30 April 2024: In collaboration with the Magnum Foundation in New York City, 10×10 hosted a salon with Stacy Kranitz and Carly Ries. Working within the documentary tradition, Stacy Kranitz makes photographs that acknowledge the limits of photographic representation. Her images do not tell the “truth” but are honest about their inherent shortcomings, and thus reclaim these failures (exoticism, ambiguity, fetishization) as sympathetic equivalents in order to more forcefully convey the complexity and instability of the lives, places and moments they depict. For the past fourteen years ..read more

23 April 2024: In collaboration with the Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at the New York Public Library, 10×10 hosted “From Magazine to Japanese Photobook,” a conversation between Ivan Vartanian and Maggie Mustard on the role that magazines have played in the evolution of Japanese photobooks. Held in the Berger Forum at the New York Public Library, their talk centered on examples from Vartanian’s recent publication, Japanese Photography Magazines: 1880s – 1980s, which offers an accessible journey into Japan’s rich photography history, showcasing over 1 ..read more

25 March 2024: 10×10 hosted a salon with Ying Ang and Anna and Maria Ritsch (aka the Ritsch Sisters) at Penumbra Foundation. Ying presented two books: Gold Coast (2014), which is about our perceptions of safety and danger within the architecture of our built environment, and The Quickening (2021), a study of the sudden transformations that affect a woman’s life when becoming a mother.  Ying Ang, Gold Coast (Self-published, 2014). Anna and Maria discussed their most recent photobook Together Apart (2023), which delves into profound questions of identity, societal change, and the human expe ..read more

9 October 2023: Russet Lederman and Jeff Gutterman hosted a 10×10 Photobooks salon with Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari. Mike discussed Zone Eleven (Damiani Editore, 2021) and his collaborative book (with Larry Sultan) Evidence (Clatworthy Colorvues, 1977). Chantal presented her most recent publication Pictures from the Outside (Eighteen Publications, 2023).  Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel, Evidence (Clatworthy Colorvues, 1977); Mike Mandel, Zone Eleven (Damiani Editore, 2021); Chantal Zakari, Pictures from the Outside (Eighteen P ..read more

The 2022 grants focus on research and scholarship that seeks to fill gaps and provide missing information in the history of women and photobooks with a focus on Asia, Africa and Oceania. Working with Dayanita Singh, we have added a grant for researchers living in South Asia. We continue to be extremely impressed with the range and strength of submissions which further evidences the need and opportunity for more research into the history of the photobook and the many stories and topics yet to be well known.  The three recipients of the 2022 Research Grants on Photobook History were: S ..read more

20 June 2023: Lanie and Paul McNulty hosted a 10×10 Photobooks salon with Tommy Kha and Kris Graves. Tommy presented his recent photobook Half, Full, Quarter (Aperture, 2023) and Kris discussed his book, Privileged Mediocrity (KGP | Monolith, 2023) and his co-published zine-catalogues for the New York Now: Home exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.   Left: Kris Graves, Privileged Mediocrity (KPG | Monolith, 2023). Right: Tommy Kha, Half, Full, Quarter (Aperture, 2023). Tommy Kha received his MFA in Photography from Yale Un ..read more

25 April 2023: Alice Sachs Zimet hosted a 10×10 Photobooks salon with Allen Frame. Allen presented his recent photobook Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2022) and Alice discussed her photography collection and decades-long support of artists.  From Allen Frame, Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2022): Ennio (left) and Two Sisters (right). Allen Frame is a photographer and writer, based in New York and represented by Gitterman Gallery, which, in 2022, presented Whereupon, an exhibition of his black-and-white work from 1977-92.  Whereupon ..read more

7 October 2022: 10×10 hosted a salon with artists Sim Chi Yin and Odette England at the loft of Steven Sicular in Manhattan. Sim discussed She Never Rode That Trishaw Again (self-published, 2021) with designer Teun van der Heijden and England presented Dairy Character (Saint Lucy Books, 2021). Sim Chi Yin, She Never Rode That Trishaw Again (2021) Photo: Johannes Kremer She Never Rode That Trishaw Again (self-published, 2021) tells the story of Loo Ngan Yue, a woman widowed by the British war against anti-colonial forces in Malaya — a 12-year conflict that became a template for o ..read more

14 September 2022: 10×10 hosted a salon with photographers D’Angelo Lovell Williams and Rachel Papo at DieFirma in Manhattan. D’Angelo Lovell Williams, Contact High (MACK, 2022) / Rachel Papo, It’s Been Pouring (Kehrer, 2022). D’Angelo Lovell Williams’s Contact High (MACK, 2022) offers an expansive engagement with the visualization of desire and depiction of the Black body. Williams’s narrative images reflect the many forms in which Black queer people exist and have existed historically within each other’s lives. The title references the importance of touch a ..read more

21 June 2022: 10×10 hosted a salon with photographers Sabiha Çimen, Bieke Depoorter at  Magnum Foundation in Manhattan. Sabiha Çimen, Hafiz (Red Hook Editions, 2021) and Bieke Depoorter, Agata (self-published, 2021). Sabiha Çimen‘s first book Hafiz (Red Hook Editions, 2021) is the culmination of three years of photographing girl’s Quran schools in five cities in Turkey. This is a subject that she knows very well since she herself attended one of those schools as a teenager, with her twin sister. The title refers to one who has memorized all 604 pages of the H ..read more