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MOAB MASTER APPOINTMENT – AUSTRALIA’S FIRST MOAB MASTER AND YOUR CHANCE TO OWN A GOLD APPA PRINT

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I am both extremely pleased and proud to announce that Legion Paper and Moab who produce my absolute favourite photographic papers have officially designated and appointed me as one of their Moab Masters. This makes me to date the first and only Australian photographer to be honoured by Moab with Master status and I would like to thank them for their support. From Moabs website:

Moab Master photographers are a select group of artists connected by their unique visions and their love of reproducing their images on Moab fine art paper.  You’ll notice some well-established photographers in the galleries below, as well as photographers on the rise.  Moab is proud to be associated with these artists and thank them for trusting Moab with their images.

To my friends in the USA and abroad this means that some of my photography and prints will now be taken and exhibited by Moab to trade shows around the country. You should be able to see some of my photography in print at PhotoPlus Expo in New York as soon as October this year.

To celebrate the appointment I am going to be offering a strictly limited number of my 2011 Fine Art Landscape GOLD Award winning APPA (Australian Professional Photography Awards) Print ‘Blue Berg’. If you are a photographer or collector of fine art photography and have always wondered what a GOLD award winning APPA print looked like then this is your unique chance to own one. Alternatively, if you are just starting out in collecting photography then this will be a very fine start to your collection. This limited ‘special’ edition print will be made on 13 x 19 Moab Somerset Museum Rag paper; which is my absolute favourite fine art paper and will be signed and accompanied by a matching certificate of authenticity. Each print and certificate will include a serialised and numbered hologram identifying its unique number in this edition and verifying its authenticity. Each certificate will be printed on Moab Japanese Moenkopi Washi paper. This Moenkopi Washi paper is made of all natural mulberry fibres by the finest artisans at the Awagami Factory in Tokushima Japan. It is the perfect accompaniment  to a paper as beautiful and sensual as Somerset Museum Rag. Each ‘pigment on paper’ print will be printed, inspected and signed by me personally and will ship to you flat on archival acid free foam core in a clear archival bag ready for the matt and frame of your choice. This is a strictly limited special edition of 50 prints to celebrate the appointment as a Moab Master and once orders are filled there will be no more. Each print investment is being offered at the special price of $500 plus delivery. Please contact Philip Kulpa at the Source Photographica Gallery in Brighton for any enquiries or to place your order. Philip can be contacted via email at philip@sourcephoto.com.au or via phone on +61 3 9530 6059. Don’t miss your chance to own a special limited edition GOLD Award APPA print!

Limited Edition GOLD APPA Print
Abandoned Blue Berg

NATURE’S BEST PHOTOGRAPHY – SEMI FINALIST 2011

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I’ve been away up at Mount Buller for some skiing and snow play with my kids over the last few days and I was very pleased to learn on my return to Melbourne last night that one of my photographs has been selected as a semi-finalist in the Windland Smith Rice International Awards. There were more than 21,000 photographs submitted this year to this award; which is run by Natures Best Photography and I thrilled to have one of my photographs selected to go through in to the semi-finals. At this stage I need to supply additional ‘exif’ information and a higher resolution file for further judging. I cannot as yet disclose which photograph has been selected as the next round of judging has not yet been completed; but will do so as soon as possible.

MOAB PAPER – SOMERSET MUSEUM RAG FINE ART PAPER

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The good folks over at Moab have an update on their blog about one of my prints that took out a Gold award at this year’s APPA awards (Australian Professional Photography Awards). The print (in fact all four of my APPA prints) were all made on Moab Somerset Museum Rag paper; which is my absolute favourite fine art photographic paper. I have two exhibitions opening later this year 2011 at Source Photographica in Brighton and at the Wilderness Gallery at Cradle Mountain in Tasmania and both will be printed on Somerset Museum Rag paper.

There are high resolution images of my APPA award entries on my primary portfolio website at www.jholko.com

2011 AUSTRALIAN APPA AWARDS – BLUE BERG WINS GOLD

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The 2011 Australian APPA Awards have now come and gone. The awards dinner was held this evening in Sydney at Darling Harbour; unfortunately I was unable to attend as I only arrived home from New Zealand yesterday morning and had much to do on my return. I doubt I could have made it there regardless since flights have only now returned to normal due to the volcanic ash cloud from Chile (that must be because I have stopped flying for the moment!). I was shooting up in the wilderness near Arthur’s pass in the South Island when the judging from the APPA awards was being live streamed so was unable to tune in; but was thrilled to learn on my return to Christchurch that I had won a Gold award and three Silver awards for the four prints I had submitted. Gold Awards in the Landscape Category at APPA’s are extraordinary and I feel very privileged to have had my work judged to such a standard. The APPA awards are somewhat unique these days in that all judging is done of actual prints by a panel of highly experienced photographers (rather than by submission of digital images). The craft of the print is as important as the image itself and its fantastic to be a part of such an event. All of my prints were made on my absolute favourite paper Moab Somerset Museum Rag. Photography after all “Is all about the Print”. The photograph and print that won Gold was ‘Blue Berg’; which was photographed in Iceland last year near the Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon. My print received scores of 88, 90, 92, 92 and 93 from the five judges; giving it an average of 91 – a Gold Award.A higher resolution version of this photograph is available to view on my portfolio website at www.jholko.com under Iceland. This print is also currently on display as part of Nillumbik prize at Montsalvat in Eltham until the end of July. It will be part of an exhibition later this year at both Source Photographica in Brighton and at the Wilderness Gallery in Tasmania.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO OF THE WEEK

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I just found out one of my photographs from Namafjall in Iceland “Highway to Hell” made it to Travel Photograph of the week at National Geographic magazine.  This photograph holds special memories of Iceland for me as the soft rosy light that illuminated the rising sulphur and clouds lasted no more than a few seconds before the thick clouds obscured the dawn glow and turned the skies to dull grey. A high resolution wallpaper can also be downloaded from National Geographic’s website HERE. Prints are available through Source Photographica in Brighton.