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I’m back from exhibiting at the 9th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition in China, and it was a pretty incredible experience. I was able to spend a few days travelling around Shanghai and the outskirts as well as spending time at the exhibition. We had a fairly hectic press conference, at which I discovered that I’m far happier on one side of the lens than the other! So somewhere I’m appearing on Chinese TV - but I’ve no idea where, so if anyone sees me, let me know! I’ve put a couple of Shanghai panoramas live on the Will Pearson site and will add more over the coming weeks and months.

I’ve also recently returned from California, where I was shooting some new Yungfuktoi fetish fashion images at an amazing underground location in Downtown LA. I’ll be adding those in the next few weeks.
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I have been selected to join some of the UK’s leading photographers at the 9th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition, which is a really exciting opportunity. The Yungfuktoi series (see image above) will be included in the exhibition, along with another collection of panoramas. I am travelling out to China for the exhibition this Summer, and hope to be able to do a new series in Shanghai while I’m there. I’ll update the blog with images from Shanghai as soon as I can, so watch this space.

We’re delighted to announce that the May issue of VR-MAG (the trade magazine for the virtual tour & panoramic industry) features an interview with Will Pearson.

To read the full article, please click here.

To go to the main VR MAG site, please follow this link.

All images © Will Pearson. Panoramas.dk site © Hans Nyberg.

This week, my panoramic photography and virtual tours are featured on the panoramas.dk site as the ‘Panorama of the Week’. This site is run by Hans Nyberg, a long-standing industry expert who features some of the best panoramic photography in the business. I’m thrilled to be included, and consider it a great compliment to have been featured.

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I spent much of November and early December shooting a commission for Siemens in the UK for their Annual Review of 2007. The shot above is one of the commissioned shots, from the offshore wind farm at Burbo Banks in Liverpool, I also shot plaster and glass factories, Great Ormond Street Hospital’s MRI unit, London Underground, the Welsh Assembly, a water treatment plant, the M25 and Siemens HQ in Surrey! They also chose to use a number of my existing shots. You can download a PDF of the Review here:

Link to Annual Review page on the Siemens website

And you can also see some of the other images on my portfolio pages.

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Whilst in California I visited the Burning Man Festival in Nevada - an event which is almost impossible to describe. Black Rock City is an entirely temporary city which springs up for a week for the Burning Man festival, and then vanishes, leaving no trace on the hard dust bed of the desert (the playa). The rule of the festival is that there are no spectators, everyone must participate, whether that’s though incredible constructions, outlandish costumes or performance skills - this creates a unique ‘anything goes’ atmosphere. This effect is increased by the other rule - no money must change hands; everyone tries to help out everyone else. And despite this sounding unworkable, it in fact works beautifully (though there were some tricky moments when my companion was asked to ‘drop’ certain items of clothing as ‘collateral’ to borrow a pen!).

This panorama shows the city seen from the desert side - you can see more panoramas of Burning Man and Black Rock City in my portfolio.

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In September, I travelled to California to shoot, and had the opportunity to travel around shooting my own stuff too. This panorama shows the view over Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

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More images here.

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‘Visit London’ bought in turf from the Vale of York and used it to turn Trafalgar Square into a green space for a couple of days. The first panorama shows the effects of the night before, with the grass covered in litter. In the second panorama, Will has used his expert retouching skills to clean up the turf so it is once again more village green than Glastonbury!

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A spherical panorama (or ’stereograph’) of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, commissioned by a property developer. Click on the image to see it bigger.

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On a recent trip to Chennai to shoot for a commission I managed to get a few days off to explore for myself. Chennai (formerly Madras) is an industrial city on the south-eastern Indian coast. Despite its commercial significance, it’s also well known for its cultural heritage and temple architecture. The coastline was badly hit by the 2004 Tsunami, with more than 200 dead, and many more displaced and losing their livelihoods. Chennai is a vibrant city, and it was a delight to spend a few days exploring.

See the interactive panoramas here

See the stills gallery here

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