Scott Mead: Above the Clouds

An exhibition in support of Great Ormond Street Hospital

Metro is delighted to be supporting Scott Mead, a London-based American photographer and philanthropist producing Fujiflex C-Type prints for his upcoming exhibition Above The Clouds, which opens at Hamiltons this month.

Above the Clouds is a portfolio of images taken on regularly scheduled flights over several years, when during these journeys, Mead has been inspired as he gazed out the window at the endless horizon, finding that the journey itself can be more meaningful than just a means to a destination.

Mead’s photographic career can be seen as an expression of a deeply-lived life of exploration, reflection and discovery. In this most recent body of work Mead captures the physical, emotional and philosophical wonder of air travel with his images of the world above the clouds.

Much time and research was involved for Mead to learn how to best capture images that fully reflected the outer and inner journey. Analysing flight paths, the angle of the sun, the curvature of the earth, the windows and the speed of light, among other factors, Mead gradually began to develop an intuition as to what might come next throughout the journey.

All profits from print sales and a book of the same title, which has been published to accompany the series and exhibition, are donated to Great Ormond Street Children’s Charity in London, where one of Mead’s children was cured of a life-threatening illness many years ago. Since then Mead has been a deeply involved supporter of the hospital.

Hamiltons, 13 Carlos Place, London, W1K 2EU

Exhibition dates: 9th – 19^th January 2018

Opening times: Monday – Friday 10am – 6pm; Saturday 11am – 4pm

Follow Scott Mead on Instagram & twitter

Images © Scott Mead

1. JFK–LHR 11/10/2015, 08:14:20, Pastel Morning, New York Departure

2. LIM–CUZ 8/10/2016, 23:01:32, The Andes fading into misty sunset

3. JFK–LHR 31/10/2016, 11:32:05, Clouds over Massachusetts

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.