artwork photographs
The Canterbury Art Exhibition will have an online catalogue this year and will provide the opportunity for artists to further enhance the promotion of their works by including photographs on the site.
This document outlines how the exhibition will source the artwork photographs and how they will be used.
Photograph Sources
- Artist Supplied Digital Photographs
Artists may supply digital photographs of their works for inclusion in the online catalogue. These should conform to the supplied digital photograph specifications below. It is best if they are taken directly from a digital camera with little or no manipulation. Any artists wishing to supply digital photographs should email them to admin@canterburyart.com. Please make sure that no more than 4MB of photo files are attached to one email. Please make sure that the title of each artwork photograph is supplied.
- Art Exhibition Digital Photographs
If no suitable digital photograph is provided by the artist the Canterbury Art Exhibition Committee will arrange to produce a photograph. The photograph will be taken using a digital camera by the exhibition photographer. This will generally happen after the artworks are delivered to the exhibition. Don't worry if your works are behind glass. We have techniques for photographing artworks behind glass without reflections. Photographs taken by the exhibition photographer are processed using colour management which aims at producing a close representation of the original colours.
Supplied Digital Photograph Specifications
- Format JPEG
- Maximum file size 2MB
- Minimum size of longer side 500 pixels
- Colour profile sRGB
When will artwork photos appear on the site?
We aim to have photographs on the web site soon after they are received or taken by the exhibition photographer.
There are no guarantees that supplied photographs or any photographs will be used on the site. They might be omitted because they are not suitable based on the requirements outlined above, because of poor quality or due to time limitations.
We may substitute photographs taken by the exhibition photographer when a better result can be achieved than using artist supplied photographs.
To assure early appearance on the web site send us digital photographs by email as soon as you can.
Copyright on Artwork Photographs
Artist supplied artwork photographs will have a copyright owned by the artist or the artist's photographer.
The Canterbury Art Exhibition will own the copyright on all photographs taken by the exhibition photographer.
A great deal of care will be taken to protect the interests of the artist and their rights in the copyright of the underlying artworks.
The artwork photographic images will be used only for the promotion of the Canterbury Art Exhibition. The artwork images will always be accompanied by some text which attributes the depicted artwork to the artist. The uses will include placement on the www.canterburyart.com public web site with size limitations outlined below and a copyright notice to browsers. The artwork images will be contained in an online catalogue which will be available from prior to the exhibition to an indefinite period afterwards (probably years). The artwork images may also be used in advertising to promote the exhibition or in editorial articles which are promoting the exhibition. Any other use must be authorised by the artist.
The artist may request that the artwork images be removed from public www.canterburyart.com display at any time by sending email to admin@canterburyart.com.
Under the normal artist agreement, an artist is not entitled to use digital copies of photographs taken by the exhibition photographer outside of the www.canterburyart.com site. An artist may request the use of digital copies at any time. The Canterbury Art Exhibition Committee reserves the right to impose a small charge for this service. Enquiries to admin@canterburyart.com.
The artist may use the www.canterburyart.com website which may
include photographs of their artwork and other promotional material at
any time to aid in ongoing promotion of their work. Each artist will
have a page which can be bookmarked that leads directly to promotion of
their works alone. (eg: http://www.canterburyart.com/artist/RohanSmith)
Public Web Site Photograph Size Limit
The size of all photographs of artist works displayed on the public web site of www.canterburyart.com will be limited. This is to ensure that it is not possible for someone to produce unauthorised high quality printed copies of the photographs. It also helps keep the download times for people on slow Internet links at a reasonable level.
Artwork photographs made available to the public on the www.canterburyart.com web site will never exceed 500 pixels on any side.
The grey square below has sides of 500 pixels. All artwork photos on the public web site will fit inside this square.
500 x 500
The maximum size may be used when showing the detail of one work.
Smaller sizes will be used when several works are shown together.
Accuracy of Representation
The photographs will be produced to the highest standard available to the exhibition photography process. It is expected that there will be some variation from the true colours on some web browsers and screens used to view the photographs. This is a normal limitation of the technology.
Art patrons will be encouraged to come and see the real thing at the exhibition.
Artwork Photography Contact
The Convenors
Canterbury Art Exhibition
Canterbury Primary School
Molesworth Street
Canterbury Victoria 3126
Email: admin@canterburyart.com
Revised 8-May-2010 - Changed: Supplied Digital Photograph Specifications
Previously revised 17 November 2002