2025 Recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grant in photography
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