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✶ Curious about Penumbra membership? From discounts on workshops & film processing at @LTI_Lightside to exclusive access to facility rentals and eligibility for our online Members Gallery, our members enjoy a variety of special benefits. For a limited time—through the end of April—we’re offering discounted membership rates: Individual $75 → $50 Dual Membership (sign up with a friend!) $100 → $75 Student / Educator $35 → $25 Your support has a direct impact and uplifts our community of emerging artists and photographers. With your tax-deductible gift, we can continue offering an array of resources and activities including year-round education, artists’ lectures, and photography exhibitions. For more information on our membership program and how to join, visit the link in our bio.
2025-04-09
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We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Workspace Program and Risograph Publication Residency recipients! ✶ The selected artists-in-residence of the Workspace A-I-R Program are Dana Bell (@dana_bell) (Brooklyn, NY), Magda Biernat (@magdabiernat_studio) (Brooklyn, NY), and Brian Van Lau (@zerkalou) (Los Angeles, CA). ✶ The selected artists-in-residence of the Risograph Publication Residency are Sandra Erbacher (@sandra.erbacher) (Providence, RI), Raisan Hameed (@raisan_hameed) (Leipzig, Germany), and Claire A. Warden (@claireawarden) (Phoenix, AZ). Congratulations to all of this year’s recipients! We extend our gratitude to this year’s Workspace Jury, Lindsay Caplan (@lacaplan) (Art Historian, Brown University), Liz Nielsen (@liz_nielsen217) (Artist, New York), and Brian Scholis (Writer, Editor, and Co-founder of Valise), and Risograph Residency Jury, Leah Ollman (@leahollman) (Writer), Victor Sira (@victor_sira) (Photographer, Educator, and Co-founder of Bookdummypress), and Magdalena Wysocka (@wysocka.magdalena) (Artist, Co-Founder of Outer Space Press). We would also like to congratulate this year’s Workspace Program finalists, Arturo Soto (@arturosotophoto), Allie Tsubota (@aatsubo), and Zhidong Zhang (@zhangzhidong_), and Risograph Residency finalists, Viviana Peretti (@vivianaperetti), Andrew D. McClees (@andrewdmcclees), and Andrés Felipe Vargas. Learn more about our residency programs and 2025 artists-in-residence through the link in bio. The 2025 Workspace A-I-R Program is supported by Joy of Giving Something and the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation (@leonianfoundation). The 2025 Risograph Publication Residency is sponsored in part by the Jacques & Natasha Gelman Foundation and The Joy of Giving Something.
2025-05-20
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???? May at Penumbra! Swipe to see a couple of the in-person and online courses we have planned for the upcoming month. ✶ Anthotypes & Other Organic Processes I with Anne Eder (@darcflower) | *Two spots left! ✶ Intro to Wet Plate with Sam Dole (@actual_sam_dole) ✶ Lith Printing with Brittonie Fletcher (@etherwaves) | *Two spots left! ✶ Lumen Printing in the Park with @RachelleBussieres ✶ Anarchive: Engaging the @nyplpicturecollection with @Sandra.Erbacher Find class details via the link in bio. Cover Image © Anne Eder. Image 2 © John Joyce, from Anne’s workshop.
2025-05-02
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Sometimes the richest subject matter is right in front of you. Starting Where You Are: The Autobiographical Lens with @FlynnLarsen is a process-based online course, inviting students to draw inspiration from daily life, domestic spaces, and personal experiences to develop a body of work. Through writing prompts, discussion, and supportive critique, participants will explore image-making within their own environments, embracing the spontaneity and intimacy of working at home while clarifying the stories they want to tell. By the end of the course, students will have begun or deepened a body of work rooted in personal experience. Mondays | July 7 - August 11 6-8pm Link in profile to learn more about this course.
2025-05-30
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Explore electronic flash with Andrew French (@andrewfrenchphotographer) during our one-day workshop on June 7th ???? In Flash Essentials, participants will learn how to control the direction and quality of light using a light meter and a variety of flashes and accessories. Using single-light setups with 5 to 7 different modifiers, students will learn how each accessory can be used to achieve a different look. The class will also gain practical experience photographing models while experimenting with various lighting styles to build confidence and elevate their images to a professional standard. Registration closes soon – learn more through the link in bio.
