End of year show

My uni's end of year show is coming up and I've chosen to put four of my 9x9" lith prints on 12x16" paper on display. The only darkroom prints in a maelstrom of inkjets! How should I present my prints? What is the professional way of mounting up darkroom prints, especially of this size and format? It'd be nice to sell a few perhaps.

Congrats on the show.

I will have a print in an upcoming Museum show.

My print is 14x14 on 16x20. I had it matted in a beautiful 8 ply 20x24 matte.

Where's your show Jarvaman, I'm back in the UK soon and may be visiting my niece, she plays hockey for Cardiff

Ian

Jarvman said:

My uni's end of year show is coming up and I've chosen to put four of my 9x9" lith prints on 12x16" paper on display. The only darkroom prints in a maelstrom of inkjets! How should I present my prints? What is the professional way of mounting up darkroom prints, especially of this size and format? It'd be nice to sell a few perhaps.

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I went to a show recently exhibiting student work and the quality was badly let down by the presentation of the prints. Photographs in cheap plastic clip frames, prints with masking tape (this was obviously art ) and poor presentation.

It doesn't cost much to present your work professionally. Either pay for a framer to mount your prints with an overlay. He can help you choose the most appropriate colour for your mat overlay. Or buy some cheap frames from fastframes.co.uk ...Nielson frames.

Price your work accordingly...No £25 prints!

It's in Bridgend Ian, not far outside of Cardiff. The photography show is on the 11-13th of June but then they move it and put on a whole art and design show for the rest of the college after that. I've heard much mention of mattes on here. How does this differ from a window mount? Would I have a matte surrounded by a frame? What would be a nice size border for a 9x9" print? Nah, I'm not selling these off for nothing, not time time they were under the dev for!

This is the d*****l test shot of one of my four, taken in the studio last friday for our set design module. The proper one was taken with a C330S with 135mm lens. I'll understand if it's torn down

Whey, it all went up today! It's looking rather lovely if I say so myself. My four lith prints are the only darkroom prints in the whole exhibit, the rest are inkjets. Bearing the heavy burden of years of analogue tradition all alone. It's nice to see it up. I've never had work on display before.

Congratulations Jarvman - I too had my first prints up at the end of my first year at Uni recently - only darkroom prints too - they beat the s**t out of the inkjets even though I say it myself.
As I use medium format I'm interested in what was your eventual choice on mounting/ sizes etc?
Looks interesting work you do there too, nice one.

- Tony

Cheers Tony. My tutor recommended a framing shop in Grangetown in Cardiff so I went there. They were really helpful and showed us through a bunch of different mounts and frames. Eventually went for the slightly offwhite mount, 2 inches around each side and 2 and a half inches at the bottom, then framed within a medium sized charcoal frame, not quite black with non-reflective glass in front. Looked at the museum glass and dribbled, but you know how rediculous that costs. They offered to put mirror plates on for me but I said no, bad mistake. I had to put them on today and mauled the back of the frames They were £20 each, so a really good buy.

Just had a look at your gallery, your still-life stuff is really nice like the clock and the flower. Mine were taken with a mamiya c330s like yours too.

Cheers Jarvman - useful info.
And there's just something about them c330s....
Enjoy your summer break.

- Tony