Why Print Photographs? Why turn an image into a photograph? What value does a photograph have?
To print a photograph is:
To acknowledge what is important to us and to show that you value what is in it - the subject. Whether that be a person, place, view, object, moment, feeling or a combination of all. You want it to last forever, be able to access it and also want others to know that in years to come. For example, you know that photo in the hallway of your grandparents house? Yep, that one, well you made a connection with it because it was there, in their art gallery for all the world to see, not hidden away on an old hard drive.
Printing our photographs leaves a very clear message to others around us now and the generations to come of what matters to us. The photographs handed down to us by our grandparents and their parents, were a gift to us from them. Their legacy.
Like plating up and serving a meal rather than just leaving people to help themselves and hope that they stumble across things. Leaving things to chance that way. By printing your photographs you are curating your own art gallery of the moments, people and places of your life.
This summer during lockdown, I have taken 4500 photographs on my camera and probably 4 times that amount on my phone. I am leaving it to chance that one day my son will find those photographs. If I leave them unedited (essentailly like digital negatives), he won't know my intentions to make books and to print them, but infact this will have the opposite effect. He may also think that I don't value that time. Who knows, my hard drives might fail, or he might not know to look for a massive archive of photgraphs on a cloud somewhere, or he might not know my password. The cloud might not be a "thing" in the future. What we do know is that photographs last/stand then test of time.
Who knows in years to come, those technologies may no longer exist, but what we do know from experience is that photographic prints last
Is to leave an instant trigger back to that moment, place, feeling or person. A connection wiht that person in the photograph smiling back at you. Rather than leaving it to chance or scrolling through 1000s of photographs means the really important ones can be missed and pale into insignificance.
To hold a print or album in our hands involves another one of our senses (touch) which makes the experience more immersive. To hold something in your hands means more than just scrolling though or past images on a screen.
Images on a screen are back lit vs those printed are front lit - What difference does this make???
To leave a legacy/heirloom and show value
Children that grow up in a home with photographs displayed on the walls or in albums of them and their loved ones, makes them feel more loved, valued and secure and shows that they are part of a bigger group of people. That feeling of inclusion.
It may be a whole album or it may just be one framed print in the hallways that encompasses that moment for you
Where do you spend most of your time at home? Kitchen, lounge, bedroom, the kids room, your office? Lets work together to make artwork that best suits you and how you live - waterproof print in the kitchen for example or in the playroom
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