29 October 2025: 10×10 Photobooks collaborated with Peter Cohen and Carly Ries of the Peter J. Cohen Collection to host a salon featuring Alanna Fields discussing her recent book Unveiling.
Alanna Fields is a mixed-media artist and archivist whose work both deconstructs and reconstructs Black queer memory and history through a multidisciplinary engagement with photographic archives. Fields received her MFA in Photography from the Pratt Institute and has lectured and exhibited internationally.
Unveiling is a conceptual monograph comprised of past and recent artworks connected to Fields’ projects, As We Were, Audacity, Mirages of Dreams Past, and Constellations: Our Love Was Deeply Purple. These series are center on Fields’s ongoing research on Black Queer Archives and the power of representation and speculation through vernacular imagery. As both a book and an object, Unveiling symbolizes the complexities and limitations of visibility and invisibility, while breaking open veils that reveal audacious queering. Meditating on Black Queer memory, vulnerability, and desire, this monograph brings to focus everyday representations of Black Queer life in the U.S. between the 1920s and 1990s. Unveiling is shortlisted for this year’s Paris Photo-Aperture First Photobook Award.
Peter J. Cohen is a New York-based collector of snapshots and vernacular photographs. Spanning the late 19th century to the 1980s, the Peter J. Cohen Collection (PJCC) is one of the largest privately held collections of “anonymous” photographs in the U.S. Material from the PJCC has been donated to and featured in exhibitions at over 60 major art institutions worldwide.
A big thank you to Peter Cohen and Carly Ries for hosting and facilitating this salon.