Last week, we launched the US edition of What Makes a Photobook Sustainable?, a publication that opens up vital conversations about how we are making and circulating photography books, published by Penumbra and printed on our Risograph machine.
@DollyMeieran , one of the book’s contributors and printer of the US edition, shares more on the process behind making the second edition and the layout of the reading room. Paper was sourced locally from
@paperoutletnyc .
What Makes a Photobook Sustainable?, first published by
@Manual.Editions in the UK, was launched to celebrate three years of research and conversations by the Sustainable Photobook Publishing (SPP) network (
@sppnetwork ). The book is a compendium of forty case studies along with roundtable discussions, essays, quotes, and prompts that collectively seek to demystify the publishing process - illuminating how books are made and illustrating why knowing, and asking questions, plays a fundamental part in making better, more strategic choices for both people and the planet.
The selection of books in the mini reading room is representative of the SPP network as a now global platform, and illustrates how photographers and publishers are navigating practical sustainability solutions, ethical social practices, and decolonial initiatives that suggest ecological futures for the photobook. The display reuses the risograph printing test sheets from the US edition of the book.
To purchase a copy of What Makes a Photobook Sustainable?, please click the link in bio.
Browse the reading room, on view in our Exhibition Space, during gallery hours: Monday—Friday, from 2—6pm
