Video: From "was" to "became". Photo-project Back to the Future by Irina Werning
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When reviewing a family album, we often laugh at some of the old photographs, teasing those who are captured in the picture next to them, they say, well, you have a physiognomy, but clothes - you can die with laughter! Surely each of us also has a lot of baby photos in diapers, or even naked on the bed, or a photo from the series "caught, naughty!" Recalling what was undeniably fun. Is it too weak to recreate that old photograph from childhood? Photo project Irina Werning from Buenos Aires, which is called Back to the future, is based on this very idea. She began collecting her project last year, inviting everyone to find a cool children's photo in their archive and reproduce that former reality, but with the participation of today's self. How people manage to find clothes and accessories that are identical to those they were wearing 20 or even more years ago is one of the mysteries of the Back to the Future project.
At first, Irina "amused herself" with her photographs and albums of her relatives and friends, and then moved on to friends, and even strangers who were interested in the project. Probably, some activists send her their pictures "then" and "now" for subsequent comparison and processing, so that the collection of diptychs is becoming more and more diverse.
You can view the entire selection of works from the Back to the Future series on Irina Werning's website. Or maybe someone wants to take part in the action?
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