Pamela Williams Crist is an award-winning photographer living in Greensboro, North Carolina.  Pam is the founder of Dalmatian Black and White Custom Lab, which specializes in black & white custom processing and printing, serving professional photographers, ad agencies and corporations nationwide.

        Pam’s commercial design & illustration work led her to photography and a passion for black and white. Pam has studied with leading black and white photographers John Sexton, Morely Baer, Huntington Witherill and with Alan Matthews at the Cortona Center of Photography in Tuscany, Italy.

        Pam is collected on both the corporate and private levels. Awards include: twice winning the North Carolina Photographers annual “Best of Competition” award; the prestigious “Best of the Best” International Award; and a $50,000 award presented by the Photo Marketing Association, in which she combined her photography and design background into award winning ads.

        Crist has recently won best in show in the Greensboro Artists League “All Members Show”, 2004 and was chosen as one of the 6 finalists for the High Point, Winston-Salem, and Greensboro Arts Council’s “Art in the Air”.  She is looking forward to two solo shows in 2005 at the Center for Visual Artists Gallery and the High Point Theatre Gallery.

        All of Pam’s prints are corner mounted onto 4 ply acid free board and are generously over-matted with 8 ply museum quality archival 100% acid free matte board and backed with acid free foam core. This means that the print and its surroundings will remain acid free insuring, for the purchaser, that they are receiving a print that can last many lifetimes.  Each individual print is signed on the front, and signed, titled, and dated on the back.

Pam’s Giclée Process:
        A Giclée (pronounced zhee clay) is a high end resolution ink jet print on archival watercolor paper or canvas with pigment inks that have an estimated longevity of 200 years or more.  The French term means "to spray forcefully" and the cornerstone of the Giclée process is the enhanced digital inkjet printer which has been specifically modified for fine art precision.  The inks used in this process are the most archival water-based organic inks available in the world today.  The printer uses a continuous tone technology by which infinitely small pixels of ink are capable of rendering an amazingly smooth and consistant image.  Because there are no screens involved, Giclée prints have an even higher resolution than lithographs.
        Dalmatian's process is created with six shades of black using the Cone Edition Inks and state of the art technology, making ours the finest process available in the world today.  The quality and costs are similar to our best custom fine art fiber prints. The process is also similar to fiber printing in that it has the artist/printer creating in the computer what was traditionally done in the darkroom.   While, the process is still time consuming, the control and attention to detail far surpasses that of conventional darkroom fiber printing.  As far as conventional RC prints are concerned the Gicée print wins hands down with it's control, repeatability and archivability.  All in all, the Giclée print is the finest product digitally produced and is a handsome alternative to custom fiber prints.

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