Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020

The highly anticipated 2020 edition of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize opened at The Photographers’ Gallery this month. Founded in 1996 by the gallery, and now in its twenty-fourth year, the prize has become one of the most prestigious international arts awards, and has launched and established the careers of many photographers over the years.

This year’s show was curated by TPG’s Anna Dannemann, bringing together the four projects from shortlisted artists Mohamed Bourouissa, Anton Kusters, Mark Neville, and Clare Strand.

Presented over the 4th and 5th floors of the gallery, the DBPFP20 exhibition comprises four distinct artist rooms, offering each project a self-contained space for visitors to engage with the works in depth, highlighting the diverse and innovative nature of their individual practices. The exhibition also encourages consideration of the projects in dialogue to get a sense of the shared artistic, social, and political issues influencing contemporary photography more widely.

Continuing our long-standing relationship with artist Mark Neville, Metro Imaging was delighted to work with him in producing archival c-type prints and bespoke wooden box frames to showcase his DBPFP shortlisted series Parade, situated on the 5th floor and featuring 21 prints.

In 2016, commissioned by the GwinZegal Centre of Art, Neville began taking photographs in Guingamp, Brittany (“little Britain”), starting on the day the UK voted to leave the European Union. Over three years he produced a complex, multi-layered portrait of this tight-knit provincial farming region, documenting different agribusinesses in the community – from small holdings to large industries. Neville has captured the multitude of relationships the Guingamp community holds with animals, conveying everything from horse whispering, to rehabilitation, to farming for animal consumption.

Parade’s resulting photobook is now accompanied by a publication of essays (Parade Texts) written by Brittany farmers, articulating the need for a sustainable, humane, even ecotopian type of agriculture. The essay publication will be available for free at the exhibition, and has also been sent out to UK and European ministries of agriculture and food, as well as key policy makers, calling for the urgent adoption of more ecological methods of farming.

The exhibition will run at The Photographers’ Gallery from 21 February until 7 June 2020, then tour to the Deutsche Börse headquarters in Eschborn/Frankfurt on 26 June 2020 until 27 September 2020.

Images ©

1. Parade #7, 2019 © Mark Neville.
2. Installation shot of Parade #7 2019 © Mark Neville, at The Photographers’ Gallery, London 2020
3. The Discrete Channel with Noise: Information Source #3 (2017 – 2018) © Clare Strand.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.