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We are Unpress, an artist group that celebrates books and zines as mediums and enjoys publishing as a practice.
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We’re bringing a stack of Riso photobooks to @nowplacesf this Sunday night. If you’re a photobook fan and a risograph lover like us, come by the reading room. We’ll share how we print and publish our Riso photobook at @unpressedpatch . See you Sunday night! Location: Now Place 此間, 679 Clay St, San Francisco Date and Time: July, 26, 7:30–9:30 pm by @unpressedpatch
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Riso Photobook Reading Room with Unpress Hosted by Now Place 此間, Unpress will bring their Risograph photobooks to San Francisco and share them alongside other Riso-printed publications they’ve picked up at art book fairs and collected over the years. Tung-Lin Tsai, Sinistra Pan, and Howsem Huang will also share their self-publishing practice on how they communicate and collaborate across Turtle Island. The event starts at 7:30 pm on 7.26, right after the last day of the San Francisco Art Book Fair. RSVP link in bio, walk-ins are also welcome! Location: Now Place 此間, 679 Clay St, San Francisco Date and Time: July, 26, 7:30–9:30 pm by @unpressedpatch
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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. by @unpressedpatch
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Join us for the book launch: Plants as Roadblock as Graffiti, a photobook by James Wicks @jawicks75 , foreword by @karenanhwei . Published by Unpress, this book is printed in four-color Risograph by @someprintstudio . Plants as Roadblock as Graffiti is a photobook that looks at the streets of Taiwan through the quiet presence of ordinary plants. In many neighborhoods in Taiwan, potted plants are placed along the roadside. Sometimes it is to mark territory, sometimes to slow down traffic, sometimes simply to exist. Through Wicks’ photography and book design by Unpress, the book reveals a vibrant street ecology where plants, scooters, and cars coexist in the dense everyday landscape of the island. Book launch: April 20, 2026 Colt Hall, Point Loma Nazarene University 3–4 PM by @unpressedpatch
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We are thrilled to announce Unpress’ new title, Plants as Roadblock as Graffiti, by James Wicks @jawicks75 . Please join us at the book launch at Colt Hall, Point Loma Nazarene University. April 20, 2026 Colt Hall 3–4 PM Taiwanese food reception to follow by @unpressedpatch
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We are thrilled to announce two of our upcoming artist‘s talks centered around our newly published book, How to Fold a Paper Airplane. The author of the book, Tung Lin Tsai @tsaitungtung , alongside book designer Howsem Huang @howsem , will be sharing the publishing journey of this unique Riso photobook, covering everything from the initial stages of image-making through to the final publication design process. The first artist’s talk will be taking place at CONTACT photobook Lab in Toronto @contact_pbl , followed by another talk at Rooney‘s @shoprooneys . Both events are free and NO rsvp required. Event details are listed here: CONTACT Photobook Lab 80 Spadina Ave. #205, Toronto, ON January 22 at 7pm EST Rooney’s 724 Main St E, Hamilton, ON January 24 at 6pm EST How to Fold a Paper Airplane is a photobook created by Taiwanese photographer and bookmaker Tung Lin Tsai. The book unfolds through a deliberately fractured structure. Conceived from the author’s recurring dream of a giant red paper airplane drifting above Taipei, the book translates this image of absurdity into a reading experience where crisis and daily life coexist. by @unpressedpatch
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Happy New Year! We’re excited to start the year with news of our upcoming publication. We‘ve been working with James Wicks @jawicks75 over the past few months on his new book about plants and city landscapes in Taiwan. The book will be printed in Risograph and hand-bound by Unpress. Follow us for more updates on this new title! by @unpressedpatch
