The Framers Forum

Well I guess I better introduce myself. I'm Mark from Brighouse, West Yorkshire.

I'm not a framer but a photographer and have recently started making my own frames. I have been matting my own prints for sometime now for exhibitions and sales but have been buying frames from a couple of online framing companies. I've now decided to move this operation in house mainly for cost and convenience reasons.

I also build wooden cameras for the wet plate collodion process which dates back to the victorian era. As such I'm a competent woodworker and am fortunate to have a well equipped workshop in fact the only thing I now need is a good reliable underpinner (a post in the wanted page with no doubt follow this).

If anyone wants to know more about my photography work have a nosey at http://markvoce.com

All the best,
Mark

Hello Mark, I love your work. I've visited your website many times before today. I used to have a darkroom at Dean Clough and showed my work in the Photographer's Gallery back in 2005.

Must treat myself to one of your platinum workshops one day.

Welcome to the forum

Thank you David, I exhibited in the same gallery in 2011 it's a nice space and a great collection of mills. I looked at getting a workshop / studio there too but in the end got a better deal up the road at Black Dyke Mills in Queensbury.