Moab Photo Symposium

The 7th annual Moab Photo Symposium kicks off today with a keynote presentation by world-renowned landscape photographer, Jack Dykinga.  Every year they take a theme and build the workshops and events around a specific subject.  This year's theme is "Personalizing Space."

Held throughout Moab, the symposium features a variety of workshops on night photography, printing, HDR, portfolio development and many more.  As the symposium occurs in our backyard we'll be there handing out swatch books, showing off our new Somerset Museum Rag, and saying hi to old friends.  For more information please click here.

Moab Master Return from Iceland

We're always excited when some of our "Moab Masters" check in from around the globe so when we saw "Iceland" in the subject line from photographer Jim Graham we got a little excited. 

Jim has been to Iceland numerous times to capture the beauty of this volcanic island, but we haven't seen anything as explosive as these images he brought back.  His story is as exciting as his photos.  Click here to read about his trip.

The cotton in our papers

Cotton is the ultimate eco-friendly material used in some of our papers such as Entrada and Somerset.  In fact, the cotton used to manufacture these papers is not from the puffy white flower that we all recognize as cotton, but rather the linters, or byproduct, from the textile industry.  Textiles are made using the longest, highest-quality fibers - the rest is discarded.  This wasted cotton is salvaged and used to manufacture our cotton papers.  Nothing could be more eco-friendly than reusing a product that is considered waste - otherwise this would all end up in the trash.

More information on cotton & the environment can be found here:

Assembling Chinle Leather Albums

The Chinle Leather Albums have been a popular item for years.  Every so often we start to get questions from new customers on the proper way to assemble them.  

The beauty of these books is their ease of use - both in terms of printing on the pre-scored/pre-drilled pages as well as putting the pages into the book.

Aperture, Parsons & New School Panel Discussion

Aperture and the photography department in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School present a panel discussion entitled Open Cover Before Striking: Confounding Expectations.  

The panel will be comprised of artists Roe Ethridge, Collier Schorr, and James Hoff & Miriam Katzeff of Primary Information, to discuss the pressing question:

As print faces the encroachment of digital technology and the mainstreaming of online culture, what is the viability of the printed and published form of photography—monographic, serial, underground, or otherwise—as a means of artistic production?

This panel discussion will be moderated by Gil Blank, artist and founding editor of Influence magazine.