Saturday, September 13, 2025
Screens, Multiples & Books: Notes on Risography – Risograph Demonstration
Lindsay Buchman
Saturday, September 13th, 10:30–11:15AM
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
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
Lina İrem Arditty, a 2024 alumna of the Long Term Program: The Photobook, presents her risograph photobook, Long Couch in the Living Room, published by Penumbra on the occasion of the LTP’s fifth anniversary. Arditty’s photographic project, a gritty and unflinching anatomization of existence with a painful, chronic illness, was developed into a photobook during her year as an LTP student. She is joined by the program’s former chair, Jenia Fridlyand, who will discuss the LTP’s mission and history. Limited quantities of Long Couch in the Living Room will be available for purchase.
Instagram: Lina İrem Arditty
photobooksatpenumbrafoundation.org
Color Shift
Travis Shaffer
Saturday, September 13th, 2:30–3:15PM
Travis Shaffer is a member of ABC [Artists’ Books Cooperative], an international group of book artists, and runs a risograph publishing imprint called theretherenow, producing quarterly issues of photographer’s work reproduced in custom color profiles.
Shaffer will discuss his latest project ColorShift, a comprehensive research project to develop a catalog of experimental color models for risograph printing that will specifically recall both the conventionally incomplete and beautifully distinctive color rendering of historical photographic processes and methods as well as working against the default color models of the digital workflow.
Shaffer’s artist’s books are housed in public and private collections including MoMA’s and SFMoMA’s Artist’s Books Collections (New York + San Francisco); the Tate Library and Archives (London); Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book + Manuscript Library (New Haven); FRAC Pouitou-Charentes (Angoulême) and have been exhibited in galleries and museums including C/O Berlin and the Museum Brandhorst (Germany); Gagosian Galleries (New York, Paris, and Beverly Hills), Arts Santa Monica (Barcelona), FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen. Shaffer’s works have also been included in major photography and book art festivals and fairs including Les Rencontres d'Arles (Arles, FRA), Brighton Photo Biennial (Brighton, UK), Printed Matter’s NY and LA Art Book Fairs; Offprint Paris, Offprint London.
travisshaffer.com
Book making as a caring practice: Risk and reflection
Ruth Lauer-Manenti & Mateo Ruiz González
Saturday, September 13th, 4:00–4:45PM
Ruth Lauer-Manenti and Mateo Ruiz González explore bookmaking as a form of self-care that encourages self-expression and reflection. Both artists work with large-format photography, a process that requires time, patience, and trust in the revelations that can only come through a slow unfolding. Their conversation will not follow a fixed structure, but instead serve as a dynamic exchange of ideas, highlighting how they each approach bookmaking and the ways in which it shapes their creative processes. During the discussion, they will share their dummies and books, using them as examples to reflect on how their work evolves over time. They will explore the concept of "divine timing" in their practice—how ideas shift and transform when brought into the form of a book.
Ruth Lauer Manenti received an MFA from The Yale School of Art in painting and drawing in 1994. In 2012, she was given a large format camera and taught herself how to use it. Gradually she accomplished what she was striving for in drawing and painting through photography. Her mother was also an artist who left behind a legacy of unknown work. Part of Ruth’s determination as an artist is to reward her mother for her efforts and to create a continuum. Ruth is currently working towards an MFA in photography at Hartford University where she received a merit scholarship towards her studies. Her father found beauty in a hole in his shirt; in the way that it spoke of impermanence and fragility. Her mother was grateful that there was a tree she could admire from the kitchen window while washing dishes. Her parents endured a lot of suffering yet lived with poetic sensibilities that Ruth has inherited from them. Since breaking her neck in a car crash at the age of twenty, Ruth has developed a spiritual life and practice that has propelled much of her photographic work. She lives in the Catskill Mountains in NY with her husband, a nurse and tai chi practitioner and their 2 cats.
ruthlauermanenti.com
Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez is an emerging photographer born in Bogota, Colombia, educated in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and living in Brooklyn, New York, who aptly navigates the disciplines of storytelling, editorial photography, and fine-art photography. His work reflects the realist way he observes his environment, blending quietly with his surroundings and taking advantage of natural light to capture real colors. He enforces design rules and structure in his framing, while keeping a candid and organic feel—seeking a constant harmony in his work. Using poetic mediums, Ruiz Gonzalez explores the beauty of unassuming moments, often capturing harsh scenes with a delicate eye, and bringing new value to often-overlooked settings. He is the co-founder of Antics Publications—an independent photography publisher based in Brooklyn and Bogotá, Colombia.
mathewfg.com
For more information, email: lisa@penumbrafoundation.org