FREE RANGE Mentorship Award 2023

FREE RANGE Mentorship Award 2023

Metro Imaging has for many years collaborated with the FREE RANGE Graduate showcase at Truman Brewery and this year we return with two Graduate Mentorship Awards.

Metro Imaging established it’s mentorship programme in 2005, the platform has delivered hundreds of bespoke mentoring opportunities via academic and non-academic pathways. Mentees are supported as they make the next steps with practical in studio experiential learning; access to some of the UK’s top technicians and printers; introductions to industry professionals; as well as support in Social Media and Professional Development. The scheme is widely recognized as a meaningful and impactful support network for emerging talent.

Metro is proud to announce that this years winners are Jade Weir from University of Central Lancashire and Tiago Valeiro from University of Porstmouth. Both students were selected from a judging panel that toured this year’s showcases and very much look forward to welcoming them onto the platform .

You can find out more about our students services including the mentorship here, as well as our extensive range of student discounts and services. We also offer lab tours and deliver extensive PPD institution workshops and lectures. Why not drop us an email or if you are in London, make an appointment and come by to see us at the lab.

Upper images ©JadeWeir2023 Lower images ©TiagoValeiro2023

Jade Weir 2 Jade Weir 1 Tiago Valeiro 1

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.