Spectrum
Founded in Brighton in 1933, Spectrum are a longstanding professional imaging lab specialising in high quality fine art and photographic printing, as well as archival mounting. For our Liverpool Biennial 2016 exhibition, Spectrum have been working on archival contact sheets from photographer Dave Sinclair.
Sinclair captured the 1985 Youth Training Scheme protest, which saw over 10,000 school children take to the streets of Liverpool. At a time of 80% unemployment in the City, the young people where standing against the Conservative governments compulsory, unskilled, unpaid scheme. They marched from St Georges Hall down to the Pier Head, where Open Eye Gallery is located. Japanese artist Koki Tanaka has re-staged this protest and invited original participants from the protest to reflect on the past and look to the future.
The installation at Open Eye Gallery consists of billboard prints, videos and interviews from Koki Tanaka’s re-staging of the protest, as well as reproduction prints from Dave Sinclair’s original photographs.
Spectrum have scanned three of Dave Sinclair’s archival contact sheets and made overall corrections to match the original prints. The contact sheets have then been enlarged and printed as C-Type Matt prints before being mounted on Dibond with battens fixings.
Visit our Liverpool Biennial 2016 exhibition from 9 July – 16 October 2016.
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