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![We may not be able to open our doors and show you around our front of house gallery right now, but we can certainly introduce you to the wonderful artists involved and share with you the work we’ll be exhibiting as part of our 2020 Spring Showcase. Todays artist in the spotlight is Michelle Carolina […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/7Y8A3483-2-1024x683.jpg "Metro Spring Showcase: Michelle Carolina Levie")
![We love showcasing our clients artwork in our front of house gallery, and even through we may not be able to open our doors and show you around right now, we can certainly introduce you to the artists and the work we’ll be exhibiting as part of our 2020 Spring Showcase. Our first artist in […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Lovers_at_the_Soho_House_100dpi.jpeg "Metro Spring Showcase: Carla Borel")
![We may have closed our doors for the moment, but we’re still here to share our support and advice wherever possible. Our mentorship programme leader Prof. Steve Macleod and Marketing Manager Kate O’Neill, are now offering free 30 minute, online portfolio reviews for any visual artists looking for feedback or advice on their work. Whether […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/adi-goldstein-MbVMny2ZXyM-unsplash-1024x683.jpg "Metro’s Free Online Folio Reviews")
![As always, the safety and wellbeing of our clients, partners and staff is priority. With the current climate in mind, and latest health guidelines issued we will now be closing all Metro Imaging premises from today, Monday March 23rd, until further notice. We are continuing to monitor all Government instructions relating to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/FullSizeRender1-745x1024.jpg "COVID-19: Customer Info + Guidance")
![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 […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Parade-15-Mark-Neville-2019-copy_1-1024x830.jpg "Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020")
![For their first major exhibition of 2020, Barbican Centre brings us Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, a group exhibition exploring the experiences of masculinity, its performance, and its social construction documented through photography and film from the 1960’s through to the present day. Bringing together 300 works by over 50 pioneering international artists, the show features […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Gupta-Christopher-Street-1024x691.jpg "Masculinities: Liberation through Photography at Barbican Centre")
![This February we are pleased to be supporting Shado, a publication amplifying the voices of those at the frontline change, on their collaborative exhibition ‘Build Love, Break Walls’ in celebration of LGBTQI+ history month. The magazine is taking up residency in Bermondsey Project Space for two weeks, where their theme will focus specifically on the […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/d8e867cc-1ce6-4ce2-8378-393bb205a853-770x1020-1.jpg "Shado: Build Love, Break Walls.")
![Auto Italia brings ‘Hot Moment’, a new exhibition curated by Radclyffe Hall featuring artists Tessa Boffin, Ingrid Pollard, Jill Posener. ‘Hot Moment’ examines photographic representations that emerge from the threshold of intimacy and public life in the 1980s and 90s. The exhibition presents the work of these three photographers for whom lesbian identity was never a […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Jill-Posener_Join-Lesbians-1024x731.png "‘Hot Moment’ featuring Tessa Boffin, Ingrid Pollard, Jill Posener")
![With over 100 galleries and thousands of artists set to exhibit at this years London Art Fair, it promises to be as dynamic, inspiring and engaging as ever. To help you navigate the maze of exhibitions we’ve put together a little snapshot of some the work, events and galleries not to be missed at this […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Webp.net-gifmaker-4.gif "London Art Fair 2020: Don’t Miss")
![2020 is a very special year for us at Metro Imaging, as it’s our 40th Anniversary! Founded by Ben Richardson and his best friend from school, Mike Trevillion, Metro began as a two-man operation, providing black and white printing back in 1980 from a small establishment in Great Titchfield Street. Great energy and a genuine […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/40_slow-1.gif "Metro Imaging Turns 40!")
![2020 is a big one for recent photography graduate Angela Blažanović. Not only will Blažanović’s work ‘Fragments of A River’ be exhibited as a solo show at the upcoming Free Range Awards, but her work will also be presented as part of Jetsam, a two-person exhibition opening at Sid Motion Gallery this month. The ‘Fragment […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Angela-B_06.red-wire-ball-and-a-salad-leaf.jpg "Angela Blažanović at Sid Motion Gallery")
![The Free Range Awards are back presenting another stellar collection of solo shows by three visual artists practising a multitude of disciplines: Angela Blažanović, Christoph Jones, and Jennifer Forward-Hayter. Selected from the 2019 summer graduate shows, the three exhibitions explore plastic pollution, immigration politics, and the performative nature of working life, respectively. Each artist will […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/free-range-2020-holidng-01-698x1024.jpg "Free Range Awards 2020")
![The Rebecca Vassie Trust today announces the fourth annual Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award for emerging photographers, including a bursary worth £3,000. The award, which funds an early-career photographer in the UK to undertake a narrative photography project, includes £2000 cash prize along with a £1,000-worth of premier printing at Metro Imaging plus support towards industry […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/AwardPoster2020-Original-Image-Ebola-screening-Entebbe-Airport-Uganda-2014-by-Rebecca-Vassie-1024x724.jpg "SUBMISSIONS OPEN: Rebecca Vassie Trust 2020")
![This Autumn photographers worldwide, professional or amateur, were invited by YOUMANITY to reach out to family and friends, to take a celebratory portrait or an image encapsulating the meaning of friendship. From over four thousand photographic entries from 57 different countries 16 entries were chosen by the judges, here we showcase the top three: WINNING […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-13-at-11.19.50-1024x684.png "Youmanity: Friend-Ship Photography Award")
![The newly established gallery Maison Touchard has launched this winter with its inaugural exhibition, Housewarming. This dynamic group showcase features the work of Jemma Appleby, Alice Bucknell, Vanessa Dziuba, Shawn Maximo, Lindsey Mendick, and Camille Yvert. Marking the launch of Maison Touchard, a project space set in an East London council flat, Housewarming explores the dichotomy between […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-09-at-16.37.23-1024x1014.png "HOUSEWARMING x Maison Touchard")
![This winter the exciting art space Elephant West welcomes visual artist Eleanoir Macnair and her delightful on-going body of work, Photographs Rendered in Play-Doh. Her project aims to highlight obscure images by overlooked photographers, or contemporary projects which lack exposure, as well as creating some of the most-known photographic works. We were delighted to work […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/low-EW_EM_09.jpg "Surrealists Rendered in Play-Doh by Eleanor Macnair")
![This month sees the opening of ‘Icebreaker Dreaming’ with an outdoor projection of a frozen arctic sea animating the exterior wall of Pushkin House on Bloomsbury Square on the opening night. This is a new solo exhibition by the artist Ruth Maclennan. The exhibition explores the Russian Arctic, as a place to live in, to […]](https://metroimaging.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/choirbeach-1024x683.jpg "Icebreaker Dreaming by Ruth Maclennan")
I’m chatting to @NatashaCaruana about being in a collective on @WorkShowGrow insta at 6pm grab a beer and come and join us
"Focus, focus, focus ... when you have so many different things going on, it is important to focus of what is most important." - Highlighting our #SpringShowcase artists online, today we discuss printing on pineapple paper with #MichelleCarolinaLevei - https://bit.ly/2Jhead7
3We are LOVING this!! #NatureDrawingClub
It's time for #NatureDrawingClub! Show us and @NHM_London what you can see in your garden this #BreakfastBirdwatch through the medium of art - we've even got some backgrounds here to get you started! ☕🐦🎨
This week's that our #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites theme is #happiness. We want to see your shots that make you smile and that you think will make others smile too.
