Festival of Lights projection on Berliner DOM

Does it get any bigger? A rather unusually big publication even for a seasoned photographer: Approx 9,000m sq projection of images onto the Berliner Dom with photos from Oliver Brenneisen for the Festival of Lights. The festival organisers approached Oliver Brenneisen to participate in the illumination of Berlin´s largest church building. The 12 nights festival is one of the largest illumination events in the world and attracts around 2 million visitors. Massive worldwide media coverage carries the visual from Berlin around the world.

A total of 42.000 Watts of light source made the photos shine on the building front. High resolution scans from medium format slides were used as source files which got split up into six pieces: One for each of the six massive projectors that then together formed one seamless projection visual.

Image gallery from the Festival of Lights by Oliver Brenneisen

Festival of Lights Berlin. Projection by Oliver Brenneisen. Almond blossoms from Mallorca.

Projection of almond blossom on the Berliner Dom for the Festival of Lights by photographer Oliver Brenneisen

Festival of Lights, Berliner Dom, Fernsehturm in the background. Projection by Oliver Brenneisen

Six 7kw projectors where used for the Berliner Dom. Here photographer Oliver Brenneisen checking slides for the projection.

The original photo was split up into six individual slide for each of the projectors.

The original photo taken by Oliver Brenneisen in 2009. Almond blossoms from Mallorca.

Fig leafs by Oliver Brenneisen, projection on Berliner Dom for Festival of Lights.

Red chocolate lips by catalan star pastelero Christian Escriba from Barcelona, photographed by Oliver Brenneisen, projected on Berliner Dom during Festival of Lights.