Patrick Boyd studied holography at the Royal College of Art in London and went on to have residencies in the USA, Japan and Germany. He has made holograms using both pulse lasers for portraiture and the holographic stereogram technique, which uses a specially recorded photographic sequence to generate an animated 3D hologram.
 
‘Charles Bridge’ was recorded in Prague in 1991on a trip to visit Steve Weinstock, an American holographer who was living there at the time. The hologram features Weinstock and Boyd’s wife Susan along with some passing strangers.
 
The process involves photographing the scene with a hand held camera with a motor drive, while walking crablike from left to right, a motion that the viewer replays physically to see the  hologram in action. While Patrick was filming, Susan and Steve walked backwards, and, as Boyd pointed out, “Most stereograms have a start and a finish but this one works both ways.”
 
Boyd has continued to use the stereogram technique and last exhibited a body of holographic work at Gallery 286 in 2017. He currently works with lenticular photography, which he exhibited at 286 in 2020, and is engaged in an ongoing series of portraits of Hibakusha – the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki- in collaboration with @8000voices and ICAN UK.