We are always happy to provide you with everything you need for your exhibition – from initial help and advice to a fully mounted and framed series of Giclée or Lambda Prints. We'll even deliver them to your exhibition space and help you hang them. Even if it is just a single service like specialist mounting you require, we're here to help. And of course one of the great advantages of our Exhibition Service is that it's all done in-house, saving you both time and money.

Below are just a few examples of Photographic Exhibitions we have been involved with recently.

 

Chris Jordan - Ushirikiano

The Prix Pictet Commission, awarded by the partners of Pictet & Cie, is an invitation to a photographer selected from the shortlist to undertake a field trip to a region where the Bank is supporting a sustainability project.

For the third Commission, Pictet supported the work of the Tusk Trust, specifically the Nakuprat Conservancy, a new community-led initiative in Northern Kenya.

Shortlisted photographer Chris Jordan, who visited Northern Kenya in July says, “The Prix Pictet Commission prize took me on a thousand-mile behind-the-scenes photo documentary safari in Kenya’s northern rangelands. There I encountered a confederation of NGO’s, working closely with local indigenous tribes to create a sustainable way of life based on principles of environmental stewardship, wildlife conservation, and peace. Throughout our two week expedition across a stunningly wild landscape, I found myself constantly humbled by the grace, dignity and spirit of the ancient tribal people I had the privilege of encountering there. I hope my photographs convey a small fragment of the complex and inspiring story of Ushirikiano that is emerging in this remote part of Africa”.

The show was organised by international cultural consultancy Candlestar, the secretariat to Prix Pictet. The show was exhibited at the Diemar Noble Gallery in central London during October. Genesis produced 30 30x20" prints and one 96x48" print, all mounted on Dibond for the exhibition.

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2010 SJA British Sports Photography Awards

Genesis Imaging are proud to announce being appointed as an official supplier to the prestigious British Sports Photography Awards.

The Sports Journalism Awards, in their 34th year, are organised by the Sports Journalists' Association of Great Britain and sponsored by UK Sport.

Martin Samuel of the Daily Mail was crowned 2010's Sports Writer of the Year and Laurence Griffiths of Getty Images was named Sports Photographer of the Year at a gala dinner in the City of London on March 7, 2011.

Genesis produced nearly 100 beautiful Lambda C-Type Prints, all gloss laminated and mounted on Foamboard specially for the event.

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Kurt Tong: In Case it Rains in Heaven

Traditionally, many Chinese people believe that when a person dies they leave with no earthly possessions. To provide for them in the afterlife, relatives burn paper versions of personal objects including money, cars and even ipods.

Kurt Tong's rich, highly-coloured photographs document the recent development of this tradition. They reflect a continued belief in life after death in China, and the influence of an increasingly westernized society.

The London-based photographer took these pictures on mainland China as well as in Hong Kong; though such practices were largely stamped out in the Mao years, they have since resurged. In 2006, leaders vowed to crack down on excesses after reports that paper prostitutes and packs of Viagra had been found in cemeteries.

Genesis printed all 41 Lambda Prints at 20x16 inches, mounted them on Dibond and finished them with spacer frames, all in-house.

‘In Case it Rains in Heaven’ runs at Compton Verney, Warwickshire until 12 December 2010.

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Edmund Clark's pictures of Guantanamo

Photographer Edmund Clark's latest body of work titled “If the lights go out” is a series of pictures examining the institutional spaces of Guantanamo naval base and the psychological after-effects experienced by detainees.

This is a study of home, of a very particular idea of home at a very particular time in our history, and the lives of people whose paths crossed on 45 square miles of Cuba, cut off from the rest of the world by razor wire and water.

Edmund Clark says: “Rather than attempting to monumentalize the historical fact of the Guantanamo camps, these photographs illustrate three ideas of home: The naval base at Guantanamo, home to the American community and of which the prison camps are just a part; the complex of camps where the detainees have been held, and the homes, new and old, where the former detainees now find themselves trying to rebuild their lives.”

This work builds on Clark’s award-winning reputation as an artist exploring the themes of confinement and incarceration to take the viewer beyond the dehumanised stereotypes of Guantanamo and the ‘War on Terror’ to a deeper and more human insight into the experience of men released without charge after years of incarceration, and the American community living on the U.S. military’s oldest overseas naval base.

Genesis produced over 40 large scale Lambda Prints for the exhibition at Flowers East Gallery. The images are also available in a book published by Dewi Lewis.

