Julian Sansum

Manhattan on Thames

Year: 2025 Medium: Archival Giclee Print Size: 153.5 cm x 77 cm This Print and this Certificate are each certified through a hologram carrying a unique number.  This Archival Giclee Print is part of a limited edition of 25 153.5 x 77 cm prints plus one artist’s proof all signed by the artist. The artist reserves the right to use the image in other forms of media, including but not limited to online, competitions and books of collections. Released in March 2025 on Hahnemuhle PhotoRag Metallic 340 gsm paper. Printed using pigment ink from Canon on a Canon printer. In the artists words: I hadn’t intended to take this photo. I had intended to take a photo of St Paul’s and the City of London from the viewpoint in Greenwich Park. There are eight protected views of St Paul’s Cathedral in London. These are enshrined in law and are generally small hills where there has been a direct view of St Paul’s for many years. Nothing it allowed to be constructed in front of St Paul’s on the sight line (albeit if you go to Richmond Park you will notice a building was constructed in the Olympic Park area miles behind St Paul’s which does spoil that view somewhat). As I walked towards the St Paul’s viewpoint I couldn’t help but notice the incredible view of the ‘new city’ or the Manhattan on Thames that has been constructed in Docklands. It completely blew me away. I then realised that I could make an interested scene by including the old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in the foreground. I wanted to blow this up as large as possible and found the metallic paper best showed off the office towers in the background. I took multiple exposures and merged them for the best detail. I stood on the Greenwich Meridian to take this, one foot on either side of the metallic line placed outside the old observatory. I would love to tell you that the whole picture is bisected by the meridian and based on the placement of the line I thought that would be the case, however when I checked the maps it appears the line is misleading and doesn’t point at the centre of my photo, instead it forms a boundary on the right hand side.