Flashpoint! Reading Room at Printed Matter

[12 March – 31 May 2026: Opening reception 12 March from 6 -8 pm.] Printed Matter presents Flashpoint!, a traveling reading room exhibition organized by 10×10 Photobooks dedicated to protest photography in print. The presentation brings together a selection of photobooks, zines, posters, pamphlets, independent journals, and alternative newspapers from the 1950s to the present. Across these formats, photography emerges as both a tool of protest and a cultural artifact of resistance, capturing political struggles as they unfold and as they are later remembered.

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Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present
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2024 Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist. Flashpoint!, an anthology focusing on protest photography in print, presents a global selection of photobooks, zines, posters, pamphlets, independent journals and alternative newspapers that address protest and resistance from 1950 to the present.

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Salon #81 — The Photobook and Resistance

10 August 2025: In association with the Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print Reading Room and the CPW Photobook + Zine Fair, 10×10 Photobooks collaborated with CPW to host a round table salon featuring D’Angelo Lovell Williams, Mariette Pathy Allen, Ashima Yadava and Keavy Handley-Byrne in conversation on the photobook and resistance.

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