In The Fold

Opening night receptions for the 2025 Dummy Awards and What Makes a Photobook Sustainable?, on view in our galleries, with music by DJ Gaiaoffline on our rooftop deck.

6–9PM

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• Luis Weinstein
  Chilean photographer, self-publishing artist, and 2025 Dummy Award Juror Luis Weinstein discusses the circulation and distribution of photobooks.

  1:30AM–12:15PM

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• Akiko Wakabayashi
  Akiko Wakabayashi is a Netherlands based graphic designer mainly working on commissioned and self initiated printed matter and book design, including photobooks published by IBASHO Gallery, torch press, Chose Commune, among others.

  1–1:45PM

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• Lukas Birk
  Photo artist, researcher and publisher Lukas Birk conducts image research very often in areas that have been affected by conflict and have not yet had the chance to present existing material in an artistic form such as Afghanistan or Myanmar. His talk will focus on the creation of living archives of photographic histories, and publishing photobooks that circulate these practices back into communities.

  2:30–3:15PM

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• What Makes a Photobook Sustainable?
  Tamsin Green and Dolly Meieran launch the US edition of the Sustainable Photobook Publishing (SPP) network’s first publication, a prompt for conversations about how we make and circulate photobooks; and that asking questions plays a fundamental part in making better, more strategic choices for both people and the planet.

  10:30–11:15AM

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• 10 Photography Lessons for a Dead President
  Marina Berio discusses the development of her latest self-printed publication about the incarceration of her family along with over 120,000 other Americans of Japanese descent – most of them citizens – during World War 2.

  11:45AM–12:15PM

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• New Poetics of Labor
  From Research to Publishing — The Operational System of an Independent Publisher.

  1–1:45PM

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

  2:30–3:15PM

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• Risograph Photobook Demonstration with Lindsay Buchman
  Lindsay Buchman (Seaton Street Press) will lead 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.

  10:30–11:15AM

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• Penumbra Risograph Residency
  Claire Warden (‘25), Daniela Spector (‘24), and Sandra Erbacher (‘25) will present and discuss their Risograph photobooks, produced during at Penumbra.

  12–1PM

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• Long Couch in the Living Room
  Lina Arditty (Long Term Book Program ‘24) with Jenia Fridlyand present Arditty’s Risograph photobook, published by Penumbra on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the LTP.

  1:30–2PM

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• Travis Shaffer (theretherenow)
  Travis Shaffer is a member of ABC [Artists’ Books Cooperative], an international group of book artists, and runs a Risograph publishing imprint called theretherenow. He will share his latest project, Color Shift.

  2:30–3:15PM

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• Book making as a caring practice: Risk and reflection
  Ruth Lauer-Manenti and Mateo Ruiz González discuss book making as a self caring practice that creates space for self-expression and reflection.

  4–4:45PM

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