I am going to be starting a project in a few months that will end up in exhibitions and sales of prints 50X40" in size.
I went up to my regular framer today to have a chat with him about it and discovered that the framing side of things is not as easy as I thought it might.
Firstly he can't get Matt boards that size, I was planning in a 5" Matt all round, he can't get them and he couldn't cut them even if he had them. Secondly he thinks that I'm wasting my time putting glass/plastic in the frames, he suggests having the photographs stuck onto MDF (so it won't bend), laminating them and putting them in the frame 'naked'. Is lamination archival even?
Thirdly there is the question of frames. I'm looking for a standard type of gallery frame but it seems a pretty hefty frame is needed to hold that size and weight of finished product.
Now my framer is good, very good, but I think there must be a part of the industry which specialises in larger stuff like this.
Could anyone tell me how they are having their 40X50"+ prints framed and if they know where I should be looking in the UK for this type of service?
Bookmarks