Edmund also has a dedicated website for the project ifthelightgoesout.com where a new image is added every day for 31 days together with comment from an ex-detainee, Guantanamo lawyer, medical specialist or journalist. You are welcome to post a comment about the images or the issues.

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Simon Roberts' Election Project

In September the work of the 2010 Election Artist, photographer Simon Roberts, was officially unveiled at an exhibition in the House of Commons. The Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art commissioned Simon in March and his task was to provide an enduring and unique artistic response to the 2010 General Election, whilst at the same time achieving political and geographical balance around the country.

To enable him to do this successfully, special access to the election campaign was arranged. His attention focused on the relationship between the canvassing politicians and the voting public. He recorded not only the three main political parties but also the smaller parties and independent candidates, whilst simultaneously inviting the public to submit their own images of election activity in their area. During the twenty‐four days of canvassing which ensued Simon traversed the UK in a motor home, photographing events with a traditional 5x4 inch plate camera on to film.

In addition to his own series of photographs, Simon encouraged members of the public to get involved with the commission. By using photographs submitted by the general public via digital cameras and mobiles he was attempting to create an alternative vision alongside his own, adding a democratic element to the work in the "hope that my photographs provide not just an antidote to the more stage-managed press photographs which were published during the campaign, but that they also form a historic archive of photograph, which captures the complexity of the UK's social and political landscape in 2010." Simon Roberts. All 1,696 photographs submitted by members of the public form part of the final artwork and can be seen as a 15 metre installation in Portcullis House.

Genesis produced the installation as a single Lambda print 15 metres long, mounted onto Dibond in 5 separate panels.

The exhibition runs until 13th December at Portcullis House. Visitor information is available via the UK Parliament website.

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Roger Hooper's Wild World!

Acclaimed wildlife photographer Roger Hooper has once again captured a series of stunning new images of precious and endangered species for his annual exhibition in association with the WWF.

His 16-day free exhibition will be opened by WWF-UK chief executive David Nussbaumat at London's Oxo Gallery and is expected to be viewed by thousands of people.

Charging elephants, brawling lions and silverback gorillas are just some of the subjects featured in the exhibition which aims to highlight the work of the WWF throughout the world. Roger has included images of a tiger and leopard photographed in British wildlife sancturies as a warning that some animals will soon only be seen in captivity as their natural habitats are destroyed.

Genesis produced over 40 images for the exhibition, printed on our Lambda Print System on both gloss and metallic papers and finished them in a variety of ways from Perspex Face Mounting, mounting on Dibond with a gloss laminate and framing with Mirogard water white glass.

The free exhibition runs from 11th June until 27th June, 2010 at the gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, Southbank, London, SE1. More information about the WWF campaign can be found on the Keep the World Wild website.

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Zoobs at Opera Gallery!

Zoobs is a visual artist working within the realm of fashion, photography, design and art direction.

Having been discovered by Jean-David Malat, director of Opera Gallery London, the photographer continues to create breathtaking iconic images. He travels extensively and incorporates different cultures and their representations into his images. Zoobs is also the co-founder of Freedom From Sorrow platform for raising awareness and funds for worldwide charities aiding children’s welfare. Zoobs lives and works in London. The main body of work that is being showcased is a culmination of his photographic works produced during the past decade.

Genesis are proud to have helped Zoobs with his debut solo exhibition, producing 23 gloss Lambda Prints at 60”x40” and one at a massive 83”x40”, all stunningly finished with Perspex Face Mounting.

The exhibition runs from June 16th 2010 at Opera Gallery London, 134 New Bond Street, London, W1S 2TF.

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The London Festival of Architecture

Genesis is supplying over 350 gloss laminated, A0 size Lambda Prints, mounted on 10mm Foamboard for the upcoming London Festival of Architecture's exhibition titled ‘50 Years of London Architecture 1960-2010’ organised by The Architecture Club at The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1. The exhibition is open from 17th to 27th June.

The London Festival of Architecture will be a city-wide celebration of architecture in the capital. As London gears up for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it looks at ways that planners, architects and local communities play their part in the development of 'The Welcoming City'.

The festival runs from 19th June to 4th July. Full details can be found on the website www.lfa2010.org.

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Sophie Molins new exhibition!

The Impossibility of Escapism

ArtSpace and the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust (RAPt) are delighted to present a new exhibition by award winning artist Sophie Molins.

Showcased in the beautiful atrium of architecturally renovated Westbourne Grove Church (where the homeless and disadvantaged are invited to take shelter), The Impossibility of Escapism explores the written and printed word. Comprising a series of provocative and abstract photographs, taken in some of London’s most notorious prisons and anonymous city spaces, Sophie Molins’ show also includes a collection of unusual found objects that utilise text.

