Image Bank - Multiple Imagery

Multiple Imagery's are pieces that tell a story through more than just one picture. The photographer takes a range of different pictures of one thing and then merges them together separated by a thin white grid to mask together one overall picture. It's extremely creative and so many different things can be done with this topic. Below are six pictures demonstrating multiple imagery. If one photograph can speak a thousand words, then nine or twelve etc. can speak thousands more. In my opinion, multiple imagery is a topic that can makes a boring photograph interesting. You don't have to focus on just one subject, instead you can take pictures of small sections to then physically create the image. Multiple imagery could also perhaps show more than one facet of an object, place or person.

This multiple imagery piece has been created by the photographer taking a picture with the frame filled by two different block colours. They've then slid across the wall and taken another one similar with a different colour. From this picture I assume that the original image would have been one long landscape brick wall painted all kinds of different colours. The grid  breaks up the length of the wall, making it more like a multicoloured building from somewhere like Tobermory or buildings by the beach.

This piece portrays a journey of someone through only nine pictures. At first they start off standing up straight on a patch of grass. Five pictures into this piece and they're half way under the ground. By the 9th picture the model is nowhere to be seen, only a dark black oval shaped pile of mud in the centre of that specific picture. This multiple imagery demonstrates the process of someone being burried or sinking which could be interpreted as a deep meaning.

This is just a simple picture of an old fashioned telephone demonstrated through 25 individual pictures. This doens't include the white grid so it makes the picture look more like a constructed piece rather than separate sections of the subject.

Here the model has posed in three different styles: facing left, straight on and right. As a finished piece it has been built up as one single picture of what could look like three different models, when in fact it's just one person. That's the ability of a multiple image.

This would have to be my favourite multiple imagery piece; it's so incredibly detailed and perfected with precise pictures. The photographer has intentionally zoomed in on certain areas of the woman's limbs and placed them all around her original body to make it look as though she's performing all of these crazy actions when really she only has two feet and two hands, not ten. An interpretation that could be revealed from this piece would be the photographer attempting to apply the sea life to human beings, as the model looks like a crazy octupus which would be impossible for her to look like in real life naturally. I think this would make a fantastic picture for a dance agency advertising themselves.

This multiple imagery is humorous as well as fascinating. It demonstrates all kinds of different mouth poses that many people act. It includes people of difference races to portray equality and perhaps women aswell as men also; it's difficult to tell a man from a woman by a mouth apart from facial hair. Overall this image is clever and amusing and a different example of multiple imagery, as instead of one mouth having an assortment of pictures taken from it, a variety of different mouths have been used to create this composition.