With an impressive diameter of six meters, the “World’s Biggest Photoglobe” is on display in passage 4/5 of the trade fair grounds in Cologne – as one of the highlights of photokina 2010. Visitors should not miss this opportunity, because the globe is unique and offers a very special visual experience – unlike anything else the world has seen before. But there is much more. In the action zone below the “World’s Biggest Photoglobe”, photokina visitors can borrow cameras for photo-shooting, use printers and kiosks to print digital photo data on paper, and bring empty walls to life with their snapshots. Furthermore, visitors can upload their own pictures on the Photoglobe portal www.photoglobus.prophoto-online.de – and there is also a raffle with the chance to become a lucky winner.
Yet more good news: the organizers of the Photoglobe initiative will continue to operate the bilingual portal www.photoglobus.prophoto-online.de and they are asking users to upload even more new pictures, which highlight the innovative potential of photographers worldwide. Let’s be philosophical: during and after photokina 2010 is before photokina 2012, so we can wait and see what sort of world record might be set in two year’s time with thousands and thousands of pictures.
The Photoindustrie-Verband as well as its member companies and the Prophoto GmbH have with their „Photoglobus“ community initiative at photokina 2010 set themselves the ambitious target of achieving a world record. Every keen photographer is invited to take part in the world record attempt and to upload images on the theme of „My World“ to the portal www.photoglobus.prophoto-online.de, which has been specially set up for the community initiative.
In order to achieve the world record, more than 100,000 photos will be required. Snapshot your way to the world record at photokina 2010.You can upload your photos which will be a part of the Photoglobus – the world’s biggest globe with a diameter of six meters.
The biggest globe in the world, on view at photokina 2010, visualises emotionally and in sustainable form the main theme of photokina as the World of Imaging. Photoglobus also represents global visual communications using numerous social networks which with the millions of images which are uploaded every day document the attitudes to life of everybody and anybody without respect to national frontiers.
The Photoglobus will be one of the highlights of photokina 2010.