The Sum of 10,000 Parts

Japanese artist Sohei Nishino has a novel method for creating his diorama maps: It involves a lot of blisters. For each of his commisions, Nishino flies into a new city and spends months wandering its streets armed with a camera, dozens of rolls of film, and a route-tracking GPS. Afterward, he travels back to Japan, prints contact sheets of his photos, and cuts out each shot by hand. The images are pasted together into a vertigo-inducing map comprising the architecture and residents of the city.