7 daysA week in photography £60, Taschen, hardcover, 296 pages, ISBN: 9783836592574
Obviously we are well-used to seeing majestic panoramas. Sometimes they’re shot during the daytime, other times they’re shot at night, but rarely do we get to see both in a single frame.
That’s where Stephen Wilkes comes in. Using a painstaking method which sees him shoot over 1,500 exposures from one angle for each of his panoramic images, he puts them together himself after the fact, meticulously composing selected frames into one image for the finished results.
All the images in this book were created between 2009 and 2002, and we see locations as diverse as the Serengeti and the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, the Grand Canyon and Coney Island and popular tourist locations such as Trafalgar Square…