Welcome to Grand Shots: Blurring the Lines Between Gaming and Art
Grand Shots started in December 2023 with a simple idea: wander through San Andreas with the in-game camera and
treat it as a real tool of expression.
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What began as casual snapshots quickly transformed into
an ongoing, serious artist project: a living archive where gaming nostalgia collides with contemporary art.
Every shot is approached as carefully as one taken in the real world, where every corner, every light, and every detail of the city can be rediscovered and reimagined through photography.
Since December 2023, the project has grown into a vast archive of photographs, shared in daily triptychs on Instagram: three-photo series that are carefully shot, edited, and paired with music that adds a living rhythm to the image. Each post feels alive, blending image and sound to create mood and atmosphere. Now the archive’s rolling deep—over a thousand shots stacked up—and it ain’t slowing down.
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Along the way, Grand Shots has opened its doors to fellow creators from different lanes—musicians, illustrators, and artists of all kinds are invited to collaborate, each bringing their own voice and perspective—turning the project into shared ground where styles and voices meet in the spirit of play and collaboration. This way, it’s shaping a collective space where gaming nostalgia meets contemporary art.
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At its heart, Grand Shots is about reimagining childhood games as spaces of art, memory, and connection. This project has always been by an artist, for artists. All of us vibing together, mixing nostalgia from the games we grew up on with the ways we make art today.
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And as it keeps growing, who knows? With its expanding archive and growing collaborations, the project is steadily moving toward larger ambitions. One day these streets might spill off the screen into real-world shows, exhibitions, installations, or new ways of bringing these virtual streets to life—whatever form the art calls for.
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The archive now holds more than a thousand photographs, building a visual record that documents San Andreas with the depth of a real city and the care of a true street photography practice.
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Stay tuned and keep your eyes on Grand Shots yo!
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Peace out!
– CJ
Vice City cinematic shots
Experimentation in GTA Vice City
As a lover of GTA Video Game Series,
we love the Vice City differently.
When the Grand Shots project first started we also wanted to capture that neon streets filled vibrant chaos, too!
Even though Vice City does not provide the same in-game camera tool like San Andreas, we decided to record videos around the City.
Tommy Vercetti started working as a videographer,
and we edited couple of Vice City Cinematic Shots.
It is not an ongoing project like San Andreas Street Photography
however this is Tommy!
He can return one day, who can say?
