Penumbra Foundation
Susan McLaughlin Risograph Photobook Award
About the Award
The award recipient will be announced Saturday, Sep 26 at 3:45PM as part of In the Fold, Penumbra’s four-day photobook forum.
The inaugural Susan McLaughlin Risograph Photobook Award supports the work of artists, printers, and publishers in working with the risograph process.
The submitted photobooks will become part of Penumbra’s unique Risograph Photobook Collection.
One publication will be selected to receive a $5,000 award. The recipient of the award and shortlisted photobooks will be presented during In The Fold, Penumbra’s annual photobook forum and be featured online.
All submission meeting the eligibilty criteria will become part of Penumbra’s Risograph Photobook Collection. Located in the Penumbra Project Space, the collection is publicly available and serves as resource for artists, researchers, and students.
Shortlisted Publications
Juried by Miwa Susuda
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Miwa Susuda has been at the center of the photobook industry for over 16 years, as both a photobook consultant at Dashwood Books in NYC, and as the founder and director of Session Press. She has appeared at 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, MA, and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. Ms. Susuda’s Session Press imprint has received numerous prestigious prizes and nominations. Her publication of Red Flower, by Mao Ishikawa, was selected as a 2017 best book of the year by Liberation. In addition, Taratine by Daisuke Yokota and Bible and Dildo by Momo Okabe have all won the Paul Huf Award at Foam Museum in the Netherlands.
miwasusuda
Colour Theory
Max Pinckers, Victoria Gonzalez Figueras,
& Sébastien GirardEl deseo de la mujer es subversivo. Feminismo en las calles de Medellín en los años 80
La Bruja Riso不滅 Endure
Alex LauESKENDERIYAH
Yomna Mohamed & Afrida AhmedHow to Fold a Paper Airplane
Tung Lin TsaiRejected Items (Unofficial and incomplete guide to humanitarian aid items withheld by Israeli authorities from Gaza Strip residents)
Walter Costa and Talita VirginiaSospese
Giuseppe Boscarino, Francesco Boscarino, and Giuseppina Maranzani
Featured Publications
Selected by the Penumbra Foundation staff
Dreams To Remember – Memories From A Teenage Room (1970–1979)
Matt PlezierHow to Measure Time
Suwon LeeMonumental Value
Rubén MontesinosOssada
Gui MarcondesSeparation
Ilya NikitinViewfinders
Erik Kessels, Luca Panaro
