YEAR: 2016
CATEGORY: Photography, Visual Communication
ROLE: Concept, Digital Collage, Image Editing
CLIENT / TYPE: Personal Gift
TOOLS / MEDIUM: Photography, digital image editing, composing
OUTPUT: Large-scale wall print, 2 × 1.2 m

Leipzig Panorama

On a quick trip through the most vibrant and everchanging city of Saxony

Leipzig Panorama is a surreal digital collage that turns the city into an imaginary landscape. Created as a personal birthday gift, the work brings together well-known buildings, landmarks, architectural fragments and smaller urban details into one condensed panoramic view. Instead of portraying Leipzig as a realistic cityscape, the image rearranges the city into a playful, exaggerated and almost dreamlike composition.

The project is based on the idea of taking a quick visual journey through one of Saxony’s most vibrant and constantly changing cities. Leipzig’s identity is shaped by many different layers: historic architecture, cultural institutions, newer buildings, public spaces, monuments, fragments of memory and everyday urban scenes. In the panorama, these elements are removed from their original positions and placed into a new relationship with one another. The result is a city that feels familiar and strange at the same time.

This sense of surreality stems from the tension between recognisable reality and subjective interpretation. Some buildings can be clearly identified, while others appear as part of a larger fictional terrain. The city becomes less of a map and more of a personal memory image: a compressed version of Leipzig that is shaped by affection, exaggeration and visual association.

Beyond the major attractions, the composition also invites viewers to look for smaller details. The image works almost like a visual puzzle, encouraging people to search through the panorama, recognise places, discover hidden references and construct their own version of the city from the fragments provided. There may be no Waldo hidden in the picture, but the act of looking closely becomes part of the work.

The final collage was produced as a large-scale wall print measuring two by one point two metres. At this size, the image becomes immersive: less a simple city view than a walk-through of memories, landmarks and imagined urban connections. Leipzig Panorama is both a personal gift and a playful portrait of a city whose identity is constantly being rearranged by history, architecture and individual perspective.