'Diorama Map' of world's big cities02. Oct2012
We remember the cities we visited by their landmarks and their unique urban layout. When it comes to speak about the se cities we speak in terms of landmarks and places we loved to spent time, be it a walk, a stand still experience or a passing by through it.
Japanese photographer Sohei Nishino decided to document the great cities he visited during his travels by capturing on film these landmarks and the entire city by compiling together the massive quantity of photographs resulted. He entitled the series: Diorama Map. The result is a collage which shows the photographer's vision, how he remembers the places he visited, a photomontage based on the city major landmark.
Diorama Map is an ongoing project. So far, there are thirteen city collages available but Nishino plans on continuing his traveling photography series.
The creation of a Diorama Map takes the following method; Walking around the chosen city on foot; shooting from various location with film; pasting and arranging with enormous mound of pieces. Consisted from thirteen cities, Diorama Map is still ongoing and will be developed in cities all over the world in the future.
via MyModernMet
See more city collages on Sohei Nishino website
Because Sohei Nishino cannot show the city as he remembers in a fair number of photography - like we usually do - he needs to spend months for just a single work. It takes tens of thousands of photographs that he’s taken walking in every corner of the city. 'Diorama Maps' are “not a precise google map, but presents the key elements of the city in a form closer to my own memory and observation.”---
Detail of the Galata Tower from the bird's eye map collage of the Istanbul city.---
His latest map is of the city of Bern, Switzerland, where he spent almost the first 6 months of 2012 taking pictures. His map is currently on display at the Festival des Arts Visuels de Vevey through September 30.In the image is 10,000 contact sheets collaged together to create map of Bern.
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What Nishino says about 'Diorama Map' project:"The narrative behind the Diorama Map series is the fluid nature of memory and the setting is always a city.
The creation of a Diorama Map takes the following method; Walking around the chosen city on foot; shooting from various location with film; pasting and arranging of the re-imagined city from my memory as layered icons of the city."
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"The Diorama Map, which is almost a bird's eye view of the city, is not a precise google map, but presents the key elements of the city in a form closer to my own memory and observation. Therefore, every single element amongst the enormous mound of pieces reflects my own act of photographic creation itself.Diorama Map series is ongoing and will be developed in cities all over the world in the future."
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"These are my personal memories of a city. The photographs I take and the way I assemble them are influenced by what I personally experienced: what I saw, whom I met and even what I ate" - Sohei Nishino in an interview in Japantimes 
Contact sheets spread on the floor.Photo from Sohei Nishino blog, a very intersting place where you can take a closer look on the work and personality of the Sohei Nishino.
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Sohei Nishino at work.Photo from his personal blog.
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Sohei Nishino was born in Hyogo in 1982. Since he was a university student of Osaka University of Arts, he started his series Diorama Map which is created from his memory as layered icons of the city.Since selected as an Excellence Award of Canon New Cosmos Photography Award, he has participated in several group shows including his solo exhibition. His works are shown at Paris Photo 2009 where he received critical acclaim by many collectors and attracts people all over the world." - words taken from Sohei Nishino website.
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