Photographic Frames

Framing Photographic Art

Photographic Frames for photographic artists.
Photographs vary hugely from different types of paper to different finishes, matt, semi gloss, gloss pearl, all of which mean that there is a lot to contend with. At Artisan Frames we work very hard to get the right frame for each kind of photograph that we are asked to frame.
Included in this are standard window mount frames (see window mounted frames) and Box frames (see more in the section on box frames), but further than this we also cold mount to Di-bond, Foamex and perspex.

Framing photos & digital art paper. Gicleé Prints
When framing works on paper like digital art photographs or gicleé prints, great care needs to be taken as the can scuff very easily particularly on the blacks. Cold mounting will help to keep the paper flat and take the curl out of it. Window mouts are good to keep the work flat witout having to stick the work down permantly. An alternative is to raise and float the piece in a box frame.

Cold mounting photographs.

Photograph on Dibond with a walnut tray frame.

This contemporary photograph of a wooded landscape was cold mounted to dibond before framing it with a slimline walnut frame. We finished the frame in a low sheen lacquer to enrich the colour ...

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Tray Framed Photograph on DiBond.

Clare Cashman, Framed Photograph.

A tray frame or Float frame is a frame without glass. When framing a photograph in this fashion the image is usually cold mounted to a substrate like dibond in the above example by Clare Cashman. A small gap around the edge of the image gives the impression that the image is floating within the frame.

Framed Photograph to Image size

Beekeeper - Patrick Hogan

Box framing a photograph to image size is a contemporary way to present an image because it focuses the attention of the viewer exclusively on the image area.
Here the photograph has been cold mounted to prevent cockling as it is held in the frame all around the paper edge.