VINTAGE TIN: THE LOST ARCHIVE
Beyond the stock photo. Museum-grade Australian iron.
Years ago I shot these for a book project that never happened. Australian automotive graveyards, the rusted FJs, Fords, and decades of iron sitting in paddocks across rural NSW and Victoria. I documented them in 2009. By 2015, councils and the EPA had cleared most of them away.
The archive sat on hard drives doing nothing until a mate asked if he could use one for a shower splashback. He got it printed. Next thing, people kept asking him where to buy a print.
I thought about going for volume, flogging them on posters, t-shirts, hats. Then I thought, no. If I'm going to do this, I'm doing it properly.
Printed on heavyweight archival paper. The same stock museums use (310gsm acid-free cotton rag, to be exact). Rolled in a sturdy 3mm tube and shipped to your door. I recommend resisting the urge to open it at home and suggest you take it straight to your framer. I've generously left him two inches to work with around the photo. He'll know how to let it relax out of its rolled state so it sits perfectly flat for framing. The kind of print that will outlast anyone looking at it. Printed in Perth by Fitzgerald Photo Imaging, proudly Australian, just like the beauties in the photos.
For your shed wall, your office, or anywhere you can crack a beer and remember when Australia was an innovative manufacturing powerhouse, before we were sold down the river by the politicians and the suits who handed our birthright to foreign ownership.
Stornoway specializes in commercial construction, but over the years we have undertaken a number of projects in industrial and residential property construction. We are a flexible team with expertise in all aspects of construction work.
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310gsm acid-free cotton rag. Museum standard. Built to outlast the wall it hangs on.
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