The Big Picture - West Midlands

The Big Picture takes shape as the shortlisted images for the record-breaking mosaic are revealed

With a month to go, and over 110,000 pictures received from across the West Midlands, we can reveal the eight photos in the running to form the final image of the world’s largest photo mosaic.

All 110,000 images sent in from the public will be used to create a huge, record-breaking photo mosaic, the size of three tennis courts, to be unveiled outside Birmingham’s Millennium Point on Saturday 23 August. The mosaic will create the image of one of the final eight shortlisted photos, but the special picture will be kept under tight wraps until the grand unveiling.

See, and discuss, all eight shortlisted images.

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Shortlist annouced on Midlands Today

The team at BBC Midlands Today have been wonderfully supportive of the Big Picture all the way through the project, and have done a number of great features on photos that people have added.

On Tuesday they visited Millennium Point, venue for the World Record attempt and some of the mosaic workshops, and also featured the shortlisted photos.

You can still watch the programme online:

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World Record Blog: Abigail Corfan, Projects and Events Officer

Abigail Corfan is Projects and Events Officer at Audiences Central (who are running the Big Picture) and is one of the team busy planning the logistics for the world’s largest photo mosaic. This immense task requires a lot of planning and even more man power!

This week I’m busy trying to recruit volunteers to help build the individual panels that make up the final mosaic. The way it will work is that all 112,896 photos are being printed onto self adhesive vinyl, and at the same time grids are being printed onto 288 plywood panels. The photos will be numbered to match the grid so that its just a process of sticking every photo in the right place. As you can imagine this is going to be time consuming so we are looking for keen Big Picture volunteers to assist with this record breaking task!

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World Record Blog: Helen Marshall, Lead Artist

Helen Marshall is a woman with a plan, she’s the artist that has got to take all of your photos and turn them into a World Record breaking mosaic. It’s a huge and complicated process, and we’re glad that she’s agreed to blog abut it for the Big Picture site. 

Once we had all the images, they were downloaded from the website and sent to Helen. From then on, it’s (almost!) all up to her…

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Lighting course for photographers

Creative Alliance are running a course for photographers who would like to know more about studio lighting. It will help with various studio and flash lighting techniques and be run by Richard Battye. It costs £180.

For more details  call Anna or Zara on 0121 224 7308 or email info@creativealliance.org.uk

Help make the World Record mosaic at Thinktank

From Monday 4 August until Thursday 21 August production of the individual panels that make up the mosaic will be taking place in Thinkspace, in Thinktank, Millennium Point, Birmingham. Every day (including weekends) the Big Picture team will be sticking photos onto the plywood panels that will create the final mosaic, using a simple grid system. There are 288 panels to be completed, so we need lots of volunteers to help us break that record!

If you would like to help with constructing the mosaic panels please email us at workshop@inthebigpicture.co.uk and let us know which day you can attend at Thinktank. All the panel building workshops will be running from 10am - 4pm, and we require a minimum commitment of 3 hours (either 10am -1pm or 1pm - 4pm). If you would like to volunteer please let us know by Friday 1 August, as you must be registered to volunteer.

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