Joiners definition

Definition- In the early 1980s, Hockney began to produce photo collages  which he called "joiners," first of Polaroid prints and later of 35mm, commercially processed color prints.

Joiner Photography involves the use of two or more separately taken images of a single scene to create a larger one by physically overlapping them or by digitally merging them. It differs from montage photography in that it looks to expand the area of view of the photograph as opposed to insert several elements into a given picture frame. From this point on there are many directions to take the image in terms of shape, viewpoints, subject, narrative, time and style. These all involve more personal choices by the creator and provide the potential for a more intimate and individually driven photograph.

This is one of David hockneys joiner photos,  It looks like it has been taken in a european country, as the roads are made of that unstable pebble stone and the cars look quite dated, but that depends on when the photo was taken. This photo is interesting because it looks lie the photo has been taken sat slightly different times of the day as some of the leafs are a darker colour compared to others. This could be from the shadows casted or it could be different rates of exposure in the photos, as some of them could have been taken with different shutter speeds and aperture. The thing that i dislike about the photo is it has some blue/grey sections in it and they let down the photo as they take some attention away from the actual main joiner, but if that space was filled with a colour the same as the pavement then it wouldn't draw an attention away. To improve this photo i would try and fill in the blue spaces with the colour of the pavement of just take some more photos around that bit so that it actually fits into the rest of the photo and the scene. Also i would add some more stuff into the photo so that it has more going on and so there's more to look at. I would add some people into so that the photo looks more natural and more like street photography, because at the moment it looks like its been set up to look deserted and like theres nothing actually going on. The problem with people being in the joiner is that it'll be harder to join all of the photos together as people are quite small and the cars already looked really jumbled, so people would be worse. The photographer could take the photos of a bigger size so that it would be easier to join up, but then it would decrease the effect that all the little separate photos give. David Hockney did influence my photographs a little bit as i did take them mostly of the outside of buildings and trees as i find these the most interesting scenes for joiners because you can find a lot going on.