Name Danny Pope | Role Printer | |
Education Falmouth University (1980) | ||
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Danny Pope (born February 11, 1960, of English and Italian heritage) is a bespoke photographic printer and restorer. Danny has printed works for photographers such as Andrew Catlin, David Hiscock, Linda McCartney, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Calum Colvin, Tim Page, Corinne Day, Ian McKell, Brian Aris, Eve Arnold, The Douglas Brothers, Terry O’Neil, David Bailey, Barry Lategan and Terence Donovan.
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- Danny Pope Scenes 1080p Logoless
- Early life and career
- Articles
- llford Photographic Awards
- The British Picture Editors Awards
- References
Panorama Magazine called Danny the "Master of Polopan Printing". Danny was the first color printer to win the Ilford Printer of the Year Award in 1993.
Early life and career
Danny completed Foundation Studies in Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art in 1980, where he practiced painting in a photo realist style. Following that, Danny worked on a Manpower Services Project, painting murals on canvas for a hospice in the East End. Working from transparencies taken locally in the East End, It was here that Danny taught himself how to make Cibrachrome prints from the slides as reference material to paint from.
In 1983, Danny launched Matchless Prints Ltd in Clerkenwell Road, London, following the support of Terry Donovan, who encouraged him to go into business, despite his lack of formal training, and disregarding the fact he was only 23. Early on he worked for clients such as Roger Charity, Mark LeBon and Eamon McCabe, producing creative prints that utilized different filtrations to the norm.
Danny is credited with being the first printer to use the technique of “painting with light” on black and white Polapan transparencies to produce complex color prints. Matchless Prints moved to Bloomsbury in 1990 and in 2001 Danny opened another Matchless Prints studio in Milan. In 2006 Danny opened Steidlville London, the first showcase bookstore for publisher, Steidl.
With the advent of digital technology, now Danny translates the skills of traditional wet printing within the digital domain.