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In August 2010 we had a well-received exhibition of our photographs in the "Temple" at St. Roman-en-Diois where we are in the process of building a house. In November 2010 we had confirmation that the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco were going ahead with the proposed exhibition of our Papua New Guinea photographs taken between 1970 and 1973. This exhibition opened with a press conference on 11 February and runs until 20 March 2011. The exhibition is outside on the Esplanade in front of the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, and is permanently open and accessible. The Boutique in the Forum is offering a selection of our limited edition, signed prints for sale.
We spent November, December and January working full-time to restore over 100 of the relatively ancient transparencies and black & white negatives. The restoration was hard work and we learned a lot in the course of this work and spent far too long in front of our computers. However, without Richard Kenward's (Precision Drum Scanning) superb drumscans, we could not have achieved the necessary quality from a large number of the originals. Without digital technology we would never have been able to produce files of the quality needed for that exhibition from those originals handicapped by age and the limitations photographers faced nearly 40 years ago.
We are very pleased with the end product and extremely proud of it. The prints look superb - the largest are 1.8m x 1.2m and the smallest just under A1. We have long considered an exhibition on this subject but without the openness, enthusiasm and support of Catherine Alestchenkoff and her team at the Grimaldi Forum it would probably never have happened.