Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print. 1950–Present

Published January 27, 2026

Since its inception, photography has captured defining historical moments, serving as either a tool or a document of protest. Flashpoint! explores the diverse roles and varying aesthetics that photography in print undertakes in its support of protest and resistance.

Ruder Plakat and a custom version of Luca Pellegrini’s Electa were used throughout the book. Ruder Plakat, based on Emil Ruder’s poster type which was developed with students at Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel (AGS), served as the perfect display font for a project about civil resistance. Electa, in turn, was used for all body text as well as meta data, captions and references. Being the result of Luca’s obsessive study of an Olivetti typewriter, its historic charm with strict sophistication performed in pretty much every setting we put it in.

The book was edited by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich and published by 10×10 Photobooks:

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 the 1950s to the present.

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