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Degradable Story Written by Sinistra Pan in 2023. Published by unpress in 2025. A recyclable poem, 3D printed in Polylactic Acid (PLA). Degradable Story interrogates the commodification of environmental protection through material and form. The work comprises eleven 3D-printed pages (60mm × 45mm × 0.6mm) bound by a single 3D-printed ring (12mm × 12mm × 2.0mm). The text inscribed within reads: —— I am a book of poems a tale to be told meant to be read and meant to be thrown I live in your hands your heart your space Degradable stories leaving nary a trace —— The project began with a doubt. As Sinistra recycled the waste of 3D prints into the recycling bin, he was reminded of the black hole in Shinichi Hoshi’s “Can Anyone Hear Me?”—a void believed to erase all trash, allowing people to produce more waste without guilt, until one day the trash began to return. This image lingered. He began to question the promise behind the eco-friendly label: was it purely for earth, or merely a way to comfort people and sustain the market’s appetite? Each copy of Degradable Story is produced using leftover filament from the end of each spool. As a result, the color of every copy is unpredictable and never fixed. by @unpressedpatch
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There’s no more fun than making a basic letter-size zine—except there is. Meet @unpressedpatch ‘s latest zine 3andwich Issue 2: Tomato, Tomato, Tomato. The zine follows the classic 8-page format but is printed on large paper. When unfolded, it becomes a 17.5×23 inch poster. The zine will be first available at @pioneerworks Press Play 2025 in Brooklyn, on Dec 13 & 14. by @unpressedpatch
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3andwich is a collaborative photo publication created by Unpress members Tung Lin Tsai @tsaitungtung , Howsem Huang @howsem , and Sinistra Pan @sinistrapan . Each issue begins with a simple, shared object, using it as a way to observe how everyday things fracture and multiply once filtered through different cultural and linguistic contexts. In Tomato, Tomato, Tomato, the second issue of 3andwich, we turn to one of the most common fruits in the world — tomato. In Mandarin alone, “西紅柿” and “番茄” both translate to “tomato,” but each term carries its own regional memory, sensorial associations, and embedded histories. These differences are small enough to overlook, yet significant enough to reveal how language shapes what we see, taste, and recognize. When language shifts, does the object itself remain the same, or does it, too, transform? Edition of 75 17.5 x 23 in. (unfolded poster) 5.75 x 8.75 (8-page zine) printed in Risograph by @someprintstudio by @unpressedpatch
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Come find us at Press Play 2025 @pioneerworks in Brooklyn, New York! We‘re so excited to share our photo zines, inkjet and Riso prints, plus lots of other fun goodies we’ve put together for you this year. We can‘t wait to see you there. More updates coming soon! by @unpressedpatch
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10/02 - 10/26 [書展] 寫給影像的告白：跨越攝影、出版與感官的實踐 to images: Practices Across Photography Publishing and the Senses ✨書籍作品介紹✨ 《Is A Black Swan A False Swan?》Sinistra Pan 一本探索符號構成的小誌。符號構成是一種表達和傳遞信息的認知過程，作者 Sinistra Pan 透過 Falseswan 這本小誌審視「天鵝」一詞及其語境的轉變，揭示不同層面符號化過程。Falseswan討論符號如何隨時間被創造和改變，它展示了社會的發展和新信息如何能改變符號的含義。Falseswan暗示符號化有兩個階段：前符號狀態和後符號狀態。它探索符號如何在追求溝通和知識的過程中被創造、修改和放棄。 - 《世界末日大平賣》 Howsem Huang 一本攝影藝術小誌，收錄了於舊金山唐人街拍攝的一系列市場場景。書籍設計中引入不同的材質──瓦楞紙與晾衣夾──以邀請讀者與作品互動。這本藝術小誌作為一種觀念性的提問，回應Howsem Huang作為廣州華人所交織的身分，以及他對「母國之外」生活所懷抱的矛盾情感。 - 《ㄨㄢˇㄢ / ㄨㄛˇㄞˋㄋㄧˇ》(2nd Edition) Sinistra Pan 兩本手翻書，其內容展示人念"晚安"與"我愛你"時的嘴部特寫，封面則是這兩個詞的注音。反直覺的是，這兩本書的封面實際上是交換的——「ㄨㄢㄢ」內展示的是念"我愛你"的唇部特寫，而「ㄨㄛㄞㄋㄧ」內展示的是"晚安"的唇部特寫。讀者帶着封面注音的預期翻閱內容時，往往錯誤地認為封面與內容是相符的。這在某種程度上反映了"人會聽到自己想聽到的"這一現象。 這兩個詞的選用，不僅因為它們嘴形相似、使用場景相似，而且人們在說出它們時通常都是輕聲細語。當這種誤差出現時，仿佛產生了一種類似量子物理中疊加態的曖昧狀態。重點已不在於對方說了什麼，而在於自己的心。 --------- 📗📘📙 --------- 【2場關於攝影自出版座談 】 座談①《迎向攝影自出版的年代》 時間：10/11 (六)13:00-15:00 與談人：美國紙漿合作社(Unpress) 成員：蔡東霖、Howsem Huang、Sinistra Pan 主持：hiponoz（攝影書店）、蘇厚文（攝影家） 報名：https://reurl.cc/koz7VG 座談② 《紙上的凝視》 時間：10.11 (六) 15:30-17:00 與談人：陳彥呈（藝術家、「白水」出版社創辦人）、劉妍蓁（藝術家、moro young出版計畫創辦人）、謝振允（藝術家）、蘇厚文（藝術家） 主持：hiponoz（攝影書店創辦人) 報名：https://shorturl.at/dNgXZ ________________________________ ​ 策展人｜ 蘇厚文 @hou_wen_su 策展協力｜hiponoz @hiponoz 展覽協力｜Emily Hsieh @emilybleu 視覺設計｜周芳伃 @louise_fun0924 場地協力｜鬧咖啡 NOW coffee @nowcoffee.tw 主辦單位｜鬧工作室 NOW studio @nowstudio.tw _______________________________ ​ 鬧工作室 火石仔hué-tsiỏh-á 計劃 —— 2F書架 寫給影像的告白：跨越攝影、出版與感官的實踐 10.02-10.26, 2025 鬧咖啡 2F書架 ​ 配合鬧咖啡營業時間 Mon. - Sat. 10:00-21:30 Sun. 11:00-19:00 taken in 鬧咖啡 NOW coffee by @unpressedpatch
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