irina werning: back to the future
‘back to the future’ series by irina werning (above) ‘cecile in 1987 & 2010’, france image © irina werning
compelled by the qualities and narrative-charged nature of vintage images, buenos aires-based photographer irina werning has started a series of portraits fittingly titled, ‘back to the future’. largely consisting of diptychs, the project has subjects re-enact a childhood photograph from their past in their current image today. the result is a surreal, time-traveling carbon copy that manages to capture a sense of the subject’s biography.
alarmingly detailed in props, image quality, colour balance and expressions, the haunting portraits are at once nostalgic and charming, illustrating that – even with the inevitable effects of time – we are who we are; people change, but they don’t change.
to see more from the series, click through to werning’s website here.
‘pancho in 1983 & 2010’, buenos aires image © irina werning
‘ian in 1984 & 2010’, london image © irina werning
‘la negra 1980 & 2010’, buenos aires image © irina werning
‘lucia in 1956 & 2010’, buenos aires image © irina werning
‘mechi in 1990 & 2010’, buenos aires image © irina werning
‘lali in 1978 & 2010’, buenos aires image © irina werning
‘nico in 1986 & 2010’, buenos aires image © irina werning
‘my parents in 1970 & 2010’, buenos aires image © irina werning
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Beautiful & moving!
I want to do this!!
lovely ! ! !
muy bueno!!
this is beautiful but stolen, saw it at an exhibition in Berlin a couple of years ago!
I don’t care, its very nice!
wonderful
Haunting indeed!
ke chiiiiido!!!!!
I love it, it makes you nostalgic about years passed.
very touching it does get the point across!
soooo nice
@Nathalie
its not necessary stolen. two people can have a similar or same idea, if you prefer. That is proven daily. Many people choose to do exact same activities at the same time without knowing of each others existence.
Irina Werning didnt necessarily stole the idea. It might have come to her aswell.
Of course, this doesnt mean that people never steal ideas, but you still must know, that one of the first things art professor tell their students is that their first idea is the idea everyone will get, so dig deeper.
Indeed I don’t think this is stolen either… I also saw a similar idea applied to the idea of the dissapearance. The photographer took again pictures of people dissapeared during the 70 in Argentina trying to get as close as possible to the original picture, but without the missing person.
how do they get almost exactly the same clothes in a way bigger size 20 years later? it’s unnatural!
Yoshinari Nishio,Japanese Artist.
He has similar projects.
http://yoshinarinishio.net/
amazing!
Fantastic!! The most interesting & well executed concept I’ve seen in ages…..
If you like these, check out Bobby Neel Adams work, ttp://www.bobbyneeladams.com/.
I also thought everything was stolen when I saw it twice, but when I start seeing my ideas on the web, when I saw that my idea from 5 minutes ago is already produced, than I realized that human creativity works very similar sometimes..this is perfectly normal 🙂
i like these photos, they are warm and beautiful 🙂
great idea !
Here is a Brazillian artista that does the same thing, Carla Borba. Ideas are in the air.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlaborba/
most beautiful.
thanks.
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