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British Smiles Break Guinness World Record
HP Press Release
Smiles from across the UK have created the world’s largest photo exhibition, featuring over 33,000 smiles.
LONDON, August 26, 2005 – BRITISH smiles are today being celebrated as the UK claims another Guinness World Record with the opening of the largest photo exhibition ever.
33,401 smiling photos have been donated to the record attempt by people across the UK. These will feature in the exhibition at the Royal College of Art 26 – 29 August 2005.
But smiling most are the children reliant on the work of NCH, the children’s charity. For every smile photo donated to the record attempt, the NCH received 25p from Hewlett Packard. This money will be spent on projects to help disadvantaged children across the UK.
Smile donations varied heavily between regions, and although Manchester was named “Smiling capital of the UK” in a study earlier this year1, they were beaten by Hull who topped the table for most smiling pictures donated to the record attempt (2300).
Ian Whittaker, HP Vice President, Imaging and Printing Group UK & Ireland, said “This record proves that British people are still great smilers, no matter what. Hopefully the British smile will become as famous as the British stiff upper lip.”
Claire Tickell, NCH Chief Executive, added: “The money British smiles have raised in this World Record success will help NCH to give more children a future worth smiling about.”
Celebrities have also been keen to add their famous smiles to the record attempt, with Ken Livingstone, Mary Nightingale, Sian Lloyd, Dermot Monaghan and Brian Conley all uploading private pictures at http://www.hp.com/uk/smile to help the charity.
People can even still be part of the exhibition, with cameras and photo-printers on hand at the Royal College of Art to allow visitors to take, print and put up their smiling pictures.
The exhibition will be open to the public at Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2EU, 26 – 29 August 2005. Opening times are between 10am and 5pm.
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#1 Ram
Wished that all those people could have share thier smiles online at Smikioo. It would be a great way to find out and bridge self-perception and public perception.
12:26 pm - Thursday, September 21, 2006
#2 Milind Verlekar
"Forts Of King Shivaji" set a new Guinness World Record For The Largest Photographic Exhibition of the world..
Mumbai, July 30 (UNI) A photo exhibition on the forts of Chhatrapati Shivaji, held in Pune recently, has found mention in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest such photo display.
In the Pune exhibition, as many as 40,150 photographs of the 250 forts were displayed during June 28 to July 1.
The exhibition was hosted by rajashivaji.com, of which Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray is considered the guardian.
This is my 'gurudakshina' to Babasaheb Purandare and Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, the two great people who kept the name of Chhatrapati Shivaji alive,
The certificate issued by the Guinness Book of World Records was shown to the media by Shivshahir Babasaheb Purandare and Raj Thackeray and its content was read out to mediapersons by Milind Verlekar, chief promoter of the website.
'This is my 'gurudakshina' to Babasaheb Purandare and Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, the two great people who kept the name of Chhatrapati Shivaji alive,' said Raj Thackeray while talking to reporters here today.
Mr Verlekar said, in all, they have got 1.5 lakh photographs of 250 forts, out of which 40 forts are coastal.
He said professional trekkers took these photographs. The trekkers were also trained in video shooting and GPS mapping of all the forts.
Some 1,22,455 people visited the exhibition, which itself is a record, he said and added that a team of 325 people worked on this project for 74 days.
Mr Verlekar said HP company had earlier set a record by holding a photo exhibition of 33,670 photographs of smiling British people. He said all the photos in that exhition were of 6 x 4 size, while all photos in the exhibition on Shivaji's forts were of 6 x 8 size.
He said about Rs 18 lakh had already been spent on photographs and that they are planning to upload a digital web encyclopedia on Shivaji soon. The total project cost may run up to Rs 1.5 crore, he added.
2:21 am - Tuesday, August 7, 2007