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he created a monumental column for One Blackfriars. ... Cast in aluminium, the textured surface of the sculpture echoes the delicate edges of each photographic print.

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It’s also a tribute to the rarity of the tangible photograph, and a comment on our image saturated world where over 1.8 billion photographs are uploaded online every day.  While Khan’s sculpture is not intended as criticism, it aims to draw our awareness to a changing relationship with making images and how our cameras have come to replace our eyes.

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The towering structure stands at 8 metres tall, with the blocks increasing in size in relation to the dimensions of standard photographic prints.

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The angle tho photo is taken at creates the illusion that the two buildings on either side are leaning on the sculpture, this could be to represent the foundations and support of someones life

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the piece also represents the more and more digital influence art and photography, and remind us of the beauty of a printed photograph.

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The overall sculpture appears to contain 65,000 pieces of work, this is due to the height of the stacked casted papers and the ridged edges which represent each individual page. It has a very unique shape (upside-down pyramid) which fascinates the audience because of the balance. This could also capture how Idris Khan started out. the smaller pieces of work towards the bottom represents how each artist/photographer starts of small before growing and impacting the world more significantly.

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article- Digital images create communities, carry forward political messages, and inform and create defining artworks.  The physical imprint of the digital photograph is immense but unseen.

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But he could only find 380 photographs from her life, and when he built the sculpture, My Mother stood almost 16 times smaller than 65,000 Photographs, at 53.3cm. The contrast between five years of a life with digital media and a whole lifetime without it is a testament to the evolution of digital media and humanity’s use of it to document our existence.

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i see the artist displaying how instead of seeing and living in the moment, we take pictures of these core memories/moments. Perhaps questioning if when we photograph these precious moments, do they lose value?

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5,000 Photographs represents every image that Khan has taken on his phone over the past five years.

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“There is this idea that cameras have replaced our eyes; we want to photograph everything before we even see it."

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Abstract shapes create a different feeling for each individual. The shapes and angles of the buildings creating an image which is out of the ordinary

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'Public art is a different kind of engagement to going into a gallery space. It is for the unexpected viewer'

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“It has always been about trying to change the photographic practice into something that looked like painting or drawing,”

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their dimensions representing the standard sizes of photographic prints.

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“There is this idea that cameras have replaced our eyes; we want to photograph everything before we even see it. We are all guilty of it”

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“I’m delighted I can place something that will invite viewers to reflect on passing time,”

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“Public art is a different kind of engagement to going into a gallery space. It is for the unexpected viewer,”

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"i feel like there is something quite melancholic about a photograph, and i think by layering, that reinforces that quality."

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380 out of the 65000 images were of his mother who passed away nine years prior to the completion of the sculpture

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​‘ways photography could not represent my eye but my hand’

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“I’m not showing the pictures themselves, you’re just seeing the edges of the paper. It is about using the physicality of a photograph to show time.”

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stands 8.2 metres tall between the shiny glass windows of new-build developments, the effect of its shape and form is both moving and daunting. The sculpture started as a stack of 65,000 sheets of paper, with its shape — almost like a reverse-pyramid — formed out of the dimensions of standardised photo prints. Khan then pulled and pushed the sheets of paper to create a ridged effect on its sides, before sand-casting and forming it in aluminium.

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location- One Blackfriars in London

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The idea of layering is present, similar to most of his work except this is physical representation of layering

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before making this piece, idris created a similar piece of work from his mother's photographs, named 'my mother.'

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standing next to it u would find the sculpture intimidating and powerful because of size compared to us

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Over the course of the last five years, Idris Khan has taken 65,000 images 

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Over the course of the last five years, Idris Khan has taken 65,000 images 

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pictures that have been taken from his phone over 5 years of his life all into one sculpture

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This sculpture was created by forming an upside pyramid using a stack of 65,000 sheets of paper, with its shape it formed out of the dimensions of standardised photo prints. Khan pulled and pushed the sheets of paper to create a ridged effect on its sides, before sand-casting and forming it in aluminium.

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idris' personal archive of images from the past six years, some 65,000 images. Represents the volume of photography in modern age.

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“It is about using the physicality of a photograph to show time”

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“It’s quite a moving thing to think that this was five years of my life,”

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sculpture by idris khan