9 September 2024: 10×10 hosted a salon at Penumbra Foundation featuring Jason Koxvold of Gnomic Book and Svetlana Bachevanova of FotoEvidence Press.
Jason Koxvold is an artist and publisher whose practice focuses on the shared spaces between soft and hard power. His first monograph, Knives, was published in 2017, followed by You Were Right All Along (2018), Calle Tredici Martiri (2019) and Engage and Destroy (2023). His work has been exhibited in the United States, Britain, Germany, France, and Japan. Koxvold is also the founder of Gnomic Book, an independent fine art imprint founded in 2016.
Koxvold presented three recent publications from Gnomic Book. Jason Hendardy’s This is a Test (2024) is a premonition and reflection on technology, America, and the subjectivity of an artist wading through three decades of culture and personal creation. American Glitch (2024) by Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein documents the years the artists spent treating the internet as their collective subconscious as part of their lengthy research process. Koxvold’s Engage and Destroy (2023) meditates on culturally manufactured notions of hegemonic hypermasculinity in a time of global conflict—and how these notions meet with reality.
Svetlana Bachevanova is the executive director of the FotoEvidence Association in France and a co-founder of the acclaimed publishing house FotoEvidence Press (New York, 2010). The books she and her team publish expose injustice, create enduring evidence of violations of human rights and inspire social change.
Bachevanova shared Ukraine: A War Crime (2023) and Ukraine: Love+War (2014-2024) (2024) two unique, collaborative books that bring together more than 150 photojournalists from 29 countries to tell the story of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of those tasked with documenting it.
Watch a video recording of salon #73 on 10×10 Photobooks’ YouTube channel.
A big thank you to Leandro Villaro and his team at Penumbra for facilitating this salon. Thank you to Jeff Gutterman for video recording.
Salon photos by Jeff Gutterman.