katherine Yungmee Kim and Suzanne Maria Menghraj
2021-05-13 13:00 - 14:00
Katherine Yungmee Kim, writerLive from Los Angeles, withSuzanne Maria Menghraj, essayistLive from BrooklynDiscussing Kim’s Longitude (Datz Press, 2021)(USA purchase here)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CO1S6dgF2qi/

INSTAsalon #73 - Deanna Dikeman and Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi
2021-05-19 13:00 - 14:00
Deanna Dikeman, photographerLive from Kansas City, Misssouri, withCécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, publisherLive from MarseilleDiscussing Dikeman’s Leaving and Waving (Chose Commune, 2021)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CPEFGnKlDlA/

INSTAsalon #74 - Jo Ratcliffe, Russet Lederman, and Laurence Vecten
2021-05-26 13:00 - 14:00
Jo Ractliffe, photographer with Laurence Vecten, editor and Russet Lederman, editor Live from Cape Town, Paris and New YorkDiscussing Two Men Arrive in a Village: Photographs by Jo Ractliffe with a Story by Zadie Smith (The Gould Collection, 2021)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CPWG4R3l1is/

INSTAsalon #75 - Luis Carlos Tovar and Daniel Mebarek
2021-06-03 13:00 - 14:00
Luis Carlos Tovar, visual artist and educator, with Daniel Mebarek, writer and photographer Live from ParisDiscussing Tovar’s Jardín de me padre (Editorial RM / Musée de l’Elysée, 2020)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CPqsk0tlZqU/

INSTAsalon #77 - Reynaldo Rivera
2021-06-16 17:00 - 18:00
Reynaldo Rivera, photographer, andLauren Mackler, curatorLive from Los AngelesDiscussing Rivera’s Provisional Notes for a Disappeared City (Semiotext(e), 2020)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CQMnL3HF-JH/

INSTAsalon #78 - Jenny Riffle and Molly Landreth
2021-06-23 13:00 - 14:00
Jenny Riffle, photographer, andMolly Landreth, photographerLive from SeattleCo-authors of It’s Raining…I Love You (Minor Matters, 2020)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CQeNDmjF2gd/

INSTAsalon #79 - Clémentine de la Féronnière
2021-07-15 13:00 - 14:00
Clémentine de la Féronnière, publisher and gallerist Live from ParisCo-publisher of James Barnor: The Roadmaker (RRB Photobooks / Maison CF, 2021)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CRW2yxvKrEc/

INSTAsalon #80 - Dániel Szalai
2021-07-21 13:00 - 14:00
Dániel Szalai, photographer Live from BudapestAuthor of Novogen (The Eriskay Connection, 2021)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CRmSwbBFNEb/

INSTAsalon #81 - Katinka Goldberg and Ethan Rafal
2021-10-22 13:00 - 14:00
Katinka Goldberg, visual artist with Ethan Rafal, artistLive from OsloDiscussing Goldberg’s Bristningar (Journal, 2021)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CVVw8wnqgmE/

INSTAsalon #82 - Martina Zanin and Daria Tuminas
2021-10-28 13:00 - 14:00
Martina Zanin, visual artist Live from Romewith Daria Tuminas, curator and writerLive from RotterdamDiscussing Zanin’s I Made Them Run Away (Skinnerboox, 2021)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CVlOELpq7mn/

INSTAsalon #83 - Muhammad Fadli
2021-11-18 10:30 - 11:30
Muhammad Fadli, photographer Live from JakartaAuthor of The Banda Journal (Jordan, jordan Édition, 2021)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWbIIVblmCk/

INSTAsalon #84 - Rich-Joseph Facun
2021-12-01 13:00 - 14:00
Rich-Joseph Facun, photographerwith Jasmine Facun, editor and collaboratorLive from Athens, OhioDiscussing Black Diamonds (Fall Line Press, 2021)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CW83iMkFg6_/

INSTAsalon #85 - Solmaz Daryani and Svetlana Bachevanova
2021-12-09 13:00 - 14:00
Solmaz Daryani, photographerwith Svetlana Bachevanova, founder and director of FotoEvidenceLive from London and New YorkDiscussing Daryani’s The Eyes of Earth (FotoEvidence, 2021)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CXRdy5eFsZn/

INSTAsalon #86 - Rafal Milach and Jörg Colberg
2022-01-20 13:00 - 14:00
Rafał Milach, photographer with Jörg Colberg, writer, photographer and educator Live from Warsaw and MassachusettsDiscussing STRAJK / STRIKE (Jednostka Gallery, 2021)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CY9n0A9FOLk/

Salon #54 - Luis Weinstein / Photobooks from Chile
2022-02-09 18:30 - 20:30
9 February 2022: 10×10 hosted a salon on photobooks from Chile with photographer Luis Weinstein in a private home in Manhattan.

Chile Ayer Hoy, Sergio Larrain’s El rectangulo en la mano and Alfonso Alcalde’s Vivir o morir.

Chilean publications written with photographs have a long tradition of over 150 years and cover a wide range of genres, from photobook essays to almost hand-made visual poetry, from political propaganda to large coffee table books to albums edited by private companies. Talented authors, graphic designers and editors have established an incredibly diverse repertory. Weinstein, co-editor of Una Revisión al Fotolibro Chileno (A Review of the Chilean Photobook), will share his deep knowledge of historical and contemporary photobooks from Chile.

