About

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Tracey Swain
Trained on a Photographic Degree course followed by a BTEC HND Photographic Laboratory Skills Degree.

A lover of the works of Masters such as Ansel Adams,Man Ray,Bill Brandt,Edward Weston,and the likes of Simon Marsden, Lord Lichfield, John Swannel,and many others

Went into professional printing in the darkroom arena dupe trannies, E6 processing, Cibachrome prints large format 6ftx4ft, R types and other professional artistes portfolio photographic work.

As the photographic industry faded in London and lab after lab went to the wall retrained with a degree in Photolithography IE: printing digitally via an Apple Mac/PC to either plate and litho press or large format ink jet printers. The use of Crosfield scanners to accurately scan photographic material for digital print output.

Tracey has since worked for both sheet and web printers on direct mail, cheques, magazines and packaging production, using her knowledge to get the best from supplied designers work on press.

In the spring of this year Tracey was commissioned by the I.G.A. to produce a calender of images for its 07 calender which can be found in the links page.

Tarik Chance
Trained at the same college as Tracey on a dedicated Photographic Printing course on C-Type machine printing and Lab management, also worked in professional photographic printing labs on C-types R-types and E6. Tarik won the prestigous BJP award for Cibachrome printer of the year for Kromastat.

Tarik moved over to the Mac side of printing earlier than Tracey his first company being at the forefront of DTP working on the likes of MacUser and has covered many fields including working for Apple itself within a BETA testing site,his expertise encompasses lenticular and 3d genres as well as magazine production and photographic print work via mac plus Web shop merchandising selling and production.

Tarik has a love of the circuits and has a growing reputation amongst the modified car and racing fraternity as well as a renowned and trusted reputation for his model portfolio work.

We both pride ourselves on achieving the best we can out of our equipment and surroundings, and have a natural eye for a shot and attention to detail.

Should you wish to know more please dont hesitate to contact us.