Genesis produced a total of 23, 16"x12" Giclée prints and mounted them all on Spacer Frames specially for the exhibition.

Since 1999 Molins has worked with RAPt, a charity committed to helping people recover from substance misuse and addiction, photographing aspects of the remarkable rehabilitation program they run within prisons across the UK. Many of the images in the ‘Impossibility of Escapism’ depict the signs distributed throughout prisons in an effort to perpetuate a sense of order and conformity. Often unintentionally ironic, they serve to reinforce the blighted situation of the prisoners. For example one photograph, taken in a place where there is no privacy, displays the word ‘Private’ backwards, whilst another illustrates a stark memo explaining the rigorous ‘Procedure for Receiving Flowers’.

Sophie's exhibition runs from 24 February to 30 March 2010, at ArtSpace, Westbourne Grove Church, Westbourne Grove, London W11 2RW.

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Genesis sponsor Shift exhibition!

Genesis sponsored a fantastic exhibition called Shift: Framing a city in constant motion – a group exhibition by four London based architectural photographers, looking at how their city moves.

Victoria Gibbs, Paul Grundy, Murray Scott and Martin Stewart explored the idea of moving through London in new work created specially for the exhibition. From the vast number of possible routes and methods of travel around the capital, each photographer took a small subset to explore in greater depth.

Genesis mounted all 33 images, up to 8' x 4' onto 5mm Foamex – a mounting board that is ideal for photographic exhibitions due to it's ultra light weight and rigidity.

Shift was an accumulation of nine months work and marked the first time these four photographers had exhibited together in central London. Not wanting the recent economic woes get the better of them, the four photographers took the brave step of committing to a self-funding exhibition.

Genesis are in the unique position of offering every photographic printing and finishing service needed for top quality exhibitions. Not only can we expertly print your images using either the Giclée or Lambda systems but we can also professionally mount and frame them too – and it is all in-house!

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Lorenzo Agius’ stunning exhibition!

Photographer Lorenzo Agius who has shot the likes of Tom Cruise, Madonna and Johnny Depp showcased a stunning photography exhibition portraying British fashion and beauty influencers at the charity event '30 Days of Fashion & Beauty Gala Party.'

Genesis have been working closely with Lorenzo to produce 30 large Giclée Prints, all 60"x40" or over and mounted on fashionable Dibond, specially for the exhibition.

The previous year’s event boasted phenomenal success with stars such as Paul McCartney, Stella McCartney and Kate Hudson gracing the red carpets, all eager to show their support. The Gala Party raised an astonishing £42,500 for MacMillan Cancer Support and was voted Party of the Year by Mediaweek.

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Genesis sponsor British Wildlife Photography Awards

Genesis Imaging are proud to announce sponsorship of a brand new international photography competition, the prestigious British Wildlife Photography Awards. The awards celebrate and recognise the talents of photographers of all nationalities practicing in the UK, while at the same time, highlighting the great wealth and diversity of the natural history of the United Kingdom.

With a prize fund of up to £15,000 and the overall winner receiving a cash prize of £5,000, the images receiving judges’ commendations will form part of a series of nationwide exhibitions, including a premier launch and awards event. The exhibition launched at Hoopers Gallery, London from 24th September 2009 and will tour several locations around the UK. The British Wildlife Photography Awards aim to set the standard for photography of UK wildlife, for many years to come.

Genesis will be producing beautiful archival quality Giclée Prints of the winning images and commended entries, printed on their latest 64"wide Epson Stylus Pro 11880 printer onto Fuji inkjet paper. We will also be providing mounting and framing services for BWPA nationwide exhibitions.

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>Rhubarb Rhubarb Bursary winners on show at Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Genesis' Creative Director, Mark Foxwell, was one of the panel of judges for the ‘Hungry’ bursary organised by Rhubarb-Rhubarb, the Birmingham based photography training development agency. Mark was appointed for his expert creative knowledge of fine arts and fine arts printing.

The ‘Hungry’ bursary was created to award emerging, mid career and established photographers with a chance to exhibit their chosen work (with Giclee prints and Lambda prints produced by Genesis Imaging,) a free place at Cultivate or the Rhubarb International Review, and a free place to the Rhubarb International Portfolio promenade. And naturally Genesis provided mounting and framing for the exhibition display at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

The opportunities brought about by this project and supported by the Arts Council England, aim to promote photographers internationally and help continue to develop new work and projects.

