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Join Ruth Lauer Manenti (LTP 2020-21) in Kingston, NY today for the reception for “The Rip in Her Sleeve,” a two-person exhibition with Alicia Shirrmeister at Maiden Lane Gallery!

Friends near Beacon, NY! Stop by the Beacon Art Book fair today and check out the work of Jennifer Lauren Smith (LTP 2025-26). ✨✨ ・・・ I’ll be at the Beacon Art Book fair tomorrow with a freshly editioned and newly improved stack of Weeping Beech Baby I made while in residence @interluderesidency last month, along with other publication projects I’m exploring in the context of @photobookprogram @penumbrafoundation . Many, many thanks to the mightily generous @emmamcdonaldphotography and @beaconphotoclub for organizing this fair! I’ll be sharing table 6 with Greg Slick @gslickart and the VFW Hall (413 Main St) with many wonderful, talented artists. Come visit and bring your $$ to support hand-made books and zines! Thank you @highlandscurrent for covering the fair and featuring my work in this week’s paper. The event runs 11-4 Saturday, May 16. #beaconartbookfair

Andrew Zawacki (LTP 2024) is teaching Poetry + Photography, a 4-week online course that guides participants through the process of writing poems and making pictures in tandem. Not to be missed! ・・・ Are you a photographer looking to expand your work by pairing your images with poetry? Are you a poet seeking to fold photography into your literary practice? ⁠ ⁠ Designed to elaborate (and disrupt) students’ primary artistic mode by adding in a complementary artform, Poetry + Photography with Andrew Zawacki (@f11andrewzawacki ) is a 4-week course that guides participants through the process of writing poems and making pictures in tandem. Each session introduces compelling projects that braid poetry and photography, followed by a workshop in which students share and discuss their experiments. Weekly readings and assignments will encourage inspiration and creative inquiry between classes.⁠ ⁠ This course is designed for novice to intermediate practitioners, ideally those who already practice photography or poetry writing. The sessions foster a supportive, exploratory environment meant to enrich each participant’s facility with generating and joining pictures and poems.⁠ ⁠ Saturdays, June 6 - 27 | 10am-12pm ET⁠ ⁠ Learn more at the link in @penumbrafoundation bio.

Congratulations Amanda Sauer, LTP 2023, on your exhibition! #Repost @amandajsauer ・・・ My exhibition “Giant Willow Oak/One Year Orbit” is now on view at Adkins Arboretum! 🎉 These are six distant views of the giant willow oak, which was one of the oldest and largest trees in Washington DC, made between 2020 - 2024. Each is an 18.5” x 15” archival pigment print on 20” x 16” Epson Legacy Platine paper. Available framed from @adkinsarboretum Amanda Sauer: Giant Willow Oak/One Year Orbit On View: May 5–June 26, 2026 Reception: Saturday, June 6, 2-4 pm /

Catch some LTP Alumni signings and books at @icp Photobook Fest today! Courtney Allen at Deadbeat Club’s table today at 2pm Ruth Lauer Manenti at Hartford Art School’s table at 3pm Ilisa Katz Rissman at the Red Hook Editions table at 4:30pm 📚📖📕📗📘📙📖📚 @courtneyreams @deadbeatclub @lauermanenti @editorial_rm @toomanyphotosintheworld @ilisakatzrissman @redhookeditions @andrewdmcclees @brownowlpress

LTP collaboration alert! Sugar Honey Iced Tea (For the Birds Trapped in Airports, 2025/6) by Sara J. Winston (LTP faculty) includes a poem by Ruth Lauer Manenti (LTP 20/21) titled, “Mother Paper Bird” The special clamshell set is an edition of 5. Designed and made by hand in Los Angeles, CA, USA by Matt Austin. This edition will be on view at the upcoming Upstate Photography Biennial at @cpw_kingston May 30, 2026 through September 6, 2026 @forthebirdstrappedinairports @sarajwinston @lauermanenti @imramirez

Congratulations @yoganmuller ! “JPM” was developed during his LTP year in 2024 ・・・ Last few copies of “JPM,” my new photobook dummy recently shortlisted with the 2026 @dummy.award and @the_photobookmuseum . It was first shortlisted in the 2025 @luma_arles Rencontres Dummy Book Award during the 56th @rencontresarles . JPM is a labor of love and manifold project on my late father who unexpectedly passed four years ago.

