Our dramatic 12-foot panoramic photos of occupation are available for you to download, print at lost cost, and display at your event. The print-ready photos include explanatory captions. Alternatively, you can view the photos online. See instructions below.
Instructions to download and print the panoramic photos:
1. Click to download the following photo(s) to your computer. Wait while each downloads completely. Each may take a few minutes:
—Download “Israeli Wall cuts through Jerusalem. Panoramic from Abu Dis”.
—Download “Massive Israeli settlement in West Bank. Panoramic of Ma’ale Adumim”.
2. If your browser settings allow you to see the downloaded images, you’ll notice that the images are print-ready rotated; don’t change this.
3. Copy the downloaded image file to a flash drive. (For example, in your browser, use: right-click -> Save Image As…) Make sure you have captured the complete images by checking their file size. The wall photo size is 16,454KB and the settlement photo size is 15,785KB.
4. Call your local print shop to confirm that they have a black and white, “large format” printer capable of printing a 2-feet wide, 12-feet long print. Each print should cost less than $20. Most Staples and Fedex Kinkos can do this.
5. Take your flash drive with the downloaded image(s), along with the following instructions, to your print shop. Tell the person at the print shop:
—This file generates a very large print: 24 inches Wide X 144 inches Long (2 feet wide by 12 feet long).
—PRINTER to use: Black & White large format (not color, which is much more expensive).
—PAPER to use: 24-inch wide, NOT 36-inch wide.
—This .jpg file is already rotated.
—Expect the printed result to have high resolution, no smudges.
—Expect the cost to be less than $20 per print.
Instructions to view/explore/comment on the photos online:
Go to www.gigapan.org/gigapans/22001/. On the gigpan website you can: Use the pan and zoom tools, click on “Take a snapshot” to isolate part of the panoramic, add your comments to the snapshot, mouse-over existing snapshots to read captions/comments, read details under “about this panorama,”click the link to “View in Google Earth,” click “By: Palestine Panoramics” to see more of our photos.
About the photos:
My family and I traveled to Palestine/Israel in 2009. We’ve produced unique 12-foot long, high-definition panoramic photos, using a robotic gigapan (equipment and software recently developed at Carnegie-Mellon). In our prints you can see many details in Jerusalem, evidence of occupation, long sections of the apartheid wall from both sides. The photo taken from Abu Dis, a Palestinian village suburb at the edge of Jerusalem, shows Israel’s Wall cutting off Jerusalem from Abu Dis, and zigzagging to cut through the center of Abu Dis itself. The photo of Ma’ale Adumim shows the entire expanse of this massive Israeli settlement in the West Bank, built on land confiscated from Palestinians, accessed by an Israeli-only highway. Its population is 40,000. Display of the photos at public and private events has led to many conversations. We look forward to feedback from any of you who print and use these photos at your event. (Use the Comment button on this page) —Lou
