The world's widest panoramic photograph?

A walk down Kitengela Road, Nairobi: by Steve Bloom
This panoramic image might be the world's widest continuous photographic image. It appears in the book Trading Places, The Merchants of Nairobi: by Steve Bloom, which can be seen at http://www.stevebloomphoto.com.

The photographers ongoing challenge is to encapsulate lifes experiences in a rectangular, twodimensional form. In reality, of course, we perceive the visual world as an endlessly unfolding synthesis of images, in which pieces come together and then disperse as our eyes dart around and we move through time and space.
This long photograph of Kitengela Road here captures the hustle and bustle of Nairobi's Langata neighbourhood in a naturalistic, unposed way, giving the viewer the illusion of walking down the road. Steve Bloom started at the Hotel Hilton at the far end on the right, and moved along to the Jeddy Hair Salon, taking a photograph every four paces.
The resulting images were painstakingly stitched together. As the eye moves along the photograph, the viewpoint changes continually, as if the viewer is physically moving down the road. Some of the traders, such as the knife sharpener, are seen repeatedly, going about their business in different parts of the road at different times. This image opposes the 'decisive moment' approach to photography, and is more cinematic in its structure.
In the book, this image stretches across the title page and sixteen pages of the introduction. When printed one metre high, the print is about forty metres long.

Learn more about Steve Bloom at http://www.stevebloomphoto.com
Buy signed copies of the book at http://www.stevebloomshop.com
Licence images to publish at http://www.stevebloom.com/index.php

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[Joseph M]

google earth is most longest panoramic photograph

[Rough Draft]

...Damn, you got him there lol

[tokyosuni]

wow, now THAT photo was ridiculous

[Steve Bloom]

That's deliberate, because you see the same people in different places at different times. Just like walking down the road.Seen the knife sharpener with his blue wheel?

[filmgeek812]

incredible, really nice

[julinization]

nice work



[badohno]

this is amazing well done i miss kenya so much.thanks for posting this up

[Hanif Set]

super duper cooollllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tamtammontreal]

Cooooool !

[starDEVIL666]

AMAZING