Moab Master, Douglas Kirkland, is featured among some of his peers in this Wired magazine tribute to the people behind some of today's most iconic photos.  

Photographer Tim Mantoani captures each portrait with the enormous 20×24 Polaroid format.

"Over the course of the project, some of the photographers who participated passed away. Polaroid went belly up, making 20×24 film that much harder to come by. The weight of each photo’s importance as a historic document became more apparent with each loss."

The spotlight in our booth will be focused on the new Slickrock Metallic Pearl. If you've been pondering whether to give this paper a test-drive, then swing by our booth #316 to pick up your free sample.

We'll also be showing (and sampling) the Museo range of fine art inkjet papers, including their 100% cotton Artist Cards. 

Hope to see you this weekend.

Our friends down under at Giclee Media drafted a rather poignant newsletter today that we'd like to share with the rest of the Moab community:

Many of us began by dipping silver halide papers into foul smelling chemicals under deep orange safe lights and became forever hooked on the photographic process.

Today the 5th January 2012, it was reported in The Wall Street Journal that Kodak may file for bankruptcy.

The name Kodak, coined by George Eastman, its founder, almost defined photography for 130 years. Australians such as myself, who grew up in the Northern Melbourne suburbs knew many fathers who worked at the giant Kodak factory in Coburg making Kodacolour, film and printing papers.

This rather sad omen for the possible ultimate death of silver based processing should have been expected after the collapse of Agfa. This is a message to all photographers that the only viable printed image is that from a pigment inkjet printer.

Our Moab Lasal Exhibition Luster 300, typifies the outright quality that inkjet can produce being much heavier and with a wider colour gamut than common silver halide papers. Colour Silver based papers are typically around the 230-250 gsm mark, much lighter than high end inkjet papers and therefore there can still be a cost advantage in printing by the old methods - if their manufactures remain viable.

So 2012 will become a pivotal year for digital printing. Not because of any fundamentally new inventions but because it may define the time period by which the majority of professional printing is done on a wide format or desktop inkjet device.

We'd like to share this year-long exposure of the Toronto skyline by photographer Michael Chrisman. Yup, a 365 day solargraph exposure.  

We needed to brush up on what exactly solargraphy was, so we turned to this site.

Through an an extensive tour of the country, "Farber was able to capture and convey, in a beautiful, wordless way, the essence of the values, among others, Mexicans have chosen to remember, inspire and strengthen: Their sense of pride, their devotion to work, faith and family, their joy of life, and the beauty that surrounds them."

The result is this gorgeous Red Silk wrapped portfolio box (18x24 inches, 46 x 61cm) which includes a collection of four limited edition prints, signed and numbered plus signed title page all printed on Somerset Enhanced Velvet fine art archival paper.  

Aside from this limited edition portfolio project, there are exhibitions being organized for Mexico, NorthAmerica and other countries around the world.

The Slickrock Metallic Pearl paper got another nod from the editors at Digital Photo magazine who gave the paper their Editor's Choice award.

It's only natural that we think our papers are awesome, but it's nice to be recognized once in a while by our industry.  If you haven't tried the Slickrock Metallic or Lasal Exhibition Luster papers yet (and want to find out what all the excitement is about) then contact us for a free sample.