25 March 2025: 10×10 Photobooks collaborated with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs to host a salon featuring Carmen Winant and Mariette Pathy Allen, moderated by Elizabeth Cronin, Robert B. Menschel Curator of Photography at The New York Public Library.
Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University. Her work utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and sometimes transnational coalition building. Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a 2020 FCA Artist Honoree and a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient. She is also a community organizer, prison educator, and mother to her two children, Carlo and Rafa, shared with her partner, Luke Stettner. Her recent publications include My Birth (2018) and The Last Safe Abortion (2024).
Mariette Pathy Allen has been photographing transgender communities for nearly five decades, pioneering visibility through five books: Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them (1989), The Gender Frontier (2003), TransCuba (2014), Transcendents (2017) and I Was The Girl (2024). Her work is in numerous major collections, has been exhibited internationally, and is being archived by Duke University. Beyond gender, Allen has a number of series exploring family, birth, juxtapositions, fantasy, and everyday life. Allen lives in NYC and is represented by CLAMP.
Video recording of salon #78 on 10×10 Photobooks’ YouTube channel.
A big thank you to Clare Bell, Elizabeth Cronin, Deirdre Donohue, Maggie Mustard, Chantal Lee and Zulay Chang at the New York Public Library for hosting and facilitating this salon. Thank you to Sadie Bridger for photos and Jeff Gutterman for video recording.