2020 Collective: Adrift at Safehouse

This summer, 11 members of 2020 Collective will showcase a collection of work, entitled ‘Adrift’, at Safehouse, Peckham.

The 2020 Collective are a group of twenty photographers and artists, graduating this year from London College of Communication [University of the Arts London] who create and collaborate internationally. Some of their most recent work was shown at Three Men Make a Tiger, the LCC BA Photography Degree Show and festival hosted online threemenmakeatiger.co.uk.

Metro Imaging are delighted to be supporting this new exhibition and work with the artists involved to produce a selection of printed artworks, including new works on Black and White silver gelatin papers.

The line-up of artists involved is; Tami Aftab · Tino Chiwariro · Tom Skinner · Rachel Gordon · Lily Boyle · Maite de Orbe · Byron Chambers · Phoebe Somerfield Peter Stewart-Sykes · Holly de Looze · Wojciech Fec

Don’t worry if you can’t make it to the physical exhibition, as 2020 collective are in residence on Metro’s Instagram account all this week (14-18 June) showcasing the artworks and bringing us behind the scenes as they launch the show. Check it out here.

Location:

Safehouse 1, SE15 2SN 17-19 July 2020.

Opening:

Fri 17th & Sat 18th: 10am – 5pm

Sun 19th : 10am – 4pm

Health & Safety:

All are welcome at any time during the opening hours, but please note social distancing measures will be in place. Aim to arrive in smaller groups. There is an outdoor seating area at the venue, where a limited number of visitors will be able to wait should the exhibition become busier. Face masks must be worn and hand sanitiser will be available.

We offer the following types of printing

Partial photo of a face covered in hundres and thousands printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper which is available in both gloss and a semi matt finish.

C Type Professional Photo Printing

We have been printing the highest quality C-Type prints for decades and digital C-Types produced on our Lambda have the archival and tonal benefits of traditional photographic papers, with the advantages of digital photo printing. C-Types are a conventional photographic print from a digital file, and as such is the most suitable option when printing a colour photograph.

Printing linking you through to our giclee printing service.

Fine Art Giclée Printing

We have Hahnemuhle and Canson Giclée Certified Studio staus and with over 30 years experience in photographic printing we use the most advanced inkjet technologies. Giclée is a gallery-quality inkjet print onto fine art watercolour paper. This is most suitable for art illustrations, but can also be used for colour and B&W photographs.

This a picture take of a very large black and white ilford fibre based print of two people.

Black & White Printing

We have worked in collaboration with Harman Technology to develop genuine B&W silver gelatin Fibre-Based and Resin-Coated photographic prints from digital files. The Resin-Coated is suitable for most types of B&W printing, and Fibre-Based is ideal for exhibition quality.

Picture of a Duratran. Duratrans are a real chromogenic print on translucent material and are then mounted on lightboxes.

Duratran Printing

We produce Duratrans at a quality level unmatched by anything else out there. Duratrans have to be lit from behind, so need to be mounted in a rear lit display, or we can produce led lightboxes, which are conventional photo frames containing the Duratran and led panel.

Metro called it Direct to Media. Essentially this is a UV printing machine that can produce very large, up to 3m x 2m prints on any flat material less than 10cm thick. So we can print on wood, metal, slate and pretty much anything you can think of.

Direct to Media Printing

Direct to media printing is exactly that; we print your image directly to a substrate of your choice. Be it paper, card, aluminium, Perspex, canvas, wood, slate… Our Jetrix UV inkjet flatbed printer can print on any flat surface up to 3m x 2m, less than 10cm thick. To ensure your material is suitable, we can print test prints around A4 in size.

This is a print on adhesive vinyl. The vinyl is on a roll and 1.2m wide, but it can printed in multiple pieces in order to cover a wall.

Vinyl Printing

Vinyl Phototex is chosen for its high-quality Giclée finish as well as its ease of application to wall or mounting material due to its self-adhesive properties. We can print on vinyl using our direct to media printer, in strips of 1.5m x 3m and these can be applied to the wall in the fashion of wallpaper to cover a complete wall or interior.