Almost 113,000 photographs covering an area the size of three tennis courts have been collected together to make the world’s largest photographic mosaic.

Thousands of people from across the West Midlands sent in pictures connected with their daily lives.

Eight photographs were shortlisted to be picked as the top photograph from the total of 112,896 entries and the entire mosaic was formed to display the winning photograph, which was taken by Lucy Moore, 17, of Tipton, West Midlands, pictured left. She took a picture of a portrait taken in 1926 of her grandfather Arthur James Bunce, an amateur boxer, when he was also 17. Ms Moore said: “We all have that picture in our homes and my brother even has it tattooed on his back.”

The previous record was set in Shanghai, China, on April 27 and was made up of 105,196 individual photographs of babies.

The project, called The Big Picture, was funded by Arts Council England to encourage people to get involved in the arts through photography. Kerry Endsor, manager of The Big Picture, said: “When we first started, the record was much lower – about 60,000 photos. Luckily for us, we got about 6,000 in the first few days and that reaction continued.”

The new record was confirmed by Guinness World Records.

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