With over 15 years of experience in the print industry, Faraz Ahmad, Co-Founder of the UK’s leading professional fine art printer and bespoke framers talks to Louise Long about the nitty-gritty of the framing process, the latest trends among photographers, and the creative possibilities the process can offer
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In a time of deep toxicity around immigration, the south London artist uses cameraless photography to foster care and conversations
We visit a bright apartment in the 17th arrondissement of Paris administered by DRAC, an organisation which supports artists
BJP-online Loves Maria Sturm’s You don’t look Native to me, Jean-Vincent Simonet’s psychedelic images of Tokyo, Roger Melis’ photographs of East Germany, Dawoud Bey’s exhibition Places in History, and the fact that MACK’s First Book Award is now open-entry
“I love how the city is in perpetual metamorphosis. It’s always moving and glowing,” says Jean-Vincent Simonet, who visited Tokyo, Japan for the first time in 2016, and quickly decided he would shoot at night. “Giving a liquid feeling to the photographs made sense to me. It reinforced the psychedelic experience of being in the city”.
People in Japan describe Tokyo as a “living entity” – not just because of the earthquakes and typhoons that regularly stir the capital, but because it is a city in constant flux. At all hours of the day and night, streams of people and cars rush down its huge neon streets, which sprawl out like tributaries into pedestrianised roads, stacked 10 stories high with shops, restaurants and karaoke bars. Vibrant city centres seem to emerge right off the back of darker inner-city suburban streets, which are all connected by colossal highways, and an elaborate train network that dwarfs most other capital cities’.
When it comes to exhibiting your photography, every aspect has a vital role in showing…