Saturday, September 13, 2025

Screens, Multiples & Books: Notes on Risography – Risograph Demonstration

Lindsay Buchman

Saturday, September 13th, 10:30–11:15AM

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Join Lindsay Buchman of Seaton Street Press for a presentation on Risography featuring her publications and approach to translating photographic images through Risograph printing, including a hands-on demonstration. Buchman will discuss aspects of image-making from film grain to paper stock, ink choices, and learning to decode postproduction for print. With a background as a screen printer and a practice as a lens-based artist, she will share insights on book production for Riso, coinciding with a demonstration of printing approaches for tonal range. Attendees will see visual examples in slide presentation format along with physical books, book dummies, and prints from Penumbra’s ME9450 Risograph duplicator.

Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and publisher based in Brooklyn, NY, whose work explores image-making and writing through print and lens-based media, artist books, and installation. Recent exhibitions include the Penumbra Foundation (NY), the Center for Photography at Woodstock (NY), and the San Francisco Center for the Book (CA). Her work is included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and SFMOMA. She is a recipient of the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship and the Flaherty Fellowship, and her work has appeared in Hyperallergic, Lenscratch, and The Hopper Prize Journal. Buchman has been an artist-in-residence at Light Work, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Lower East Side Printshop, and Kala Art Institute. She holds an academic appointment as Artist-in-Residence at Skidmore College. As an extension of her practice, she publishes under the imprint Seaton Street Press. Buchman holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from California State University, Long Beach.
lindsaybuchman.com

Penumbra Risograph Residency Book Launch

Sandra Erbacher, Claire Warden, Daniela Spector

Saturday, September 13th, 12–1PM

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Celebrate the launch of artist publications by Penumbra Foundation Risograph Residents, with special presentations by each resident. Limited quantities of their editions will be available for purchase.

Crowd Psychology, Sandra Erbacher
”Crowd Psychology is an artist book that examines the volatile and mesmerizing nature of collective behavior. Engaging with Gustave Le Bon’s 1895 text The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, this project interrogates the mechanisms that shape mass psychology—impulsiveness, contagion, suggestion, and the dissolution of individual identity within the collective. Through a carefully curated juxtaposition of images, Crowd Psychology weaves together visual fragments from biology, science, history, warfare, art and design, the animal kingdom, medicine, ethnography, anthropology, and finance.“
sandraerbacher.com

Mimesis, Claire Warden
“The creation of my work comes at a time when the struggle to accept the unfamiliar is pervasive in our culture. When looking at much of my work, the urge to ask “what is it?” echoes the question, “what are you?” – a question directed to me countless times as a person of color with a diverse ethnocultural heritage and one I increasingly tend to resist. That resistance carries through the work as resistance to definition as well as the hegemonic gaze and, instead, emphasizes opacity and illegibility.”
claireawarden.com

Security Matter (C) - A Portrait of Surveillance, Daniela Spector
”Security Matter (C) - A Portrait of Surveillance draws directly from the nearly 400 pages of Spector’s grandmother’s FBI file. The book aims to illuminate and critique the government’s surveillance of people, its own citizens, advocating for equality and peace by appropriating pages directly from the file and recontextualizing them through the lens of family history. Designed to evoke a government file, each spread is split in half–the left-hand pages feature the FBI’s portrait of Spector’s grandmother, and the right-hand pages feature images of her grandmother from their family archive.
danielaspector.com

Book Presentation: Long Couch in the Living Room 

Lina İrem Arditty with Jenia Fridlyand

Friday, September 12th, 1–1:45PM

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Long Term Program: The Photobook alumna Lina İrem Arditty presents her photobook Long Couch in the Living Room, published by Penumbra Foundation on the occasion of the program’s fifth anniversary. She is joined by the program’s former chair, Jenia Fridlyand, who will discuss the LTP’s mission and history.

The objective is to have a physical maquette or artist book ready to present to publishers or to self-publish upon completion of the course, as well as to establish a practice and community to support them going forward.

The program combines online seminars, critiques with guest artists, and one-on-one sessions, as well as optional in-person and online workshops. Working with several instructors throughout the program, while also receiving assignments and feedback from guest critics, participants will have both continuity and variety of support.

New Poetics Publishing is an independent publishing house based between Bogotá, New York, and Austin, founded and run by artists Nechama Winston and Cristina Velásquez. NPP is part of New Poetics of Labor, a research platform founded in 2017. NPP was a finalist for the 2024 Lucie Foundation’s Photobook Prize. The books are in the collections at CCS Bard Library, MoMA Library (forthcoming), The Center for Book Arts, Pratt Institute, and the Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, and are available at Printed Matter and Miriam Gallery, NYC; Ulises Books, PA; One Third Space, LA; Nada and Garabato in Bogotá, and La Bruja Riso, Medellín. The books were also previously on view with Printed Matter, St. Marks in their window display, Sep-Oct 2024.
photobooksatpenumbrafoundation.org

Group Publication:
New Directions of Contemporary Photographic Practice — Curation and Approach
Pellicola

Friday, September 12th, 2:30–3:15PM

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For the launch of Pellicola’s first print issue, the magazine explores Time in response to the need to take a step back from the speed of the digital environment in which the project was born and developed. Through the slowness and materiality of paper, it aims to enhance those images that are often devalued or overlooked by visual overproduction. The theme unfolds across 188 pages of content ranging from photo series, articles and interviews. Structured as a journey, also a sensory one, the editorial project offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary photography. Different perspectives flow throughout the magazine: beginning with the editorial team’s point of view in the Projects section, moving to the photographers’ own voices in In Dialogue, and culminating in the insights of field experts in the closing Perspectives section.

Since its founding in 2015, Pellicola has been a self-funded initiative, carried forward entirely on a voluntary basis by the core team, driven by passion and supported by a group of close collaborators contributing to content creation. In May 2023, a nonprofit organization was established to formalize the collective mission of the project, registering with RUNTS (Registro Unico Nazionale del Terzo Settore) as an ETS. Pellicola has collaborated with various organizations, such as M9 - Museo del '900 (press office, 2018), Wetransfer (promotion of the Union of Concerned Photographers project, 2018), Casa dei Tre Oci (press office, 2019), Paris Photo (promotion of annual editions, 2021-ongoing), Mucho Mas! (Open call for visual artists with final collaborative exhibition, 2023-24), Twenty-14 (presentation of the print issue with collaborative exhibition, 2024).
pellicolamag.com

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For more information, email: lisa@penumbrafoundation.org