Thailand Wat Pho by Bob Karhof

About "Thailand Wat Pho"

by Bob Karhof

About the artwork

This multiple panorama is the result of a photo journey within a trip to Thailand. I was at Wat Po temple in Bangkok and wanted to use my multiple shots within a panorama frame to represent my experience of this beautiful temple setting. What you see is a panorama composed of 7 different images.

Intuitive process
My aim is to create a whole image from different locations that 'makes sense' in the same way that my own memory of a trip is composed of images I have collected in my mind. I want to reflect this in my photographic form. My panorama is made up of 7 images. This is because of the process I go through during the photographic journey: I photograph an image at a certain spot in the panorama frame. The other 6 spots are then unfilled and are then filled in on location. I let my visual sense lead me to fill in the next spot from which -by the seventh image- a composition is created that is right and reflects my experience of the whole.

Origin of my image form:
I have been experimenting with multiple photography since 1993. That is: from the experience of photographing, creating multiple exposures within a photographic framework. To work out this form in the best possible way, he constructs his own camera, which makes it possible to merge images from different locations and times into a new image. These images are therefore not digitally post-processed. The panoramas are created during a 'photo journey' in which Bob gives his impressions of the landscape their own place in a new context. The composition is created by reacting to the previous image to build up the representation.