Thursdays

October 9, 23, 30 & November 6

6 PM - 9 PM

Class Size Max: 4

Prerequisite: Introduction to Risography for Photo Printing

This 4-week course builds on Introduction to Risography for Photo Printing, expanding on photographic printing approaches for multi-color printing while establishing a workflow for prepress approaches in book layout. Print methods will include one-color, duotone, and tritone processes to be applied to a book sequence, producing a photobook. The course will begin with an introduction to Risograph book examples, followed by a demonstration in Adobe InDesign and Photoshop. Students will arrange their layouts for book dummies, exploring text-image relationships and considering how material and binding choices shape the book as an object. Students will receive guidance on the Risograph duplicator, book assembly, and personalized feedback on their photobooks throughout the course. Photobooks should include 4-6 digital photographs sequenced across a 12-page booklet for an edition of 5-10 copies.

Students may rent the Risograph outside of class at an additional cost.

Tuition includes a $100 materials fee.

If your desired tuition option is unavailable, please email info@penumbrafoundation.org and we will do our best to accommodate you. If the entire class is sold out, we can add you to the waitlist.

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.

Images 1-3 © previous Penumbra students

Image 4-5 © Marcy Cohen & Noy Finer, previous Penumbra students

Image 6 © Marcy Cohen, previous Penumbra student

Image 7 © Diana Guerra, Fleeting Under Light, published by Seaton Street Press

Image 8 © Magali Duzant, La vie is like that, published by Seaton Street Press