The unforgiving print and the importance of paper choice

Joel Tjintjelaar is a photographer, educator and writer with a passion for black & white photography, architecture and long exposure photography. He  runs the bw/vision.com blog where we stumbled upon an article by Red Ognita on the importance of printing superbly in order to call an image fine art. Red Ognita is a multi award-winning…

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An image with history: The World Trade Center as an etching

On the occasion of the 14th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York we are honoured to publish a guest article on an image of personal and world history written by Robert Dutruch, photographer and printer at Lost Hills Studio in New Orleans, USA.

Urban Sketchers Chicago – Chicago Sketch Seminar 2015

written by Andrew Banks, Urban Sketchers Chicago group administrator and Blog Contributor As an offshoot of the global Urban Sketchers organization the Urban Sketchers Chicago held the second Chicago Sketch Seminar on 11 and 12 July, 2015 at the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts and the surrounding Gold Coast neighborhood.  This two day…

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It´s movie time! Cineastes edition of Julian Rentzsch and Stellavie

It is the profound love and appreciation for movies and their creators that truly inspired these collection of prints by Stellavie. The Hamburg based design studio is run by Steffen Heidemann and Viktoria Klein. This time, the duo partnered up with illustrator Julian Rentzsch. Pairing skillfully set typography and beautiful Hahnemühle William Turner cotton paper…

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From sketch to animation

Guest article by Kiana Naghshineh The cartoon plot: Two brothers who could not be more different: One is tall, somewhat deceitful and rude, the other is a sensitive and naive boy, how you can be as the younger child.

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The Print's the Thing

Guest column written by Jay Fine The Statue of Liberty and fireworks in NY Harbor are frequent themes in my photography. Unlike most places in the U.S., Lower Manhattan, my home for the last decade, gets treated to spectacular firework displays year round. Anyone with enough money can hire a pyrotechnic company and have their…

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Quaint and abstract – Internationally recognized photo art by Peter Braunholz

It all started with a twitter post by Peter Braunholz: “Received ArtSlant Photography Award, Los Angeles/USA, for ‘Diametral’, Print on #Hahnemühle #PhotoRag® Ultra Smooth.” We got in contact with the internationally renowned photographer and invited him to participate in a Q & A. Read on about his reality-inspired, epic large-format fine art prints made exclusively on Hahnemühle paper, for…

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Month of Wedding Photography: Q&A with Florian Commaille (France)

When did you discover your passion for photography? When I was a kid, I watched my father taking pictures on our family holidays with his analog camera. He loved to shoot sunsets and monuments at night. Even thought I had my first digital camera at the age of 20, we can say I had this…

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"A magnificent barite paper" – the new Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta Satin in Test

Hahnemühle has been very active in introducing new fine art inkjet papers. At Photokina 2014 Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta Satin 300 gsm was announced as the latest addition to the world’s leading Digital FineArt Collection. As a ‘Certified Studio’ in the Netherlands, I was able to test the new paper extensively and completely independent in my…

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