Image Licensing, Posters, Greeting Cards, etc

Dave Butcher black and white photographs are now widely licensed for use on greetings cards, posters, book and magazine illustration and many more. We are continually looking for new partners in this area so if you have a need for a striking black and white image please contact us to discuss the options.

Working exclusively in black and white, the photographs of Dave Butcher are available for exclusive or non-exclusive licenses.

Applications include:

• Posters (exclusively handled by International Graphics Walmsley GmbH but sub-licenses are available for all images in this web Gallery through IGW).
• Other wall-art on glass, ceramics or scripted,
• Greetings cards
• Calendars
• Jigsaws
• Book illustrations
• Advertising and PR
• Packaging
• and many more.

File Size and Resolution:

• Most of the black and white photographs in the image library were taken on medium format film.
• Negatives mostly 6 x 6 cm (2.25 x 2.25 in) or 6 x 7 cm (2.25 x 2.75 in). These large negatives gives very high quality image files from scans of the original black and white film negative.
• High resolution film scans use a Nikon Coolscan 9000ED scanner and 4000 dpi, 16 bit, multi-pass sampling.
• After editing and flattening of the layers grey scale image files are between 150 Mb and 300 Mb, depending on cropping of the original film negative.
• Image files will be sized to suit applications.
• At 300 dpi a print size of up to 1 metre is achieved without interpolation,
• The largest image so far printed by a client (International Graphics Walmsley GmbH) is 1m x 0.5 m.

Image Selection: The images displayed on the Gallery pages are a small selection from my extensive image library. If you don't see what you want or you like an image but would need different cropping or format for your application then please call to discuss the options.

Images on other pages are also available for licensing, such as photographs of a working darkroom, which have already been used to illustrate a book.

Call now or email to discuss your needs with Dave Butcher or Jan Butcher.

Clients and examples of their use include:

Harman Technology Ltd Harman Technology is the parent company of Ilford Photo. Harman make the Ilford range of black and white photographic films, papers and chemicals. They have used many Dave Butcher photographs for the advertising and PR of the Ilford range of photographic products. This includes images for large exhibitions and trade shows such as Photokina (Germany), Focus on Imaging (UK) and Photoplus (USA) as well as using them on product packaging.

Oji Ilford Oji Ilford is the company that now makes Ilford digital and colour products, based in Switzerland. They use my images at large trade shows, like Photokina in Koln in Germany, to demonstrate the performance of their ink jet products.

International Graphics Walmsley GmbH International Graphics Walmsley GmbH publish a range of fine art posters using my images and sell them worldwide from their base in Eggenstein Germany. They have exclusive use of my images for poster-style wall art, worldwide, until 2010 but can sub-contract for printing onto other media such as canvas and other images.

New View Gifts & Accessories Ltd   New View Gifts and Accessories Ltd. (based in Philadelphia USA) have an exclusive license for an image used in scripted wall-art in North America. The finished item is sold across America through Kohl's department stores.

Hallmark Cards Ltd Hallmark cards use my images for greetings cards on non-exclusive licenses.

Mandala Press Mandala Press, a new publisher of greetings cards in the USA, have the exclusive use of 1 image.

Rotovision Books Rotovision Books, made extensive use of my images in the book "B&W Photo Lab: Processing and Printing" by Julian Busselle, 1999.