Lab in Paris?

[Onestepbeyond70]

I just moved to Paris, and im looking for a good lab for fine art prints.
I found one but the minimum size they print is 40x60 cm...anyone from Paris here?

[Joanna Carter]

Might I suggest you ask in the French forums as well?

http://www.galerie-photo.info/forum/

[Emmanuel BIGLER]

Hello from France

There has been a discussion on http://www.galerie-photo.info about creating a list of French labs where people can have large format film processed.
Labs still doing large format film processing, with a focus of labs still doing E6 large format slides, are less and less easy to find like everywhere else in the world. ; but when you find a good lab doing E-6 in 4x5", fine-art printing facilities are not far away.
And Paris in France is of course one of the best places, but not the only one, hopefully.

The life of fine art photo labs in France is regularly covered by the French magazine "le Photographe".
In the last issue of Jan. 2009, there are interviews of a couple of people doing fine art printing in Paris.
So you'll easily fond the information... if you can read a minimum of French ;)

The discussion about creating a list of labs doing LF processing is here
http://www.galerie-photo.info/forum/read.php?f=3&i=25797&t=25607#reply_25797
http://www.galerie-photo.com/traitement-film-photo-argentique-les-resultats.htm

And a data sheet with the feedback of galerie-photo readers about their favourite lab (mostly in France). The list in pdf is downloadable here
http://www.galerie-photo.com/resultat-formulaire-laboratoire.pdf
The idea is to update this pdf list regularly as a cooprative work of the French LF community.

The future is still unclear for large format E6 slide pocessing, but fine-art printing will not vanish so easily.
For example in my remote town of Besançon there is a one-man-lab that was doing E6 in 4x5" and 8x10" for a specific client almost on a daily basis. The client probably switched to digital, the lab immediately stopped all chemistry & wet things, but still continues with large format professional inkjet printing.

[Onestepbeyond70]

Thanks, i was not aware of that forum. I guess ill need to learn french.
E6 processing for LF is not a problem, negatifeplus does it.
But i went there to ask information about printing, and they do not
print on size smaller than 40x60 (giclee print), they do not print with white borders,
they do not take tiff files, they do not print on matt paper, they do not take onlne orders, they do not print on square format....they do not speak english...
i went to FNAC to look for a printer...

[bob carnie]

Picto in Paris has a good reputation

[Emmanuel BIGLER]

The above list in pdf features 11 different labs in Paris, actually used by members of the galerie-photo forum.
So you have the choice !

Moreover this list will be an incentive to visit Paris by all means of transportation, bus, metro, bicycle and.. on foot ! yes you can cover quite large distances in Paris on foot ;)
and doing so, you'll certainly find nice & unexpected photographic subjects !
Good luck and have a good time in Paris !

[r.e.]

You might want to check on the status of Imaginoir. It looks like it has closed, but perhaps the principals, Didier Leger and Jean-Yves Bregand, have reogranized or surfaced elsewhere. The lab held a sale of photographs last year to raise money to keep operating, and it had a show as recently as last May:

http://www.photographie.com/?evtid=112338
http://jmmilliere.free.fr/Grains2/images/Patchwork3_invitation.pdf

You will not find better printers anywhere. Clients included Sebastiao Selgado and Peter Lindbergh.

Emmanuel, if you happen to know what Didier and Jean-Yves are doing, I'd very much appreciate a pm.