Hidden inside the bigger picture were people, places and even the smiling faces of those who had died.

A freelance photographer has captured Kapiti Island by creating a mega-landscape made from thousands of photos of the island contributed by Kapiti people.

Murray Short has unveiled The People’s Kapiti Island, an 8.2-metre-long “collaborative photograph” comprising 1200 original contributed photos, some replicated up to 70 times, joined into a complete image.

Inspiration for the work, the length of a bus, came from the likes of Auckland installation artist Tiffany Singh, and British artist David Hockney.

Each of the 1200 submitted images were fed into a program called AndreaMosaic which produced the final work, so large it had to be saved as 81 separate files.

The picture consisted of 10,206 “tiles”, each about 5 centimetres by 3cm, with some of the submitted images repeated across the mosaic.

“Everybody’s got a sunset photograph of Kapiti. The ones that appealed to me more were the ones that had personal investment, personal input,” Short said.

This article was originally on Stuff

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