Our unique combination of traditional photographic skills, mixed with innovative methods of mounting and producing exhibitions have seen Spectrum suddenly at the forefront of large format fine art printing in the UK.

Our strength lies in the size of our company, which is small enough to develop custom-made products for specific customers on a one to one basis, but big enough to manage and produce almost everything in-house.

Hiroji Kubota at More London

This year’s highlight was a project to produce huge images for Magnum to be used in an outdoor exhibition for a senior member - Hiroji Kubota. The Magnum project was an opportunity to work in a totally new environment as one section of a larger team dedicated to make the project a success. The idea was to make an exhibition for the area outside the GLA building on the Southbank, to be designed by Standard 8.

We love the opportunity to work on new and interesting projects and Hiroji proved to be a fascinating client, having nearly fifty years experience of making photographic exhibitions.

All the images were shot on 35mm film, so everything was drum scanned to create the highest quality digital files possible. Each image was produced as a small work print for Hiroji to study and comment upon. After all the retouching and adjustments had been made we started to make the prints, six of which were 3.6m. We produced full-image tests of different acrylic seals to decide upon the most suitable and finally all the prints were mounted to dibond and delivered to the site to be assembled into the exhibition panels.

The opening was attended by luminaries from Magnum, canon and the City of London and despite the rain; we felt the project was an outstanding success, a great tribute to the ambitions and vision of Hiroji Kubota and a triumph of teamwork.

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Reuters Headquarters, Canary Wharf

In 2005, Spectrum were approached by Pringle Brandon, the Architects responsible for designing the re-fit of the Transport building in Canary Wharf into headquarters for Reuters, the British global information company.

Reuters wanted to use their vast picture library to produce a vast exhibition, spanning ten floors and incorporating news, fashion, entertainment, travel and sport. Staff on each floor chose their favourite images and these were sent as digital files to Spectrum in batches.

To keep track of more than five hundred works, Spectrum jointly project managed the production with Reuters using a system of duplicate labels, one for the back of the picture and a second to be used in keeping tally of what had been printed.__In addition to the aluminium mounted pieces, Spectrum developed a custom-designed wall piece constructed from 25mm diamond polished Perspex, to be placed in each of the client meeting rooms, called “60-minute pieces”.

Working closely with Reuters designers, we were able to deliver and install all the works on time and within budget. In December 2005 the Queen visited the building and inspected, amongst other things, our handiwork!

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