So after having a good think about this project and where I was going with my initial ideas and where I could go with it from feedback, I decided I liked the idea of bringing old photographs into the equation, so I researched rephotography and I finally felt inspired!
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| http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/landscapes/what_are_rephotographs.shtml |
Whilst researching rephotography the work of Sergey Larenkov has been brought to the fore. This is a photographer who we have seen the work of briefly, but I have no looked into in greater detail. Below are some of his images. Larenkov overlays old and new photographs and uses computer software to give a glimmer of the past in the modern day image, by editing them in such a way that the old image appears to be coming through the new one. I find Larenkov's images extremely thought provoking, they draw the viewer to think about history in a different way; by seeing it embedded in the present. My particular favourites are the images that he has integrated with those scenes from ww2 as they evoke more emotion in my opinion, given the fact that we all know how atrocious the war was.
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