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Printing Your Photographs

A gallery link is not an heirloom. Some notes on paper, size and where files actually go to die.

April 29, 20261 min read

Every file we deliver is edited so it holds up on paper — enough contrast to survive ink, enough resolution to enlarge, and colour that does not collapse when it leaves a backlit screen. If you are unsure what to print or how large, ask us — it is a better question to ask early than late.

Choose fewer, and larger

Thirty small prints in a box get looked at once. Six large ones on a wall get looked at daily. If you print nothing else, print the frames you would want someone to find in fifty years.


The photographs that survive are the ones that got printed. That has been true for a hundred years and the cloud has not changed it.

Matte and lightly textured papers suit this kind of work better than gloss: they hold the grain instead of arguing with it, and they do not throw reflections across a room.

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Printing Your Photographs · MEMORIA