Xposure recognises the significance of high-quality printing and framing in enhancing the presentation and impact of photographs. The festival uses state-of-the-art technology and premium materials to produce exceptional prints. By closely monitoring the printing process, Xposure ensures that the prints accurately represent the artistic vision of the photographers, capturing fine details, colours, and tonal ranges.
When it comes to framing, Xposure understands the transformative effect of the right frame on a photograph’s visual appeal and storytelling. The festival works with skilled framers who specialise in custom framing, creating bespoke solutions tailored to each artwork. They consider factors such as the photograph’s style, dimensions, and aesthetic goals to select appropriate frames that complement and elevate the image.
Xposure maintains its commitment to excellence by having its dedicated laboratory equipped with specialised facilities. The laboratory includes a wood shop where carpenters create custom frames for the exhibited photographs, selecting materials and assembling frames to be sturdy and precise.
Moreover, Xposure’s laboratory houses a state-of-the-art print lab with high-quality printers calibrated to accurately reproduce colours, tones, and details. Through advanced technology and meticulous colour management, the lab ensures that prints maintain the artistic integrity and vision of the photographers.
The glazing and framing room in the laboratory is dedicated to the final stages of the exhibition process. Trained technicians expertly handle the prints, and applying protective glazing to preserve the artwork and enhance its visual impact. They dry mount mount the prints within the custom frames, ensuring a precise fit and professional finish.
By maintaining full control over the printing, glazing, and framing processes, Xposure achieves consistent and exceptional results for every exhibited image. The festival’s dedicated laboratory showcases its commitment to presenting images of the highest quality, enabling photographers to share their work in its most compelling and impactful form.
The Xposure print lab incorporates advanced technology and equipment to ensure the highest quality prints. Collaborating with industry-leading brands, the lab utilises cutting-edge tools and software for accurate colour reproduction and precise image rendering.
To maintain colour accuracy and consistency, the lab utilises solutions from X-Rite and Color Think Pro, enabling precise colour calibration and profiling. By carefully calibrating monitors, printers, and devices, the lab achieves accurate and consistent colour reproduction throughout the printing process.
The lab utilises Epson printers with PrecisionCore printhead technology, renowned for exceptional image quality, sharpness, and colour vibrancy. PrecisionCore heads provide high-resolution printing with fine detail and smooth gradations, resulting in stunning prints that capture the essence of the original photographs.
With the combination of Epson printers and PrecisionCore technology, the Xposure lab produces prints with remarkable accuracy, sharpness, and colour fidelity. Advanced inkjet technology ensures precise ink placement and optimal colour blending, faithfully reproducing the photographer’s vision.
In addition to leveraging advanced technology, the Xposure print lab creates custom profiles for each type of fine art paper offered and for each printer used. This meticulous process involves calibrating printer settings and colour profiles to achieve the best output on each specific paper type.
Custom profiles fine-tune the printing process, maximising the potential of each paper and printer combination. This attention to detail allows for precise colour reproduction, tonal range, and texture reproduction, showcasing the full beauty and characteristics of the chosen fine art paper.
By creating custom profiles, the lab achieves consistent and accurate results, regardless of the materials used. Photographers can select from a variety of fine art papers, knowing that each one will be meticulously profiled to produce exceptional prints.
Investing in the creation of custom profiles reflects Xposure’s commitment to providing photographers with the highest level of quality and customisation. This dedication further enhances the overall experience for artists and viewers, elevating the presentation of photography at the Xposure International Photography & Film Festival.
Xposure is committed to environmental sustainability and responsible practices. The wood shops at Xposure exclusively use FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified sustainable wood for framing photographs. The FSC certification ensures that the wood comes from responsibly managed forests, supporting biodiversity and respecting the rights and welfare of local communities and workers.
Using FSC certified wood aligns with Xposure’s dedication to presenting photography at its best in an environmentally conscious manner. By incorporating sustainable practices into every aspect of the exhibition process, Xposure sets an example for the industry and encourages responsible choices that contribute to the long-term well-being of our planet.
Through its state-of-the-art labs, skilled craftsmanship, use of advanced technology, and commitment to sustainability, Xposure ensures that the presentation of exhibited photographs is visually captivating, artistically faithful, and environmentally responsible. This commitment adds another layer of significance to the overall experience for artists and viewers, reflecting Xposure’s dedication to making a positive impact through the Xposure International Photography & Film Festival.
We produce exhibitions for all our guest photographers applying the highest standards in production, from the selection of papers, moulding, glazing through to hanging. By working closely with our photographers, we are able to showcase their work at a world-class level.
Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315gsm is a pure cotton paper with an inkjet coating that has been perfectly optimised for the needs of FineArt applications. The natural white paper comes in a pleasant, warm shade of white and contains no optical brighteners. The exquisite surface texture gives the paper a lovely, delicate feel while at the same time lending it an artistic note. In combination with the high-gloss premium inkjet coating, it produces stunning print results with outstanding reproduction of colour and detail, deep blacks and perfect contrasts. The barium sulphate in the coating makes Photo Rag® Baryta a popular alternative to analogue baryta paper. The combination of the cotton artist paper and the high-gloss inkjet coating lends FineArt prints a striking character with a beautiful, elegant sheen, without glare. Photo Rag® Baryta is acid- and lignin-free and meets the most exacting requirements in terms of age resistance.
Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Satin is an exceptional highlight to the Photo Rag® range and lends FineArt prints a highly individual character. The white cotton paper features the classic Photo Rag® surface with a delicate felt structure and a beautifully soft feel. In combination with the satin-gloss premium inkjet coating, it produces outstanding prints with a beautiful sense of depth and three-dimensional quality. Colours and details are perfectly reproduced, the depth of the black truly stands out and contrasts are reproduced with stunning effect. Photo Rag® Satin is characterised by its very unique coating. The printed areas have a soft sheen, while the unprinted areas remain matt to beautifully accentuate brilliance. Photo Rag® Satin is acid- and lignin-free which meet the most exacting requirements in terms of age resistance.
Hahnemühle Photo Rag® 308gsm is one of the world’s most popular papers and the valued all-rounder for high-quality FineArt inkjet printing. The white cotton artist’s paper, with its characteristic, wonderfully soft feel, boasts a lightly defined felt structure, lending each artwork a three-dimensional appearance and impressive pictorial depth. Combined with the matt premium inkjet coating, this paper produces outstanding prints that feature brilliant colours, deep blacks, striking contrasts and perfect reproduction of detail. This acid- and lignin-free classic meets the most exacting requirements for age resistance and is specially designed for FineArt applications. Whether it is used for FineArt photography or art reproductions, the ideal combination of structure, print quality and weight makes Photo Rag® one of the most versatile FineArt inkjet papers.
Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Ultra Smooth 305gsm, another addition to the Photo Rag® family, is an especially smooth and silky soft paper for high-quality FineArt inkjet printing. The white cotton art paper has a discreet, very finely textured surface with a strikingly silky feel. The matt premium inkjet coating guarantees extraordinary print results with impressive reproduction of colour, detail and very deep black. Photo Rag® Ultra Smooth is versatile and produces impressive results for FineArt photography as well as art reproductions. The acid- and lignin-free all-rounder meets the most exacting requirements in terms of age resistance and is perfect for high-quality black and white FineArt prints.
Hahnemühle William Turner® 310gsm With its matt watercolour texture this paper is a genuine mould-made paper in both look and feel. William Turner is ideal for reproductions of traditional artworks and also for striking and expressive photo reproductions. The paper itself feels great, it is thick and the textured matte surface helps to make the paper feel substantial. Print quality is very good. Black and white prints are neutral and the blacks are very black. Colour prints are very vibrant with no bleeding whatsoever. Not only are the colours and tones excellent, but detail is great too. In addition to printing fine details well, the William Turner paper’s texture also adds an additional appearance of detail and depth. When you’re looking for a heavily-textured matte paper, you’re going to be hard-pressed to find a better option.
Hahnemühle Museum Etching® 350gsm is a warm white cotton art paper with an inkjet coating specially optimised for FineArt printing. This heavyweight textured paper does not contain optical brighteners and is characterised by its high stability. The finely textured surface with fine felt structure lends FineArt prints added depth and a three-dimensional effect. Combined with the pure cotton base, this creates a wonderfully soft tactile feel and artistic impression. The premium matt inkjet coating produces excellent print results. Colours are wonderfully vivid, the depth of the black truly stands out and details are reproduced perfectly. The acid- and lignin-free Museum Etching meets the most exacting requirements for age resistance and is ideal for reproducing photographs and works of art.
Canson® Infinity Rag Photographique 310 gsm is 100% cotton museum grade white Fine Art and photo paper. The exceptional smooth white tone is achieved during manufacturing by introducing natural minerals to the process. It has been developed to address the need for continued longevity requirements in the Digital Fine Art market. This paper offers a unique extra smooth surface with a sensual feel. It also provides one of the highest achievable Dmax currently available on the market, making it ideal for fine art photography as well as fine art printmaking. Canson Rag Photographique is bright without using optical OBA’s. A lovely, versatile paper that is fast becoming a favourite among many of the worlds leading photographers.
Canson® Infinity Platine Fibre Rag 310 gsm is the combination of the premium 100% cotton Platinum paper that Canson has supplied for many years to the original Platinum and Platine photographic market, with the latest microporous coating, making the traditional darkroom paper now available for your digital printing. Setting the benchmark for Digital Darkroom papers, Canson® Infinity Platine Fibre Rag provides the aesthetic and feel of the original F-Type Baryta Fibre paper, having a true pure white tone without using optical brighteners that are known to affect the longevity of digitally produced images.Canson® Infinity Platine Fibre Rag’s extremely high Dmax and exceptional grey tones make it the product of choice for the more discerning black and white photographic prints.
Canson® Infinity Baryta Prestige 340 gsm is comprised of an acid-free alpha-cellulose and cotton white paper base with a true barium sulphate coating. It is a smooth Baryta Gloss paper which evokes the look and aesthetic feel of traditional darkroom papers. The paper characteristics are truly unique: providing excellent durability, outstanding black optical density (D-max), and superb image sharpness. The paper offers a good level of flatness, excellent surface homogeneity, very good cuttability, and it’s printed and non-printed surfaces differ only very slightly in glossiness. It offers an extraordinary wide gamut which improves colour reproduction and increases visual impact.
