21 April 2025: 10×10 Photobooks collaborated with STORM Bookstore to host a salon featuring Marwan Bassiouni
Marwan Bassiouni is a Swiss, Egyptian, and American photographer whose work explores cultural identity, migration and representation through landscape photography. His carefully composed images merge Western landscapes with architectural elements of mosques, inviting reflection on spirituality, multiculturalism and belonging.
His photobooks New Dutch Views (2019) and New Swiss Views (2024) offer meditative explorations of landscape and identity. New Dutch Views was a finalist for the Aperture First Book Award at Paris Photo. His photography has been featured in Artforum, The New Yorker, The British Journal of Photography, Aperture and FOAM.
Bassiouni has received numerous awards, including the W. Eugene Smith Student Grant, the Harry Pennings Prize and the Prix Circulation(s)-Fujifilm. His work continues to be supported by the Mondriaan Fund.
STORM is an independent bookstore serving as a cultural and community-focused volume. Carrying art and design publications, children’s books and poetry and focusing on ecology of practices and the culture of the SWANA (South West Asia North Africa) region. Promoting cultural engagement through programs and artist-led workshops, Storm is dedicated to the circulation of ideas, conversations and collaborations.
A big thank you to Nour Sabbagh at STORM Bookstore for hosting and facilitating this salon.