Gallery: Take a Trip Through the Wild New World of Photo-Viz
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Photoviz is a new book out by infographic maker Nicholas Felton. It's a compilation of works from a new breed of data visualization, that come in the form of photographs. This sequence, by Agustin Muñoz, was done in post-processing to show the chronology and motion of a surfer.
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Fong Qi Wei's works are what Felton calls "Clockworks." They use a collage technique to document the passing of time, as seen in light throughout the day.
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Peter Funch takes many unstaged photographs, and then creates composties of them, in one photograph.
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Pelle Cass takes multiple photos at one location and then edits them to proliferate the characters and "exaggerate chaos."
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Alejandro Almaraz layers semi-transparent photos of different heads of state from different countries.
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To capture the entirety of a church's interior architecture at once, photographer Richard Silver used the panoramic feature on his camera to pan all the way around. It mimics the feeling of swiveling your head to see all the details around you.
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Jenny Odell works with publicly available satellite imagery to sticht together neatly organized, fictional aerial shots of the earth's landscape.
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Paula Zuccotti's portraits, of all the objects her subjects touched throughout one day, differ from the rest of the photo-viz projects in the book, because they're not processed or manipulated. But they're incredibly informative: they illustrate part of a person's day-to-day life, in vivid detail.
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Alejandro Durán's "Washed Up" series is similar. He fills landscapes with trash to visualize the potential effects of pollution.
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In "Once Salone: Freetown Then and Now," Babak Fakhamzadeh takes postcards from colonial-era Freetown, Sierra Leone, and photographs them atop images of the same Freetown location as it appears today.
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Long before Photoshop, Gjon Mill captured Picasso tracing his own drawings in mid-air, with a flashlight. It's both an artowrk, and an image that shows the artist's process.
