Join us for Magnum Foundation and 10x10's photobook salon with Isadora Romero and Sofía Granados Dyer, on the occasion of their new publications.
Wednesday, February 18, 2025 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET
59 East 4th St, 7W | New York, NY 10003
Isadora Romero is an Ecuadorian independent visual storyteller based in Quito. Her work moves between documentary and artistic photography, focusing on social justice, gender, environment, and agrobiodiversity in Latin America. She is co-founder of Ruda, a collective of Latin American women photographers. Her work has been exhibited across Latin America, Europe, and Africa. She has been awarded by C/O Berlin, Les Rencontres d’Arles, World Press Photo, and POY Latam, and has received fellowships from Magnum Foundation, Prince Claus Fund, National Geographic, and World Press Photo. She is the author of the photobook Un Movimiento para poder verte (Moving, to See You, 2025).
Isadora Romero, Un Movimiento para poder verte (Moving, to See You, Severo Editorial, 2025)
A living, though inexact, memory guides the steps of Isadora Romero P. in her search to uncover the family heritage that flows through her veins—one that also allows her to enter into a discussion as ancient as it is current: the loss of the cultural, ecological, and symbolic diversity of seeds as a consequence of capitalist modernity. Led by a luminous image—that of her great-great-grandmother Fulgencia Pisco—the photographer embarks on an inquiry into seeds as sources of life, resistance, and affective repair. Winner of the 2024 Nuevo Mariano Aguilera Award in the Publication category, Un Movimiento para poder verte (Moving, to See You. Severo Editorial, 2025) gathers a body of work that took more than six years to complete and spanned four countries (Paraguay, Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico), where Isadora investigates the social and personal conflicts arising from the processes of loss and recovery of ancestral knowledge, as well as the tensions between intimate memory and global conservation policies.
Sofía Granados Dyer co-edits EBB, a bilingual Russian-English publication responding to fascism around the world. Drawing from the rich samizdat tradition, each book is made entirely by hand and distributed through grassroots networks. EBB is also a charity project with every cent going directly to victims of war, incarceration, and political violence. Apart from EBB, Granados Dyer directs public programming at picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom in NYC. In this role, she has interviewed photographers including Rahim Fortune, Matt Black, Yelena Yemchuk, and Daniel Arnold.
Sofía Granados Dyer, EBB Issue 2: What Have We Done (2023)
Granados Dyer is excited to discuss EBB Issue 2 and Issue 3, both of which offer insight into censorship, moral clarity, and the limits of representation. EBB Issue 2: What Have We Done (2023) was created in direct response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The publication explores fascism, imperialism, and moral responsibility across media. EBB Issue 3: Strength of Materials (2025) takes its title from a branch of engineering developed by Ukrainian engineer Stepan Tymoshenko, which analyzes how much stress physical materials can sustain before collapsing. Released in the fall of 2025, the publication reflects on the perseverance of activism and artistic expression in the face of indefinitely prolonged political crises.
Granados Dyer will additionally share maquettes and photographs from work in progress. Among them is a photo project that deals with the violent history of crash test dummies, as well as an artist’s book exploring material and psychological deformity in connection to Christian liturgy.