Fotografiska x AIPAD: Collecting for Everyone
From Photobooks to Rare Vintage Prints
About the Talks
Join us for a conversation with Associate Editor at Aperture Noa Lin, Manager of Dashwood Books Miwa Susuda, and entrepreneur and collector Mark Ghuneim, moderated by Fotografiska New York's Associate Director of Exhibitions, Meredith Breech.
Fotografiska + AIPAD Talks (The Association of International Photography Art Dealers) present a series of conversations between photographers, curators, collectors and connoisseurs.
Titled Collecting for Everyone: From Photobooks to Rare Vintage Prints, these dynamic dialogues will explore areas and eras of photography and discuss the boundary pushing medium in all its forms.
About the Speakers
Mark Ghuneim is a photography collector, curator and publisher whose Hudson Street Library represents a highly curated survey of photographic publishing spanning artist books, zines and monographs. A publisher of Surveillance Index Edition One, he created a systematic study of 100 books examining the measured gaze and mechanics of supervision, drawn from his collection. His curatorial work includes co-curating "Public, Private, Secret" at the International Center of Photography (ICP), where he also created seven real-time video feeds that explored themes of privacy and observation in contemporary visual culture.
Miwa Susuda has been a central figure in the photobook industry for over 20 years, working as a photobook consultant at Dashwood Books in NYC, as an instructor at The Penumbra Foundation and as the founder and director of Session Press. She has participated in galleries, art fairs, and museums worldwide, including Vertical Assembly with Lesley A. Martin, CONTACT Photo, the Tokyo Art Book Fair, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. Session Press has received numerous prestigious prizes and nominations, including Liberation’s “Best Book of the Year” for Red Flower by Mao Ishikawa (2017). Additionally, the publications Taratine by Daisuke Yokota and Bible and Dildo by Momo Okabe won the Paul Huf Award at Foam Museum in the Netherlands.
Noa Lin is assistant editor at Aperture, where he works in the book program. He has worked on numerous photobooks, most recently, I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, Paul Sepuya: Dark Room A–Z, and Arielle Bobb-Willis: Keep the Kid Alive. He is a regular contributor to The PhotoBook Review in Aperture magazine. Before joining Aperture in 2022, he was an editorial assistant at Melcher Media. Noa holds a BA in studio art and English from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
About AIPAD
Organized in 1979, AIPAD, with its global membership across six continents, is the collective expert voice for fine art photography dealers. Through its acclaimed education initiative, AIPAD Talks, and its flagship event, The Photography Show, the organization enhances the confidence of the public, museums, institutions and others in responsible fine art photography collecting.
Presented by AIPAD, The Photography Show is the longest-running exhibition dedicated to the photographic medium in the world. The 2024 edition marked the exciting return of the fair to the iconic Park Avenue Armory on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Building on this energizing return, the 2025 edition will be held April 23 - 27.