Editors and writers Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich are the co-founders of 10×10 Photobooks, a nonprofit, community-oriented organization that champions and facilitates thoughtful and passionate engagement with the photobook through a focus on contemporary practice, overlooked publications, stories and creators in photobook histories. Founded in 2012, 10×10 Photobooks engages a diverse global audience through its ongoing multi-platform series of photobook activities, including publications, reading rooms, salons, online communities, partnerships with renowned arts institutions and annual grant-giving for scholarly research on under-explored topics in photobook history.
The organization develops deeply researched thematic photobook projects on marginalized areas of photobook history or current practices. Each comprises an anthology that presents over 200 photo-related books, zines, and photographic materials in print with contributions from scholars and researchers, as well as an associated ‘hands-on’ touring reading room. Past projects include 10×10 American Photobooks (2013), 10×10 Japanese Photobooks (2014), CLAP! 10×10 Contemporary Latin American Photobooks: 2000-2016 (2017), How We See: Photobooks by Women (2018-2019), What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999 (2021) and Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present (2024).
10×10 Reading Rooms have traveled internationally to The Getty Museum (Los Angeles), The New York Public Library, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), MEP: Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Boston Athenaeum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), Fototeca Latinoamericana (Buenos Aires) and Aperture Foundation (New York) - reaching over 10,000 visitors per reading room tour.
Lederman and Yatskevich lecture and write extensively on photobooks, having given presentations at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paris Photo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Rijksmuseum and The New York Public Library.