The exhibition, curated by Kate Pryor-Williams, ran from 27th June to 29th August at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. The final selection of photographers can be found at the Rhubarb Rhubarb website.

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David Anthony Hall’s Solo Exhibition

Landscape artist David Anthony Hall has teamed up with Genesis Imaging, a group of vendors and suppliers on a charitable work that will be premiered at his first West End solo exhibition. The centre-piece of the exhibition, titled ‘Autumn Light,’ is an enormous 1.5 metre by 2.7 metre long ‘artist’s proof’ face mounted on Acrylic by Genesis Imaging.

“Genesis Imaging were the only company in the UK who could Perspex Face Mount an image this large. I contacted almost every finisher here in London and nationally and no-one other than Genesis were prepared to attempt such a big job. All my photographs in the show are archival prints mounted in acrylic block in sizes up to 3 meters long and I exclusively use Ken and his team at Genesis Imaging simply because their finishing and service are second to none.”

‘Autumn Light,’ Hall’s largest work to date, hints at the direction in which David would like his work to develop in the future. ‘Autumn Light’ is dedicated in the memory of David's natural father, Antonio Senezio, who died of cancer in 2007. The proceeds from the sale of this piece will be donated to Cancer Research UK, Macmillan Cancer Support and East Wing St Bart’s Cancer ward.

David Anthony Hall is a landscape artist who uses a particular panoramic photographic technique to open up a wide space for his audience to explore. There is a suggestion of escapism as well as exploration in David’s work, as if he is creating a window for the viewer and inviting them to climb through. His enveloping vistas often lie somewhere between fantasy and reality; an artistic alchemist, David is able to transform the mundane into the magical and help us look and think about the world in a new way.

His committed and methodical approach to producing his photographs means that he often spends months on each image, revisiting a specific place in order to capture a particular light or atmosphere; he would rather wait another year to re-shoot a location than exhibit an image that he feels is unfinished. He has been exhibited widely and his work is held in numerous private collections in seven countries.

David's exhibition ran from 1st to 14th June 2009 as a solo exhibition and from then until 31st June 2009 as a group show at Thompson’s Gallery in Marylebone, London. More of David's work can be seen on his website.

He has been supported in producing ‘Autumn Light’ by Canon UK, Velmex Distribution, Drytac Europe Ltd and naturally Genesis Imaging – we are always happy to consider sponsoring worthy causes and help charities in any way we can.

Perspex Face Mounting (also known as Reverse Face Mounting and Acrylic Face Mounting) is the process of mounting a photographic print between a sheet of Perspex and a Aluminium or Dibond backing sheet. In this way the image is not only protected against dirt, scratching and premature aging but it can also achieve a floating, three dimensional quality unobtainable by any other process and is one of the most impressive ways of presenting a modern and striking photographic image.

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Obama's People by Nadav Kander

Genesis Imaging produced 53 extra large Giclée prints for a stunning exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery titled “Obama’s People” by Nadav Kander.

To celebrate President Obama’s inauguration, the New York Times teamed up with Nadav Kander to photograph the administration of Barack Obama as it was being assembled. 53 photos later, today’s leading figures of America have been captured in “Obama’s People.”

Nadav Kander is one of the most original and highly regarded photographers of our time, moving across advertising and fine art practices. Living and working in London he is a regular contributor to the New York Times, Rolling Stone Magazine, Dazed and Confused and the Sunday Times Magazine to name but a few.

“Obama’s People” ran until the end of August 2009 at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. More detail can be found at obamaspeopleexhibition.com

And just in case you are wondering, the Giclée prints were printed up to 60" x 50" on Hahnemuhle ultra smooth fine art paper. Find out more about our Giclée prints or our special Photographic Exhibition Service.

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The Grand Tour by Gayle Chong Kwan

“The Grand Tour” is a two-year project in which Gayle Chong Kwan has developed new work to reference, celebrate and critique “The Grand Tour,” and its relationship to contemporary tourism, master planning, waste and landscape traditions within fine art. They are showing in a series of exhibitions throughout the UK and internationaly; at mac, Birmingham; Arts Co, London; Artsway, New Forest, Hampshire and Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy.

Genesis Imaging have been working closely with Gayle to produce a range of both Giclée prints and Lambda prints up to 60" x 82" in size for her exhibition. And naturally we provided photographic mounting and framing services for her as well.

