About us
We go out looking for very small things
The de Glanville Collective is two photographers working side by side. We share a name on the door, a lot of kit and the same stubborn idea: that the most beautiful things outside are the ones you walk straight past.
A damselfly on a thistle. Rain sitting on a petal. A butterfly that never lands where you want it to. Up close they look like nothing else, and almost nobody stops long enough to see them.
So we stop for them. Then we print them big, on paper you’d want to touch, for walls people actually live with. Not a phone screen for two seconds, but a kitchen, a landing, the wall above a bed.
How a print gets to your wall
Slow work, mostly on our stomachs
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Found
Early, before the wind gets up and while the light is still soft. Riverbanks, field edges, the back of the garden. Lying flat in wet grass, waiting for something the size of a paperclip to stay still.
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Chosen
For every frame we print there are hundreds we don’t. We pick the ones that still hold up when you stand close to them, because at A1 you will.
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Proofed
Each image is test printed and checked by eye in daylight before we offer it in a size. If the detail breaks up when it’s big, it isn’t sold big.
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Packed and posted by us
On heavyweight fine art paper with a matt surface that won’t throw back the light from a window. We pack every order ourselves, rolled in a tube or framed and boxed, and post it tracked to your door, in the UK or abroad.