Silence After Applause Exhibition at World EXPO Japan 2025
Canon has recently teamed up with the Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB), and professional photographer Clive Booth, to raise awareness of the BRB’s ground-breaking medical research into Relative Energy Deficiency in Dance (RED-D), through a compelling photographic print exhibition at EXPO 2025 in Osaka, Japan.
Demonstrating print’s power to move, the exhibition was premiered in the UK Pavilion of this year’s world EXPO and featured high-impact, large-format prints of photographs of BRB dancers.
Using Canon’s imagePROGRAF PRO series large format printers, the images were printed up to 1.6m long on Hahnemühle’s Bamboo Gloss Baryta, a paper made from 90% bamboo and 10% cotton fibres.
The Canon LUCIA PRO pigment inks ensured colour vibrancy, ideal for reproducing the striking portraits.
Selected images were also produced with elevated, tactile print on a Canon Arizona flatbed printer, ensuring that the imagery and story were also accessible for visually impaired visitors to EXPO.
Stuart Rising, head of graphic arts at Canon UK & Ireland, said: “This project is one of the best examples I’ve seen of using imagery and large format print to tell a powerful story. I am thrilled that we were able to bring our print expertise, alongside collaborative partners like Hahnemühle, to ensure that the outcome of the final exhibit met and even exceeded expectations.
“By using large format print in this way as a communication medium, BRB and the team have been able to maximise the impact of the photography in an engaging and thought-provoking way, raising awareness of the research through the art of visual storytelling and making a complicated medical issue far more approachable.”