Applications for the 2026 Penumbra Workspace and Risograph Residencies are now open on Picter (@picter_com )! The deadline to submit for both programs is Tuesday, March 31st, at 11:59pm EST. ⁠Both applications are free to apply. ⁠ We are delighted to welcome this year’s program jurors:⁠ ⁠ Workspace A-I-R Program Jurors: Makeda Best (Deputy director of Curatorial Affairs at the Oakland Museum of California, curator, author, historian and educator) (@makeda_best ), Natasha Chuk (Media theorist, researcher, writer, and educator) (@natychuk ), and Walead Beshty (Artist and educator). ⁠ ⁠ Risograph Publication Residency Jurors: Catherine E. McKinley (Curator and writer) (@catherineemckinley ), Joshua Chuang (Director of Photography, Gagosian) (@joshuachuang ), and Travis Shaffer (Artist and educator) (@there.there.now ).⁠ ⁠ For guidelines on how to submit, tap the link in our bio. ⁠For additional questions, please reach out to [email protected].⁠ ⁠ ✶✶✶ ⁠ ⁠ Image: Spread from El Gobierno Te Odia by 2023 Risograph Resident Christopher Gregory-Rivera (@cgregoryrivera ). ⁠ ⁠ The Workspace A-I-R Program is sponsored in part by the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation (@leonianfoundation ) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA). The Risograph Residency is sponsored in part by the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation. Penumbra’s residency programs receive additional support from the Ruth Foundation for the Arts, Joy of Giving Something (JGS), The Lawrence Foundation, and are made possible by the New York State Council on the Art (@nyscouncilonthearts ) with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Dear friends in France, visit Tina Masoumi’s, LTP 2025, exhibition in Paris, opening soon! ✨ @tinaamasoumi ✨ ・・・ Je suis très heureuse de vous annoncer l’exposition collective « Care », un acte féministe, du mercredi 4 au mercredi 11 mars à la @galerie_m_photo . 
Le vernissage aura lieu le mercredi 4 mars à partir de 18h. J’ai la chance d’exposer aux côtés de @charbonnier_julie , qui présentera sa série « Le Velours des ronces », de @zoecavaro , avec « Important de disparaître », et de @tinaamasoumi et son travail « A Home Made of Us ». « Le care, prendre soin, plus qu’un rôle essentialiste auquel les femmes seraient assignées par nature, devient ici un acte féministe, politique et revendicatif à travers les regards de ces quatre photographes, dont les travaux tissent des liens entre l’intime et le politique. » C’est un sujet qui me tient particulièrement à cœur, et je suis profondément touchée de le faire vivre à travers cette réponse collective. L’exposition sera accompagnée de temps forts, dont une table ronde le mercredi 11 mars - plus d’informations à venir. Un grand merci à la @galerie_m_photo de s’engager pour le 8 mars, Journée internationale des droits des femmes, et d’organiser une exposition autour d’un thème qui m’est si cher. Merci également à @sasha_mongin pour son soutien précieux dans la réalisation de ce projet. Hâte de vous y voir ✨

Congratulations @ilisakatzrissman , LTP 2020, on the announcement of your forthcoming book with @redhookeditions ☀️ ・・・ Ilisa Katz Rissman’s “April” will be coming to redhookeditions.com this spring, 2026.

You can now pre-order ALBOW GARDENS by Alessandro Iovino, LTP 2023, via kickstarter! Link to purchase in @alessandro.iovino_ bio Bravissimo Alessandro!! ・・・ After five years of hard work, I am overjoyed to announce that ALBOW GARDENS will finally become a book and exist in the world thanks to the support of @gost_books We have launched a Kickstarter campaign aimed at raising the funds needed for the production and completion of the book. Through the pre-sale of ALBOW GARDENS and a selection of limited edition prints, you will help us bring this project to life. This first edition of 600 hardcover copies has been conceived and brought to its current state with the unwavering support of my family and friends and publisher Stuart Smith, whom I would like to thank. The book will be printed in Italy at @graficheantiga . Many other people have contributed to making this book possible, piece by piece, and from each of them I have learned something precious. Finally, I want to thank from the bottom of my heart the people of ALBOW GARDENS and the family of Cecil and Bianca and their wonderful children, who have been part of a very important chapter of my life. All my love goes to them. Pre-order the book and help us bring ALBOW GARDENS into the world. Link in bio.

The fabulous George Weld, LTP 2025, is teaching DEVELOPING WRITING FOR PHOTO PROJECTS virtually on Thursdays May - June 2026. Don’t sleep on this opportunity! ・・・ 📝 Integrating writing into a photo project presents unique challenges—how do images and text relate to one another? What is the most effective way to present them together? And most importantly, how can photographers elevate their writing to match the strength of their photographs? ⁠ ⁠ Developing Writing for Photo Projects with @GeorgeWeld is a 6-week online class designed to help photographers develop their image-text work by focusing on language as a material and examining how it functions on its own and in combination with images. ⁠ ⁠ Through workshops, guided readings, and discussions, students will produce an image-text zine or chapbook, using new work or a project they’ve been developing. Suitable for photographers at any stage of their project, this course supports a range of writing styles, from research-based nonfiction to lyrical prose. Those working on focused, book-oriented projects will find it especially rewarding.⁠ ⁠ Thursdays, May 7 - June 11 | 6-8pm⁠ ⁠ Seats will fill quickly–tap the link in profile to register. Images © Raymond Meeks and George Weld, The Inhabitants