Photograblog: Irina Werning's Back to the Future project

Food for thought!

"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... A few months ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future".

South American photographer Irina Werning completed a personal project last year titled 'Back to the Future', in which she had her friends pose for recreations of photographs from her childhood.

How do you think she managed to recreate not only the poses and settings, but the visual nature of the recreated photographs- the colour balance, softness, tone etc?

Irina is a very talented photographer indeed! It takes a lot of skill to recreate photos to the quality that she has achieved. I dont think it would have been to difficult to recreate poses, i mean, she had the photo to show the model and they could try their best interpretation of it, and if it was not exact, she could help them to achieve the look better.

I really have no idea how she could have possibly taken the photos in the same spot, this really amazed me! What if there were totally random people living in the house?! I am really surprised at this.

Another thing that is hard to explain is the visual nature of the recreated photos. She must be a pro on photoshop! I mean, i know the tools to use, but how she got it down perfectly is unbelievable.