Gayle Chong Kwan is a London-based artist, working with large-format photography, video, sound, installation and performance. Her work is often context specific or involves people in rituals of exchange, such as food or trade, to explore ideas of history, the senses and memory. The personal and global politics of food and tourism have been a major focus of Chong Kwan’s work to date.

Part Four of The Grand Tour – “Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy” is a large-scale installation inspired by ArtSway gallery's rural location, incorporating sculpture, photography and sound work, of an imaginary tourist resort which plays upon pagan myths and weather elements, made out of inert edible vegetables. ‘Terroir’ is an imaginary and all-encompassing tourist resort, populated by people whose real character is disguised through vegetable outfits and masks. The installation features large-format photographic images of the resort accompanied by portraits of the characters that inhabit this themed resort.

Gayle's Exhibition ran until 14th June 2009 at ArtSway, New Forest, Hampshire. For more information on The Grand Tour you can visit Gayle's website.

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Peter Fraser's Oxford Residency

Acclaimed artist and photographer Peter Fraser was invited to take up an artist’s residency at Oxford University as a result of a collaboration between the Ruskin School of Drawing, the Biochemistry Department and Artpoint, Oxford, an arts consultative body.

Peter was charged with making new work over two and a half years, in the midst of two adjacent Biochemistry Department buildings being demolished, and a landmark new Biochemistry building, designed by Hawkins Brown, London, being built on that footprint.

The first building (of two) has now been completed and Oxford University has recently purchased works from Fraser for permanent installation in the new building. Genesis Imaging worked closely with Peter to produce a massive Diptych at 3m x 7.2m and six works at 1.2m x 1.5m. The Diptych pictured above, was printed in 6 sections using our Lambda printer, then mounted onto Dibond with MDF backing and finished with a gloss seal.

More information on Peter's work can be found on his website.

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Lisa Tomasetti Exhibition

Genesis Imaging have worked closely with Lisa Tomasetti – a internationally acclaimed Australian visual artist and film stills photographer to produce her first exhibition in the UK called “Burnt Memory.” We printed 21 giant Giclée prints of her stunning images, then mounted and framed them for her exhibition at London's Hoopers Gallery.

Her new work examines the representation of women and children in the history of art, but also challenges assumptions about class and race. Referencing Old Master paintings, Tomasetti uses indigenous women and children from different cultures to replace the traditional ‘white middle-class’ sitter of previous centuries. The sitters, carefully selected by the artist for their ‘stillness’, are placed in large, empty spaces evoking the repressive effects of a colonial past and creating haunting portraits which tackle issues of displacement and colonialisation.

Dramatically lit and rich in colour, the large-scale photographs have a beautiful, painterly style reminiscent of the work of Caravaggio and Vermeer and are perfect material to emphasize the brilliant colour, sharp definition and eye-catching visual quality of our Giclée printing process.

Lisa's exhibition ran in March 2009 at Hoopers Gallery, 15 Clerkenwell Close, London, EC1R 0AA.

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Richard Bryant Exhibition

Genesis Imaging are proud to have been involved in helping the UK’s leading architectural photographer Richard Bryant put together a collection of his images for an exhibition at Somerset House.

We produced stunning extra large Lambda prints (up to 3 metres by 1 metre), Perspex Face Mounted the prints with a Dibond backing mount and even installed the complete exhibition.

The photographic series captured over the past 24 months follow Richard's personal account of the city of London, picking out views, open spaces and closely observed architectural detail from the West’s coveted, leafy suburbs to the fast changing East with its building sites, vast glassy structures and brown-field expanses. It includes images of structures by the world’s most famous architects as well as little known views of London that force the viewer to reassess what they thought they knew about the city.

The exhibition marks the publication of Richard Bryant's London, a landmark photographic book by Rizzoli, which will be available to buy at Somerset House and also through amazon.co.uk.

Richard Bryant's Photographic Exhibition "Celebration Of A City" ran until May 2009, at Somerset House, The Strand, London, WC2R 1LA. More of Richard's work can be seen at his website www.richardbryant.co.uk

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We made an exhibition of ourselves and they went wild...

We are proud to have helped world renowned environmental photographer Roger Hooper produce his own photographic exhibition entitled “Endangered Wildlife Exposed” at the famous Oxo Gallery in London. The beautiful and moving photographic exhibition showcased Roger Hooper's stunning photographs of endangered species that are in need of our support if they are to be saved from extinction.

Genesis Imaging are delighted to have been involved with all aspects of the photographic prints for the exhibition - from first proofs to final prints, mounting, framing and all subsequent print sales.

Find out more about our our Photographic Exhibition Print Services.

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