FORMAT17 Portfolio Reviews

Metro is once again thrilled to be supporting FORMAT17 Portfolio Reviews taking place at the upcoming FORMAT Festival in March. The review hosts the UK’s largest gathering of professional photography experts offering help and advice to over 80 Photographers. Aimed at committed photographers with a developed and serious approach to their work including recent graduates the reviews offer a unique opportunity to have work critiqued from a selection of almost 50 industry experts including Art Directors, Picture Editors, Curators, Photographers and gallery owners.

Along with a host of other prizes Metro is providing The Metro Imaging Award which is open to everyone booked at the Review and judged by the reviewers or chosen judges. Our prize consists of x1 hour consultation with one of our Master Printers, learning about profiling and preparation of work for a fine art finish. The winner will have the opportunity to discuss the desired finish for their prints and receive set of 12 x 12”x8” C-type Matt/gloss portfolio prints, produced after the session.Established in 2004 FORMAT Festival is now one of the UK’s leading international contemporary festivals of photography and related media. Taking place biennially FORMAT organises a year round programme of international commissions, open calls, residencies, conferences and collaborations in the UK and Internationally – the 2015 festival welcomed over 100,000 visitors from all over the world.

Since its inception each major festival adopts a core theme around which it is curated together with the core structure. This year’s festival theme is ‘Habitat’ through varied narratives and imagery that document the worlds around us. We will share the experiences and stories that coalesce as we negotiate our complex existence, including the flora, fauna, landscapes and the lives within.

FORMAT 17 takes place in various locations around Derby between 24th March – 23rd April 2017

Portfolio Reviews
The Roundhouse, Roundhouse Rd, Pride Park, Derby, DE24 8JE

Saturday 25 March 2017: 9.30am – 4.00pm
For full details about the Portfolio Reviews and to book

For more information about the FORMAT Festival 2017

Images ©
From the exhibition ‘Ahead still lies the Future’:

Part I: Redo © Sadie Wechsler

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.