Gallery

Images by Jonathan Pazer
Click individual thumbnail images on the right or play the slideshow to view the gallery.

What do these images look like in person?

Most of my abstract photographs are presented in large sizes. They are beautiful limited edition prints that just sing out with vibrant colors and evoke curiosity and introspective moods.

Frameless, matless, glass-less, lightweight and extremely vivid, these images are all printed on a specially prepared sheet of aluminum, and then a mounting block is attached to the obverse side of the print.

In this very austere form the pictures are hung flat against the wall standing off it by just an inch. The look is modern and crisp.

I primarily print images in landscape at 24" x 36". This is large enough to hang a single image on a wall and for most rooms, have that wall feel full. This size also lets you 'enter' the image from across the room. You do not have to stand right in front of these photographs to engage with them.

In my home gallery, I have a 28' wall with 7 images evenly spaced across it. The linearity of this arrangement seems to work quite well, and demonstrates that multiple pieces can co-exist harmoniously on the same wall.

In terms of ideal viewing distance, these images would be best seen from about 5 feet away, and they are still very vibrant and engaging from across the room.

Hanging

Each print is provided with a 'mounting block' behind the aluminum. This is what allows the image to stand off of the wall. These pictures are designed to be hung on two parallel hooks, or drywall screws driven into the wall. When hung in this way the prints are perfectly flat against the wall, and and never need to be straightened.

As an alternative, though I don't recommend it, these pictures can be fitted with a picture hanging wire and hung conventionally as would any framed photograph. They can also be hung using the same method from a museum rail system. The reason I don't recommend that you hang this way is that the pictures tend to hang away from the wall at an angle which is both un-aesthetic and may cause more reflection and make it harder to view and enjoy the print. However, if you need to hang this way please let me know and I can modify the mounting to suit this kind of system.

ChromaLuxe Dye-Sublimation Printing on Aluminum

The ChromaLuxe Dye-Sublimation photographic printing process provides a true immediacy to the viewing experience. Using this archival quality process, the image is reproduced onto a sheet of aluminum. Because these works aren't printed on paper and placed behind glass so there is nothing to separate the viewer from the image, nothing to detract from their colorful intensity.

The printing process itself, that is Dye-Sublimation relies on creating an intermediate print called a 'transfer film.' This transfer film is printed with a special type of ink. Then the transfer film is laid carefully onto a piece of aluminum that has been coated with a layer of polyester.

Together the transfer film and the aluminum sheet are fed into a hot roller press where the film and metal are quickly heated. This causes the pores of the polyester coating the almunim sheet to open and at the same time converts the ink on the transfer sheet into a gas. Then it's chemistry time.

Sublimation is the chemical name for the transformation of a solid into a gas without its first passing through the intermediate state of being a liquid. Think, turning ice into steam: solid to liquid to gas.

With dye-sublimation inks, the ink goes from solid to gas when heated. The gas flows from it's high concentration on the transfer sheet to the low concentration on the surface of the polyester pores covering the aluminum. Once the concentration of ink is equalized, the sheet is rolled out of the hot press and allowed to cool. The pores of the polyester close and the ink is now trapped inside them. The surface of the polyester coating cools and becomes a clear smooth surface protecting the ink and creating the colors of the picture.