The War Zone Freelance Exhibition at the Frontline Club

Metro worked recently with the Frontline Club, producing mounted C type prints for their upcoming War Zone Freelance Exhibition (WZF).

The WZF Exhibition provides an exclusive look into the work and world of freelance journalists who cover war and conflicts in the Middle East. It is motivated by the desire to pay tribute and provoke debate on the important role those journalists play in bringing news out of conflict areas to the international public, often with little support, at their own expense and at extremely high risk.

After many years working alongside other freelance colleagues American photojournalist Osie Greenway, Danish writer and reporter Anne Alling, Dutch videographer and photojournalist Jeffry Ruigendijk and German writer and photojournalist Benjamin Hiller have created an exhibition which pulls people deep into the reporting process, informs the viewer on the people affected by war in the Middle East region and highlights both the struggles and triumphs of working independently in a high-stakes vocation.

The four WZF journalists will also be taking part in a presentation and talk at the club on Thursday 28th January, providing an in-depth look at the curating of the exhibition as well as the ambition behind the project and a Q & A session with the audience.

Additionally on Friday 29th January a panel discussion will take place on today’s freelancers and the future of the profession. Alongside the WZF journalists will be guest speakers: Benjamin Hiller, German photojournalist and writer; Jean-Paul Marthoz, Committee to Protect Journalists and Vaughan Smith, Frontline Club founder and freelance cameraman.

The Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ

Exhibition Details
Dates: 28th January to February 5th 2016
Opening times: 10:00am – 6:00pm
Entrance to the exhibition is freeEvening Events

Presentation of the War Zone Freelance Exhibition 2016
28th January 2016: 7:00 – 8:30 pm
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Panel discussion about today’s freelancers and the future of the profession
29th January 2016: 7:00 – 8:30pm
Click here to book tickets ** £5 ticket fee is a direct donation to the War Zone Freelance Exhibition.

Images © The War Zone Freelance 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.

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.