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2024 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
Flashpoint!, an anthology 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.
Edited by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich (New York City: 10×10 Photobooks, 2024)
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Watch video of selected pages from Flashpoint!
Press:
The Nation: Excerpt from Mark Sealy’s Essay in Flashpoint!
Paris Photo-Aperture: Announcing the 2024 Shortlist
British Journal of Photography by Dalia Al-Dujaili
The Eye of Photography by Carole Naggar
Photo-eye 2024 Favorite Books selected by Christian Patterson and Adam Bell
Aperture (Winter 2025 Issue—Print) by Aaron Peck
1000 Words: Top 10 (+1) Photobooks of 2024, Selected by Tim Clark and Thomas King
Gabriela Cendoya: The Long List of the Books I Loved This Year
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. Whether migration crises, territorial disputes, gender inequity, class divisions, racism, war, gun violence or environmental concerns, 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. In placing photobooks next to posters, DIY zines and independent journals, Flashpoint! explores the diverse roles and varying aesthetics that photography in print undertakes in its support of protest and resistance. Is it 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 flier plastered on street walls? Or an elegantly designed photobook, published a year or more later, often with the help of well-known photographers, writers and designers, to document a past uprising? Whether outright rage or a more subtle artist-driven commentary, protest photography in print 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.
Surveying more than 245 photography in print assets, Flashpoint! is structured thematically into seven broad chapters: Anti, Gender, Displacement, Race & Class, Environment, Political and War & Violence. Each chapter includes multiple sub-themes that address 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. Included are illustrations and detailed descriptions of photography books, fliers, journals, alternative newspapers, posters and zines from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, France, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Zealand, Spain, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and more!
Structured as a traveling reading room, publication and series of public events, the project will launch in November 2024 with the release of this publication at Paris Photo. An associated reading room will tour internationally.
Contributing Essayists: Makeda Best, Hannah Darabi, Arthur Fournier, Marc Feustel, Kerry Manders, Elisa Medde, Mark Sealy and Pauline Vermare.
Contributing Book Description Researchers-Writers: Kyle Canter, Claire Carcara, Kimber Chewning, Diana Flatto, Keavy Handley-Byrne, Nawang Tsomo Kinkar, Eliza McDonough, Casey Monroe, Frankie Moutafis, Marjorie Ornston and Alexandra Varga.
Publisher: 10×10 Photobooks, NYC
Date of Publication: 2024 (November)
Size: 31 high x 24 wide cm (12.2 x 9.5 inches)
Pages: 576
Images: 760
Binding: Softbound with dust jacket, Smith sewn binding
Edition Size: 2000 copies
Editors: Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich
Associate Editor: Jeff Gutterman
Publication Work-Scholar: Shea Baasch
Designer: Huber/Sterzinger and Miloš Gavrić
Lithography: Colour & Books
Printer: Ofset Yapimevi in Istanbul, Turkey
ISBN: 979-8-218-45950-5
10×10 is grateful to the Flashpoint! Book Committee for their generous support of this publication: Anonymous, Phillip Block, Frédérique Destribats, The Grace Jones Richardson Family Trust, Loring and Diana Knoblauch, Andrew and Mariana Lewin Family Foundation, Sandra Lipsman, Lanie and Paul McNulty, Setsuko Ono, Richard Sun and Alice Zimet.