Back to the Future

Wow...this is probably the most simple portraiture I have seen, but some of the most effective. Irina Werning is a photographer who loves to look at other peoples’ old photographs, but instead of just admiring the photos, she wonders how people would feel and look if they were to reenact the same photos today.

The project, called 'Back To The Future' features a series of her photographs of individuals and groups of people reenacting a photograph that was taken in their past (usually quite a few years ago).

The results are beautiful. You can tell just from one photo that a lot of work has been put into research, locations and props for each shoot – even time and money has been put towards finding the same (or similar) object in the background, such as wallpaper, curtains or costume.

I absolutely love these images, and the fact that each element of the photos are reenacted makes them even more creative and interesting. I like the way that she has chosen a variety of different backgrounds and ages of the people. This definitely makes the project more interesting than choosing a lot of the same kind of pictures. Anyway, I really do like this project and am looking into doing my own version in the near future!