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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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Video of book here
Flashpoint! Reading Room (schedule here)
A hands-on touring reading room exhibition sharing a selection of the protest and resistance books, posters, zines and indie journals showcased in Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present publication launched in May 2025 and will travel through 2027.
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 Photobooks of 2024, selected by Tim Clark & Thomas King
PhMuseum by Colin Pantall
El País by Gloria Crespo Maclennan (PDF also available)
Brooklyn Rail by Eric Miles
Hyperallergic, Contact Photography Festival
ARLIS/NA Reviews by Anaïs Grateau
The Eye of Photography by Benjamin Rullier
Musée Magazine (Contact Reading Room Review) by Greer Valaquenta
POV by Peter Watson (Print only – PDF)
Gabriela Cendoya: The Long List of the Books I Loved This Year
The Phoblographer by Nilofer Khan
Literatur Haus Kassel by Thomas Wiegand
Musée Magazine (CPW Reading Room Review)
Chronogram by Margot Issacs
Trigger #6: Assemblies by Farah Abdessamad
Zeke Magazine Book Review
Blind Magazine by Itzel Robles Sandoval
Times Union by Matt Moment
Foam Magazine Bookshelf: Ayumi Higuchi
Maribor Photobooks Award 2025 Special Mention
Bronx Documentary Center: Essential Reading by Myrtille Beauvert
Fonts in Use by Miloš Gavrić
Talks and Presentations
Flashpoint! Conversation with Lesley Martin, Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich (video), Printed Matter, NYC, 21 January 2025
Photography and Text in Protest: A Panel Discussion with Arthur Fournier, Kris Graves and Kyle Canter (video), Grolier Club, NYC, 28 February 2025
Flashpoint! Talk & Gathering with Russet Lederman & Olga Yatskevich, Olivian Cha, Noé Montes and Marjorie Ornston, These Days, Los Angeles, 6 April 2025
NYC-DSA Citywide Political Education Presents: Flashpoint!, The People’s Forum, New York City, 1 July 2025
The Photobook and Resistance with Mariette Pathy Allen, Keavy Handely-Byrne, D’Angelo Lovell Williams, & Ashima Yadava, CPW, Kingston, NY, 10 August 2025
Danny Lyon: Conversation with a Photobook Maker, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 9 October 2025
Political Protest Posters: Conversation with Arthur Fournier, Adrian Franks and Daylon Orr, Printed Matter, New York City, 2 April 2026
For Wholesale Inquires:
EU: Idea Books — idea@ideabooks.nl
Idea Books: Flashpoint! book page
UK: Public Knowledge Books — sales@publicknowledgebooks.com
Public Knowledge Books: Flashpoint! book page
Japan: Twelvebooks — contact@twelve-books.com
USA: 10×10 Photobooks — info@10x10photobooks.org
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 fliers 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!
Contributing Essayists: Makeda Best, Hannah Darabi, Arthur Fournier, Marc Feustel, Kerry Manders, Elisa Medde, Mark Sealy and Pauline Vermare.
Book Description Researchers and 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.
New York: 10×10 Photobooks, 2024 (November)
31 x 24 cm, 576 pages, 760 images
Softcover with dust jacket
Edition of 2000
Design: Huber/Sterzinger and Miloš Gavrić
Associate Editor: Jeff Gutterman
Lithography: Colour & Books
Work-Scholar: Shea Baasch
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.