Paper Making

Hahnemühle is the oldest paper mill in Germany-and indeed the worldwhich has consistently produced fine art paper since its inception over 400 years ago. Using their own supply of spring water and imported pulps, Hahnemühle crafts luxury papers based on time-tested traditional methods. In Papermaking, Koto Bolofo graphically captures Hahnemühle's artisanal processes and antique machinery alongside today's most advanced technologies, uncovering the attention to detail, vision and pride that have sustained the company's unmatched reputation for centuries.

Koto Bolofo was born in South Africa in 1959 and raised in Great Britain. Bolofo has photographed for magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and GQ, and made short films for the Berlinale and Venice Film Festival. He has created advertising campaigns for companies including Hermès, Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton and Dom Pérignon, and his books with Steidl include Venus (2008), I Spy with My Little Eye, Something Beginning with S (2010), Grande Complication (2010), Vroom! Vroom! (2010), La Maison (2011), Horse Power (2011), Lord Snowdon (2012), The Prison (2014) and Rolls-Royce (2014).