The Daily Buzz‘Back to the Future’ photos perfectly recreate past moments
An Argentinian photographer has people reliving snapshots of their pasts, recreating every colour, every prop, every expression in a series that has taken her around the world.
Irina Werning says her project, entitled Back to the Future, was born from her curiosity about old photos, though she calls it something else on her website.
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I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today… Two years ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future.
Werning recreates baby pictures, school photos and moments of domestic life, often based on photos from decades prior, even when that involves posing everyone who appeared in the original image.
In an ESPN story for which she recreated professional athletes' childhood photos, Werning said she often makes clothes and props herself, sometimes spending weeks preparing one shot.
The most striking, perhaps, are the photos that document the greatest number of years because the similarities remind us how elements of the past endure, even over long periods of time.
Bill Gates and his fellow co-founder Paul Allen had such a moment this week when they recreated a photo taken of the two of them 30 years ago, standing by several old computers.
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The photos taken over the course of the project so far document residents of Buenos Aires, Berlin, New York, Paris and New Delhi, among others. Werning says she is now in search of old photos from Korea, Taiwan and Tokyo.
Those unwilling to revisit their goofy past selves need not apply.
