The latest edition of the World Wide Panorama Event, held March 15 – 21, 2006, features 240 new VRs on the theme “borders” and its many interpretations. Entries were received from 43 countries.Organizers Don Bain, Landis Bennett, Markus Altendorff and Thomas Rauscher continue to do a splendid job managing this event and steamlining the submission process and website. The most recent addition is Google Earth.
Ray Broussard
Bordered by Levee Failures Since Katrina
New Orleans, Louisiana
What’s interesting about this submission is the story behind the panorama. Ray Broussard lost his home, car and neighborhood but his panorama doesn’t show destruction. “I’ve shot many panoramas in New Orleans since the storm, but have not yet felt like sharing them publicly,” he writes. “Doing so feels sort of like sharing pictures of yourself naked, dirty and beaten to a bloody pulp laying in a putrid gutter.”
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Aleksandar Janicijevic
The Faceless Street
Toronto, Canada
Janicijevic takes one of Toronto’s main arteries, Leslie Street, and composes a panorama by stitching together 14 photos, all taken the same distance from the fence, creating an illusion of being surrounded in a fenced in area. An example of bad urban planning and zoning laws, it “emphasizes the impression of separation and detachment of people from each other and prevents us from being complete human beings,” he explains.
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Ken Stuart
Personal Borders
California State University, Northridge, California, US
This faceless submission examines the borders clothes impose. Stuart has digitally removed the skin of people in this composite shot, “placing the emphasis on what people wear rather than what they leave visible (or not)”.
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Erik Olsen
Ellis Island
New York City, New York, USA
The quintessential American border, Ellis Island was the first stop for millions of new immigrants.
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Anne Savage
64 Square Feet
Ionia, Michigan, USA
Sixty-four feet of cell; the border imposed by society when unacceptable lines are crossed.
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Stefania Zangrando
My Childhood Border
Just behind home, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
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Michel Thoby
I Could Have Been a Pet
Baziege, France
A pet miniature rabbit’s man-made borders.
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Claudio Lanconelli
Beyond the Border
Bagnacavallo, Emilia Romagna, Italy
This one is a bit macabre, showing the remains of a long-forgotten family burial plot, discovered during church renovations.
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The next WWP event will be held June 20 – 25, 2006 and the theme is “Gardens”. Learn more about it here.
World Wide Panorama events are sponsored by the Geography Computing Facility at the University of California Berkeley. This site is hosted by The Geo-Images Project. This is a non-commercial project, done simply to create enthusiasm for VR photography, and provide an outlet for our collective creativity.
Visit World Wide Panorama for a complete list of all WWP events.
Related Articles:
- An Interview With World Wide Panorama Organizers
