Salon #48 – Sarah Stacke & Poulomi Basu

5 December 2019: 10×10 hosted a salon with Sarah Stacke and Poulomi Basu at the Magnum Foundation in Manhattan.

Sarah Stacke
Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum. By Sarah Stacke with texts by Maurice Wallace and Martha Sumler. Published by Red Hook Editions (October 2018). Designed by Bonnie Briant.

Sarah Stacke is a photographer and writer based in New York. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times and Photo District News – and has also worked with National GeographicThe New Yorker, the Washington Post, among others. Sarah is the author of Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum, a photobook looking at the life and work of turn-of-the-20th-century photographer Hugh Mangum, recently published by Red Hook Editions. 

Centralia by Poulomi Basu
Centralia by Poulomi Basu with text by Ivan Sigal and design by Teun van der Heijden

Poulomi Basu is an Indian transmedia artist, photographer, and activist. Her work explores how the formation of identity becomes entwined with geopolitics. A Magnum Foundation Social Justice Fellow and grantee, in 2019 Amnesty International cited Poulomi as an “important and brilliant human rights activist”. In 2018, her book Centralia was awarded the PHmuseum’s Humanity Grant Main Prize. Poulomi’s Salon presentation will be a conversation between her and Centralia’s essayist, Ivan Sigal. Ivan is a photographer, artist, writer, and a leader in the development of alternative media organizations.

Sarah Stacke presents. © Grayson Dantzic Photography
Poulomi Basu. © Grayson Dantzic Photography
Sarah Stacke. © Grayson Dantzic Photography
Poulomi Basu signs books. © Grayson Dantzic Photography

Thank you to Simone Salvo and Kristen Lubben at the Magnum Foundation.