Tom Sheehan’s British Rock Photography at Borough Market

British legendary rock photographer, Tom Sheehan has collaborated with restaurant roast in Borough Market to show a bespoke selection of his images, depicting iconic British musicians from his archive, spanning over forty years as a celebrated freelance photographer in the music business.

While continuing to photograph bands, he has recently published four deluxe editions of some of his favourite subjects: Paul Weller, The Cure, Manic Street Preachers, and REM, with further volumes to be announced.

Metro were thrilled to produce all prints and frames for the exhibition, working directly with Tom. The 20″ x 16″ photographs are printed on Harman GDS fibre-based Baryta paper, which has a gloss finish and slight texture; and the emulsion is based on a traditional Black and White silver halide technology with excellent D-Max, sharpness and surface finish. The prints have been mounted in Bespoke Classic Frames by our Finishing team.

All the prints on display are for sale and can be requested in different sizes. Contact the artist to purchase your own piece of rock history.

Exhibition Details:

From 13 May 2019

roast at The Floral Hall, Borough Market

IMAGES:

1. Photographer Tom Sheehan at the exhibition opening in roast restaurant, Borough Market

2. Tom Sheehan signing David Bowie, Press Conference, London, 1987 and Johnny Rotten Sex Pistols, John Lydon, 1979 large-scale prints at Metro Imaging Labs.

3. Tom Sheehan David Bowie and Primal Scream prints hanging on roast restaurant walls for the exhibition.

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.

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.