The Hahnemühle Paper That Makes a Portrait

Ask ten people where the quality of a print lives, and nine point to the ink. The tenth has once held Hahnemühle Photo Rag in their hands.

Hahnemühle Photo Rag is no marketing term. It is 100% cotton paper of 308 grams, on which pigment ink settles just into the surface rather than resting on top of it. Transitions within a coat stay soft as a result; eyes keep their depth.

A screen forgives much. Archival paper forgives nothing.

So we pull proofs, calibrate on profiled monitors and check every sheet by hand. A portrait that was "good enough" on screen fails mercilessly on cotton — and that is precisely why we work with it.

— the atelier