Panography
The artworks which I call “panographs” are panoramic shots in the classic sense, but expanded by the temporal dimension: digitally created wide-angle images that are manually assembled from many different individual photos taken at various angles. In contrast to a normal photograph, which usually only depicts merely a millisecond, a complete panograph includes a period of up to 30 minutes.
This technique leads to works with the cubist effect of kaleidoscopic super wide-angle panoramas of places and buildings like Times Square in New York, Potsdamer Platz in Berlin or Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Hohenzollernbrücke
Colonius
Bogen
Arc de Triomf
Kapstadt Hafen
Ermitage
Laleli Camii
Rheinauhafen
Potsdamer Platz
Landschaftspark
Times Square
Münster-Therme
Schalke
Hotel de Ville
Ständehaus
Kirmes
Centre Pompidou
Mt. Rainier
Franschhoek
Medienhafen
Notre Dame
Deutsche Bank
Brand Space
GUM
Granville Isl Vancouver
Dom
Tower Bridge
Basilius
I coined the term panography in 2006, when there was no name for this kind of image. The technique grew into a form of its own: in 2010 Galerie Bailly Contemporain in Paris showed the solo exhibition »Panography«, and the series was nominated for the French Prix Arcimboldo. From 2010 to 2016 the works were distributed through Lumas with a separate exibition featuring it in Paris as well.
In 2011 I assembled a wall-sized panograph live in front of an audience at Telekom’s 4010 flagship store in Cologne. Every single frame was placed by hand; there, the wall was the canvas and the build itself was the work.
The panographs shown here were made between 2007 and 2015 in Cologne, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Paris, New York, London, Moscow, Istanbul, Barcelona, Vancouver, Cape Town and at Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord among other places.