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Peten Field Trip
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Heliconia flowers (relatives of the banana and bird of paradise) photo by Nicholas Hellmuth.Taken with a Phase One P25 medium format back. These Heliconia were made available for photography courtesy of Marcel Roehrs, owner of La Selva Maya, Guatemala.

Our People at our main office

FLAAR employs a number of different people from varying backgrounds. We believe this mix is one factor that makes our institute effective as we monitor the development of digital imaging technology worldwide. All the full-time employees are Guatemalan (logical, since our main office is in Central America). But volunteers tend to come primarily from Europe, either German-speaking or from Eastern Europe or the Balkan area.

Dr Nicholas Hellmuth is the founder, President, and Director of FLAAR. A Harvard graduate, Nicholas has spent many decades working in Latin America, including while holding three research Fellowships at Yale University in the 1970's. FLAAR still has its office in Guatemala and we do many of our studies here of how wide-format inkjet printers can provide better signage for museums and archaeological parks in Central America. The reason we do so many evaluations is because our experience is with advanced digital photography with our 22-megapixel medium format (Phase One from Denmark), our two 48-megapixel BetterLight systems (from Silicon Valley area of California) and our 80-megapixel Cruse digital reprographic system (from Germany). 

Once we have the images from these high-quality digital capture devices, we seek to understand which wide-format printers are best to reproduce the quality we capture in the cameras. FLAAR also has two CreoScitex EverSmart flatbed scanners (now Kodak branded). So our evaluations and reviews of wide-format printers are dedicated to learning what's the best technology and ink chemistry. We publish these results in order to bring in research funding for our various projects.

Other staff members include co-operative education students.  In order to provide students experience in the real world, FLAAR hires students from local universities. Most of these students stay with FLAAR for between two and six years.

Flor Setina, FLAAR Mesoamerica
Eduardo Sacayon, Staff FLAAR Mesoamerica
Eduardo Sacayon (Biologist, Director of digital photography programs and field projects). Eduardo has been working since 2002.

Luis Sacayon, FLAAR Mesoamerica
Jacqueline Najera, FLAAR Mesoamerica

Marian Tager, Staff FLAAR Mesoamerica
Jose Melgar, FLAAR Mesoamerica

Silvia Herrera, FLAAR Mesoamerica
Ana Cristina Guirola, Staff FLAAR Mesoamerica

Pablo Marinez , Staff FLAAR Mesoamerica
Diana Zea, staff FLAAR Mesoamerica

Jaime Leonardo, Staff FLAAR Mesoamerica

Enner Escobedo, Staff FLAAR Mesoamerica
Cindy Contreras, Staff FLAAR Mesoamerica

Sonja Shea, staff FLAAR
Jaime Leonardo, ArtExpo '09 in New York (giclee and fine art photography event).

Spuhl Virtu RS 35/48 printer evaluations

Tina Košir, 3D scanning of archaeological sculpture and artifacts.

Maya Vases, La Ruta Maya conservation foundation Mimaki JF-1631 printer evaluations

Matan Barak printer reviews Gandinnovations printer evaluations

 
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