Video: “Know Where You Are” is a stunning project by photographer Seth Taras
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
American photographer Seth Taras has created an interesting project called Know Where You Stand as part of an advertising campaign for one of the historical TV channels. The project is based on combining documentary photographs with modern photographs taken from the same position. The resulting collages look pretty impressive.
Here, a young man is walking with a dog, perhaps without suspecting that, literally, "behind his back" in 1937, the notorious Hindenburg airship crashed while landing after another transatlantic flight. Then out of ninety-five passengers, only thirty-five managed to escape. In another photo, a young woman and her little daughter are looking for shells on a beach in the French commune of Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer. They hardly guess that on June 6, 1944, American soldiers landed on this very place during a military operation … Seth's photographs make you look differently at ordinary tourist places, at the usual routes of townspeople … Such pictures can affect the perception of history - what used to be seemed like distant events from the past, now it looks frighteningly relevant.
The channel's advertising campaign was aimed at awakening people's interest in history, in realizing the historical significance of the place in which they live. “It's easy to forget about the people who lived in this very place before us and, perhaps, walked along these very streets,” the channel representatives explain.
Seth Taras is a self-taught photographer, born into a family of artists. The authoritative German magazine Luerzer's Archive named him one of the best in the profession. The photographer received the Cannes Golden Lion for the “Know where you are standing” project, and the advertising campaign itself was translated into 30 languages and broadcast in 130 countries.
Combining a photo taken many years ago with a photo taken today is an interesting trend observed among modern photographers. For example, Russian photographer Sergei Larenkov has created stunning collages, "reviving" the ghosts of the Second World War in his photo project.
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