Piccadilly Circus

This joiner is pretty much the first joiner I created.
Inspired by the David Hockney technique, and reading an article on 'joining' I decided to take my camera out and give it a go.

For me Piccadilly Circus epitomises the whole reason behind why joining works for me, I'll try and explain...
If you've ever been to London, and used the tube (underground/subway) and you've exited at Piccadilly Circus then you may be familiar with the sudden overwhelming riot of colour, noise, sound, traffic and people that assaults the senses as you exit the tube.
It was as I was stood motionless, overwhelmed, taking it all in that a single detail caught and held my eye, it was one of the big advertising screens, and it was this detail forming memory which led me to the conclusion that a joiner would be perfect way of collecting and collating these individual 'memories'. That taking multiple photos of a single scene rather than one single photo would enable me to record multiple 'memories' and details and draw them all into a single image. And that should this joiner ever be printed that as a whole it would offer a familiar-ish landscape, but up close it would let the viewer see the individual memories which make up the landscape, almost forcing the viewer to see the detail.

I remember clinging on to the outside of the railing with 3 lanes of traffic racing past me, close enough to almost clip my shoes at times - I was almost hit by at least one cyclist and motorbike courier.
The real challenge with this joiner was removing all the vehicles, a lot of the buses and lorries blocked much of the scene, plus the joiner would have looked odd with lots of halves of cars and lorries, so, I stood, risking life and limb, for far longer than was safe to ensure I captured this landscape joiner in its entirety.

Music Track: Dandy Warhols - Get Off

Number of photos used: 58

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