With reference to my last post on print sizes for the exhibition, some of you may be thinking why we need to go to A3 size, surely A4 would be enough?
If you have a piece of A4 paper imagine an image of yours on that paper with a 10mm white border all around it. Then imagine people standing 6 feet away from it – they’re not going to see much. Double that size of paper to A3, and you’re about at the minimum for exhibition work.
The next big question is going to be the presentation of the images. Of course the ideal scenario would be the images mounted in mattes and in frames, but that will cost – a lot. Cheap frames will look like they are and will downgrade the quality of your pictures. Good quality frames cost. Of course if you want to go down the frame route then that is up to you. I wish you and your wallet well.
I went to see an exhibition in a gallery a few months ago, and the photographers there were displaying their prints with the aid of the old fashioned ‘bulldog clips’.
The clips are fastened to the mounting board with a drawing pin or tack through the hole on the handle.
The photographs were not mounted (in fact, as they were being sold they printed another one off a huge printer sitting in the corner), they were placed in the clips and suspended on the board from them.
Clips
This seemed to me to be a good way to do an exhibition cheaply.
Picture and clips
However if you wanted to mount your images say on 2mm archival card to make the images more robust, the printspace can do that when you order for a cost per A3 print of about £7.00. This would put the cost of each A3 print up to about £16.00 -£17.00 each. That seems a litle prohibitive. Not too bad if you’re only doing 2 prints for the exhibition, but if we don’t get the all the members interested then you could be looking at £85.00 for five prints.
There is another way to perhaps to do cheaper backing for the prints if we want to .
5mm foam board – currently £12.00 for 5 pieces of A3 white. that works out to £2.40 per image – a third of the cost.
For A3 size 1.5mm mountboard pack of 10 from an art supplier, it is £10.25 – that’s only 1.03 per image. With some spray adhesive it could be the way to go.
If you have any ideas let’s hear them.
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