recent work from Cloth Hallway, 2025, gelatin silver prints

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Selected for photo-eye favorite books 2024 by

Tricia Gabriel, Todd Hido, Rebecca Norris Webb and Terri Weifenbach

“It is sometimes the quietest books that have the most profound impact. Ruth Lauer Manenti's images, taken of her mother and the house she lived in shortly before she passed, have such a light and airy minimal quality that they almost become symbolic universal representations (Mother, Bed, Apple, Bowl, Cloth, Table), as Manenti records the small daily tasks of caring for a loved one.” -Todd Hido

Winner of The 2023 Star Photobook Dummy Award- I Imagined It Empty

Published by: Phree, Ediciones Posibles, RM Editorial

2023 Penumbra Foundation - judged by Samira Yamin- photographs chosen to be made into photogravures

Klompching Gallery FRESH 2022 annual photography exhibition - finalist

2nd place LensCulture Art Photography 2022 Award for the series Excerpts