How a print gets to you.

Below you can take a look at how a print gets to you (minus the editing and printing part)

All about quality and care.


First a signature on the back of the print with edition #


Then a signature and edition number on the matte in the front. This happens to be edition 2/25.


Peeling off the protection from the UV protected non glare acrylic.


Time to slide the acrylic,matte,print,and backboard into the frame.


Closing up the frame


Screwing it all together


Double checking everything looks good and there is no foreign bodies between the acrylic and matte/print


Tying the hanging wire on


Saying final farewells to the little baby


Now it's time for super wrapping


Extra super wrapping for supreme protection


Stickers and business cards get wrapped in as well


And into the shipping box before this one is delivered to Virginia...bye!

Follow the Light

Well tonight is the third annual Follow the Light Foundation awards ceremony held in memory of the great Larry "FLAME" Moore. It's been one year (and six days) since I was awarded the FTL grant for 2007.


What a dramatic ride it's been. I guess I will use this space to talk about what's happened in the past year for anyone visiting and wondering about what has been going on.

I proposed to spend the grant money on making a surf film about New York, telling of it's history and the people who are from NY, who surf, and where it has taken them...their journey. I, being known more for being a photographer, have a very solid background in film and film studies, I got my Bachelors in it. I had already made several short 16mm films and numerous video edits of surf in NY. I wanted to finally work on a feature...something big. My proposal is probably the reason I was awarded the grant in 2007. For more information on this check here: www.followthelightfoundation.org

It took me about a month before I purchased a video camera (which I had not previously owned) and began shooting. Unfortunately New York had the worst year of waves I could remember in surfing for 10 years now. Nonetheless I continued filming when it was two foot, or when it was 30 degrees out and onshore. Nothing stopped me pursuing this project. I put my all into this video and after a year of working on it I realized it came much further than I had previously thought. While I was filming for the New York Surf Documentary, I also began several other projects. One of them being an East Coast bodyboarding video titled "Cheeseburger Brains" which hopefully will be finished by 2010. Cheeseburger Brains will be all East Coast or East Coast riders and quite different than any other bodyboarding videos in the past.

I also quickly began a photography buisness (Matt Clark Photography LLC) and started my website www.clarkography.com From there I began selling Limited Edition Canvas prints of a select few of individually signed and numbered images which sold very well.






I also began printing Fine Art Limited Editions of my prints which are also individually signed, numbered, matted and framed.




I'm also lucky enough and forever thankfull to www.waveridersgallery.net for representing me as an artist. You can go there to purchase some of my photographic prints.

This had all been going on while I returned for one more year of postgraduate studies in Photography. While working on my photography degree I also began working on my first photography book titled "Delenda".



This too coincided with my Surfline Portfolio Series which can be found here www.surfline.com

and my portfolio as a selected East Coast Photographer representing New York and New Jersey in Water Magazine which can be seen here: WATER MAGAZINE

If you'd like to see the video shown at the FTL Awards Dinner click here

Some more images

08

This past surf season, which I view as starting in September 07 and ending in August 08 has been BEAT. Terrible Hurricane season with basically 1 storm generating swell for us...Hurricane Noel, which was meh here in NY. Bertha had her run in 08 but it wasn't anything epic either. What happened to big burly hurricane surf? What happened to Rocktober? Where were the epic phantom swells? I'll keep my eyes facing foward.

Edit...
one more pic from 08

To purchase a print:

I've had many inquiries about prints.
I will only print with/on highest quality materials available.
Several prints are Limited Edition such as this image:

Available for purchase are both canvas and framed and matted images. Both are given to you ready to hang, individually signed, and numbered.
Send all questions to MattClarkPhotography@gmail.com
Thanks to everyone who has emailed me already.

Hello Noobs.

Matt Clark Surfline Porfolio

Looks as if there will be a mass visit in the coming days to my site/blog from Surfline viewers.

If anyone has any questions for me feel free to shoot me an email: mattclarkphotography@gmail.com
I will get back to each and everyone of you asap.
If you're interested in prints please check here:
www.waveridersgallery.net
under photography. Also be sure to check the other photographers as well.
If you don't find what you're looking for there, then email me if you see any image you like and we can work from there.

Oh also, if you're surfing the internet(not funny) then check out the links on the side of the page, there's many links for the photographers out there as well as wave riders and anyone else.
Please enjoy my photographs.
-Matt

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