Everytime before the show, I need to worry about the presentation. To me, mounting & framing & all that photo finishing stuff is a whole new world. They use a completely different terminology that I can hardly understand.

Last time I had my prints mounted on Sintra board & put frame on the back of the board(called floater). The result looks pretty good, my photo just floated on the wall. However, I’m not satisfied with durability of it. At the same time I want sth glossy on top of it. So I checked online finally I found this. So if possible I’d like to have my print face mounted to plexiglass & back mouted to sintra board & then put the floater on the back of it. If that’s workable, & affordable, I’d like to do it this time. Hope my local lab can do it.

Another option is like the one I saw in Alec Soth’s show.

Probably the same thing here:

I think it is like print back mounted to Sintra board (or others) & then put into a shadow box. I went to Michael’s & looked for shadow boxes, but none of them look good. I want the shadow box be very shallow, simple, white. They all kind look too “crafty”, sometimes even with a stupid lock on it. I don’t know if I can find a more contemporary smart looking shadow box or those are specially made frame or what.

 Wait! I found this. Exactly what I want! But it is in Europe. Where can I do this in US?

So, I tried MPI, they cannot do it. Bennett said it’s too risky, he no longer does that. Chase, help!

Places I found online, but no time to try this time, maybe next time.
http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=007plv
http://www.imageimpactinc.com/imageimpactinc/price_frames.asp
http://www.wilcovak.nl/uk/index.htm
http://www.fourblankwalls.co.uk/index.html
http://shop.sentiam.com/