Luis Weinstein’s Volume No. 2 of Ediciones de fotografia Chilena and Enrique Lihn /E ugenio Dittborn’s Lihn y pompier.

Luis Weinstein is a documentary photographer and editor, as well as lecturer and researcher on photography. He has a degree in Communications and a Master’s in Cultural Management. Weinstein founded the South American photomagazine, Sueño de la Razón. He is the author of ten photobooks and has participated in over 40 exhibitions in diverse venues, including museums and photo festivals, since 1977.

David Solo explores some of the Chilean photobooks on view.

Luis Weinstein showing books.

Books on view.

Luis Weinstein discussing historical Chilean Photobooks.

Salon #55 - Anita Pouchard Serra and Matarile Ediciones
2022-03-02 18:30 - 20:30
2 March 2022: 10×10 hosted a salon with photographer Anita Pouchard Serra and artist / publisher Martha Naranjo Sandoval of Matarile Ediciones with photographer groana melendez at the Center for Book Arts in Manhattan.

Anita Pouchard Serra, Espera(nza) (self-published, 2021).

Anita Pouchard Serra (@anitapouchardserra) is a French-Argentinian visual storyteller working on stories that affect her personally, connecting to current societal issues such as identity, migration and women’s rights via an interdisciplinary approach. Her work has been supported by the Pulitzer Center, the IWMF, Open Society Foundations and National Geographic and published in The New York Times, Bloomberg, Le Monde and The Washington Post. Pouchard Serra, who has exhibited worldwide, is also a visual storytelling teacher and lecturer.

groana melendez, West 176 Street / Martha Naranjo Sandoval, Sangre de mi Sangre / Cristina Velásquez, Quiéreme Mucho (Love me a lot) (all Matarile Ediciones, 2021).

Matarile Ediciones (@matarileediciones) is an artist-run photobook publisher that focuses on artists who are immigrants, their children, or part of a recent diaspora. They are based in Mexico City and Brooklyn, New York.

Martha Naranjo Sandoval (@martha_mydear) is a New York-based filmmaker and visual artist from Mexico City. Her work focuses on the materiality of images—in the difference between how time is portrayed in moving and still images—and how images gain significance culturally. She is the founder and director of Matarile Ediciones and works for Dashwood Books. She holds a degree in Film a Television from Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión (Mexico City), and an MFA from the International Center of Photography and Bard College.

Left: groana melendez, West 176 Street. Right: Martha Naranjo Sandoval, Sangre de mi Sangre.

groana melendez (@groana), raised between New York City and Santo Domingo, is a lens-based artist whose work explores hybrid identities through self-representation. She holds an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from the International Center of Photography-Bard Program and has been part of residencies at Proyecto ‘Ace, Diaspora Vibe Arts Incubator, and ARC Athens. She works and lives in the Bronx.

Corina Reynolds of the Center for Book Arts introduces the salon presenters.

Anita Pouchard Serra discusses Espera(nza).

Anita Pouchard Serra, Martha Naranjo Sandoval and grona melendez.

A big thank you to Corina Reynolds and Camilo Otero at the Center for Book Arts for hosting this salon.

Salon #56 — Justine Kurland, Laura Larson
2022-03-31 18:30 - 20:30
Join us for an in-person salon with photographers Justine Kurland and Laura Larson.

RSVP required

Inspired by Valerie Solanas’ iconoclastic feminist tract SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, SCUMB Manifesto (MACK, 2022) introduces us to photographer Justine Kurland’s uncompromising initiative: the Society for Cutting Up Men’s Books. This volume presents collages Kurland created by cutting up and reconfiguring photobooks by male artists as she went through the process of purging her own library of books by straight white men that have monopolized the photographic canon. Her ritual is restorative and loving: each work is a reclamation of history, a dismemberment of the patriarchy, a gender inversion of the usual terms of possession, and a modest attempt at offsetting a life of income disparity. Kurland is known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and their fringe communities—these compositions are a continuation of her ongoing project of creating space for women.

Justine Kurland (@justine4good) studied photography at the School of Visual Arts and Yale University. Recent monographs include Justine Kurland: Girl Pictures (Aperture, 2020) and The Stick (TIS, 2021).

City of Incurable Women (Saint Lucy Books, 2022) pictures the complex lives of 19th-century women, diagnosed as suffering from hysteria, who were hospitalized at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. Incorporating a broad range of materials, Laura Larson‘s second book layers archival imagery with her own photographs and texts, speculating through the documented accounts of the women’s illness. She imagines the women as a collective, making a claim for their shared knowledge and the pleasures and risks of escape. Embracing photography’s capacity to feel, City of Incurable Women sees these women as unruly spirits that haunt the present, mining the radical possibilities of empathy and resistance.

Laura Larson (@laura_larson_studio) is a photographer and writer based in Columbus. Her first book, Hidden Mother (Saint Lucy Books, 2017), was shortlisted for the Aperture-Paris Photo First Photobook Prize.

AIPAD Talk
2022-04-20 13:00 - 14:00
Join Olga Yatskevich and Russet Lederman, co-founders of 10×10 Photobooks, for a virtual discussion about What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1991, winner of the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photography Catalogue of the Year Award for 2021.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Additional resources mentioned in the talk:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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