EVERY BUILDING ON THE KIRKSTALL ROAD
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A 7m LONG PANORAMA
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A 7m-long photographic accordion depicting a 3km stretch of road in Leeds.
Painstakingly riso-printed and hand-crafted to produce an almost absurdly long piece that is hard to miss once it is unfolded and displayed.
This project was awarded the “Graphic Design Award for Photography” and is still one of my favourite pieces of work I have created.
Painstakingly riso-printed and hand-crafted to produce an almost absurdly long piece that is hard to miss once it is unfolded and displayed.
This project was awarded the “Graphic Design Award for Photography” and is still one of my favourite pieces of work I have created.
To achieve the insane length, over 2000 photos of each side of the same boring main road near the centre of Leeds were taken. Editing, ordering, and managing the mass of images into a single straight line of paper.
The goal of such a statement was to create something eye-catching through relatively mundane photography and typography to show that sometimes even the most boring photos can be interesting within a collection and within the right context.
To create the panorama, I taped my phone to my car window and set a timelapse while I drove down the road both ways.
I then sifted through over 4000 frames and cut it down to less than 700 so that the photos could stitch together as seamlessly as possible without repeated frames. From there I arranged all the photos in order and blended each together to make for a consistent and clean panorama throughout the whole publication.
Once the panorama is printed, it is just the "small" task of hand-folding and binding all 7m of the publication.