2025-05-29
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????️ a detail is not a fragment by visual artist and experimental filmmaker Paola Fernanda (@paolaeneltiempo) opens next Thursday, June 5th in our Exhibition Space! Please join us from 6-8pm for the opening reception. a detail is not a fragment will be on view in Penumbra’s Exhibition Space from June 5th—August 5th, 2025. Tap the link in bio to learn more. Penumbra’s Exhibition Space is supported in part by the Joy of Giving Something. The Finnish Cultural Foundation (@kulttuurirahasto) and the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York City (@thefciny) support the exhibition. Part of this exhibition’s development process took place at the residency program at LIFT (@_liftfilm), Liaison of Independent Filmmakers in Toronto, between October 2024 and March 2025. Cover Image: Still frames from the short experimental film Untitled, self-portrait (Sin título, autorretrato, 2024/5) © Paola Fernanda
2025-05-29
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Last week, we asked the team at @smalleditionsnyc, a design studio and artist book publisher based in Brooklyn, NY, to pull a couple of books from their collection. From the vibrant offset-riso spreads of Neutral Colors' Issue 4 (@neutral_colors_magazine) to the loose blue foldouts akin to cyanotypes in Some Things Bleak by Charlott Markus (@msmarkus), these works mark a range of methods artists have used for rendering images in paper & ink. Dive deeper into printing for photobooks on June 14th & 15th during our two-day workshop with Small Editions. In the class, students will learn about paper properties, printing methods (#offset, digital, #inkjet, and #risograph), ink behavior, color reproduction, and color gamuts. By examining past Small Editions projects at various stages of production (digital files, scatter proofs, unprinted maquettes, final bound books), students will learn how to select paper and printing techniques based on the specific color demands of their photographs. The conceptual nature of photobooks is also an integral aspect of the class: lessons will weave together the technical side of book making with more abstract discussions of form, content, materiality, aesthetics, and meaning-making — what Small Editions calls the “poetics of book design.” Students will gain a foundation in real-world skills needed to make a book and explore interesting ways to disrupt the relationship between form and content. To learn more about this class, tap the link in bio. Featured books: Image 1: Roller Zoku by @AlvinKeanWong, designed by Small Editions Image 2 & 9: Neutral Colors: Issue 4 (@neutral_colors_magazine) Image 3 & 7: Bron by @eriskayconnection Image 4 & 10: Some Things Bleak by Charlott Markus (@msmarkus) Image 5 & 6: Nasser Road: Political Posters in Uganda by @eriskayconnection Image 8: Somewhere/Elsewhere by Rhea Karam (@rheak), published by Small Editions
2025-05-27
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The final result vs. in the developer—sharing this gorgeous platinum palladium portrait made by Natalie Czyzyk (@natalie_czyzyk) in Tricia Rosenkilde’s (@triciarosenkildephotography) recent intro class ???? ✶ Curious about the platinum printing process? Join us for our upcoming Cyanotype Over Platinum workshop on June 21 & 22 led by Tricia. Open to students of all experience levels, this two-day course covers the art of layering platinum palladium prints with blue cyanotype pigments for additional depth and tone. To learn more about this class, click the link in bio. Image © Natalie Czyzyk. Video by Tricia Rosenkilde.
2025-05-26
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Combining 35mm film, pinhole photographs, and written and archival material, Maite Mérida’s (@vocesendelay) ‘Era invierno cuando removimos la tierra / it was winter when we removed the soil’ reflects on the legacy of extractivism & massified monoculture in Chile through the story of her father, who, while working in the forestry industry, fostered her deep regard for the environment: ”Despite having lived observing the depredation of these territories, he [Mérida’s father] asked that his ashes be scattered in the shade of an alerce tree, in the middle of the native forest. As of this paradox, I wonder about the contours between human beings and nature and the limit between the natural and artificial.” In an editorial gesture, Mérida composes the final book in a shape that resembles a pile of paper—the main product of the industry that the project calls into question. On making the publication, Mérida shares: “Even considering that it was my first time using a riso machine, I was really drawn to it as an artistic resource, so it was a great opportunity to experiment and bring out what I already had in mind. Since my project is based on analog photography, intervention and use of archives, it was interesting to add a third layer of experimentation to it. For me, there’s also value in the fact that riso is much more ecological than other printing techniques used to produce photobooks.” Maite Mérida Baeza studied Journalism in Valparaíso, Chile. Dedicated to analog and experimental photographic processes, video and sound, she explores the use and problematization of visual archives and documents as narrative devices. Through writing and materiality, her work traces affective and political memories, unfolding personal histories into the collective. ???? Click the link in bio to purchase a copy. The 2024 Penumbra Foundation Risograph Publication Residency program was sponsored in part by the Jacques & Natasha Gelman Foundation.
2025-05-24
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