10×10 Photobooks is very excited and pleased to announce the winners of the latest cycle of Research Grants on Photobook History. This fifth edition continues the program’s focus on research and scholarship that seeks to fill gaps and provide missing information in the history of the photobook. For this cycle, 10×10 awarded grants related to 10×10 Photobooks’ forthcoming publication on the history of photobooks from Africa and its diaspora. The three winning proposals focus on photobook research on Black identity, Africa and the African diaspora.

The three recipients of this year’s research grants are: Afi Venessa Appiah – Informal Photobook Practices in the Archive of ‘La Boule Noire’; Matseliso Motsoane – “Hae ke Hole”: The Transnational Visualities of Southern African Photographic Subjects; and Valéria Reis – Photobooks as Acts of Permanence: Mapping the History of Black Self-Documentation in Brazil.

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