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.
Close-up photographs to make a change … interview with photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale
“If your pictures aren´t good enough, you´re not close enough” once stated Robert Capa, co-founder of Magnum Photos. Marcus Bleasdale is one of the world’s leading documentary photographers who is close to social, ethnic or economic conflicts around the world and got the Robert Capa Gold Medal 2015 for his reportage photography. He increasingly uses…
Achema 2015 – Winner of the Apple iPad mini 3 announced
At this year’s Achema 2015 in Frankfurt Hahnemühle invited visitors to take part in a puzzle! Visitors had to estimate how many syringe filters are filled in the large glass cylinder. Different methods took place, some estimated, counted and used a variety of mathematical calculations.
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…
Hahnemühle´s Calendar Contest – submission period has ended
Whether it’s the contemporary urban garden, or the typical local park area, living walls or enchanting backyard: nature makes every city come alive, resulting in calming harmony or exciting contrasts. Over 400 artists from 35 countries filed more than 900 images to the competition. Many thanks to all participants! From all submissions, a jury will…
Animal Architecture – by Wildlife Photographer Ingo Arndt
Animals are great architects – and that they were in the times when human beings were still living in caves. Nature photographer Ingo Arndt is touring with his series of epic large fine art prints around natural history museums the world and shows in the current series “Animal Architecture” the filigree or monumental structures of…
Achema 2015 – Visitors caricatured on Hahnemühle filter paper
Visitors had a lot of fun during their visit at the Hahnemühle booth. Marc Robitzky, Illustrator caused this with his cartoons, laughter and joy. Temporarily, people had to wait in long queues, but this opened the opportunity to watch the artist creating the artworks. The enclosed gallery presents a selection of the sketches on Hahnemühle filter paper. …
Art project "Recording – mutual all by themselves" by Marc Robitzky, Illustrator
Since I can remember, I always liked drawing and painting and analysing my surrounding like a detective does. I always claim that drawing explained life to me. My first step with art began at school age, when I made had my first graffiti jobs. The next step to start a design study was therefore not…
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…
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…