Printer Profile >Sarah McIntyre, @sarahmpix
Paper Choice: Juniper Baryta Rag 305
Why do you choose this paper?: Whether I'm printing in color or black and white, the phenomenal texture and depth of Juniper Baryta make it my first choice for fine art prints. (Though I love all the Moab papers I've printed with!)
Photography Style: To me, photography is storytelling, whether I'm photographing landscapes, architecture, or portraits... I love the challenge of telling the story in front of me from a unique perspective.
Why do you print / have your work printed?: I believe in the importance and power of print. Photography - like all artwork - is meant to be displayed and appreciated, not just looked at on a screen. Further, prints stand the test of time and technology. Too many people lose their photos to hard drive crashes or lost phones. How many people have lost photos from five years ago because of a technology failure, but have family photos in their attic from 100 years ago? I'm constantly encouraging my friends to print their photos, even if they're "casual" images shot on an iPhone. Print matters!
Do you print yourself or through a lab? If you use a lab, which lab?: I print limited edition photographs myself, with a Canon Pro-4000. I do use print labs for albums and some other specialty products, and my labs of choice for those products are Bay Photo and White House Custom Colour.
Anything else you would like to add.: I'm proud to be a Moab enthusiast - a Moab junkie, even! - and very glad to have Juniper available for my printmaking again.
I traveled to Rome this spring, and as I've worked through my photographs, I've printed my favorite images on Juniper.
Print is a great way to share an incredible journey with others, and it's also a fantastic way to relive those moments. There's something profound about how I remember a place when I hold an actual print of a photograph I created there. It returns me to that time in a completely different way.
This is, of course, true of photographs I've made anywhere - including in my lifelong home (and forever photographic muse) of New Mexico, which as of May 2022 is experiencing unprecedented wildfires. The black and white sunset image of the capilla (chapel) that leads my Printer Profile is in one of the worst-affected areas. These places, which I've photographed for years, are forever changed: communities devastated, lives upended, and so much destroyed. Though photographs cannot restore these places, or take away the suffering of the affected communities, I am grateful to have photographed them - and to be able to share these images in print.
