Do you ever look at a picture of you as a child, focus on the setting, on your expression, and wonder what you were feeling at the time?… or perhaps remember the experience and long to conjure it up again?
Buenos Aries based photographer Irena Werning is doing just this.
She will take an image of your youth, and recreate it. The people in the images below ARE THE SAME PEOPLE. These are re-creations of exact moments in time, real slices of life. What does it mean for them? For each subject, i can imagine it’s different. Typically the young are entitled and unburdened with the drama of ‘real life’. This experience affords many the chance to step back into that moment, and experience or try to draw on the emotions from the original moment in the picture. From my understanding, this started as a personal project, and word of mouth turned it into something of a sensation.
When viewing this video on the subject, I saw a comment from a youtube viewer. I felt it really expressed what I felt when first stumbling upon these images… (in the May Oprah Mag)
“…her photos strikes a chord in me because these are people from their childhood: everything’s unknown, life hasn’t yet been experienced. and then to see the same people be adult and recreate the settings, highlights the original childhood innocence. but we all know the innocence is lost and gone, life has now been lived – and ironically it’s everything that happened in between the photos, that makes me love them. the absence of all that happened in between the photos are what completes them.”
Have a look at some and let us know what you think
NOTE: this is not how Irene displays the images. She typically has the photos side by side. Since our specialty is creating animations for print, we took her original pictures and had a little fun with them.
Quite honestly, these types of pictures are PERFECT for our technology. We are always telling people to consider images of before / after to use in their animated photo gifts…
It would be an understatement to say that this project has snowballed for Irene. It has become her calling card, and if the Oprah part didn’t catch your attention already, it has been written up in many publications, and the images have been pinned endless amount of times.
This has become so popular that Irene was invited by Disneyland Paris to come and do a bunch of pictures for their guests. See the video:
One of our graphic artists, had a little fun with these images, a depiction of 3 young girls recreated into 3 young women…
Comment below your thoughts - eerie or cool?