We Print Photobooks with RISO
About a year before we founded our RISO studio in LA, we had already been running Unpress / 紙漿合作社, an independent publishing collective, for around two years.
In the beginning, we were simply three photography graduates from California College of the Arts who loved making books. Later, one of our members moved to Toronto, acquired a RISO printer, and founded a Risograph print studio. Since then, we have been making photobooks with RISO more and more frequently.
James Wicks is an artist and documentary filmmaker from San Diego. Exactly one year ago, he submitted a photography series to us by email: a body of work made during his time living in Taiwan, focusing on street potted plants.
After a year of preparation, the book was finally printed in four colors on RISO by our Unpress member in Toronto, who also runs our sister RISO printshop,
@someprintstudio .
This April, the project was officially published as a limited-edition photobook of 100 copies:
Plants as Roadblock as Graffiti
Tomorrow, May 8 at 1 PM, James Wicks will be signing books at the
@unpressedpatch booth, K10, at the LA Art Book Fair.