<div style="color: #000000;">One thing that I love about trends is their cyclical nature. When I first started covering stationery in the late 1990s, cards featuring photography were omnicient, but their presence steadily dwindled as letterpress took its hold.</div>
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<div style="color: #000000;">Now I&#8217;m seeing a resurgence of the category, but gone (thankfully!) are the photographs of disgustingly cute children, puppies and kittens. Instead, we have distinctive, compelling viewpoints like <a href="http://www.modern-lore.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Modern Lore</a> and, a more recent discovery of mine, <a href="http://www.talfoto.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tal Shpantzer</a>.</div>
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<div style="color: #000000;">The New York-based photographer has a client list that reads like a who&#8217;s who of cool, including HBO, MTV, NBC, Harper&#8217;s Bazaar and Walt Disney Signature, to name just a few. Tal&#8217;s inspiration is the relationship between natural forms that underlies the essential inter-connectivity of all beings — a concept articulated again and again in her vibrant <a href="http://talfoto.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blog</a>.</div>
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<div style="color: #000000;">Tal&#8217;s Petal Cards stem from her Petal Series portraits of women and flowers.</div>
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<div>These cards were actually created to raise funds for a book of the series, but as she began to receive press and wholesale orders, Tal wisely decided to extend the line.</div>
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<div>Fall and Holiday cards are coming out soon, but in the meantime you can shop her cards <a href="https://talfoto.com/search?q=cards" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. $5 each, with sets also available. Don&#8217;t forget to check out Tal&#8217;s prints, pillows and journals too!</div>
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