{"id":16926,"date":"2011-07-05T13:17:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T19:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=16926"},"modified":"2011-07-01T16:42:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T22:42:24","slug":"photographer-irina-werning-joins-the-past-with-the-present-invites-people-to-go-back-to-their-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/photographer-irina-werning-joins-the-past-with-the-present-invites-people-to-go-back-to-their-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Irina Werning Joins the Past with the Present, Invites People to Go Back to their Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Irina Werning isn&#8217;t rummaging through your old photos to visit your past self, she&#8217;s taking pictures of your present recreating the past.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/irinawerning.com\/back-to-the-fut\/back-to-the-future\/\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20_marina-web_v2-e1309559127706.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"photo by Irina Werning: MARINA IN 1988 &amp; 2010, Buenos Aires\" width=\"600\" height=\"228\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16927\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today&#8230; A few months ago, I decided to actually do this. <a href=\"http:\/\/irinawerning.com\/back-to-the-fut\/back-to-the-future\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Believe it or not, this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/photographer-re-creates-30-year-old-scenes-with-original-models\/\">not the first time<\/a> we&#8217;ve run across past\/present photographic recreations.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1281305\/Paramedic-paparazzo-tracks-surprise-subjects-30-years-recreate-candid-snaps.html\" class=\"external external_icon\"> Photographer Chris Prosz<\/a> did a similar project across the pond. For an example on the strange side behold the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/mashup-monday-peacetimewartime-in-russia\/\">photographic time window of Sergei Larenkov .<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/irinawerning.com\/back-to-the-fut\/back-to-the-future\/\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20_oscar-web-e1309559203105.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo by Irina Werning | Oscar 1978 &amp; 2010, Buenos Aires \" width=\"600\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16928\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>Check out Irina&#8217;s website for <a href=\"http:\/\/irinawerning.com\/back-to-the-fut\/back-to-the-future\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">the full 2010 series<\/a> and the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/irinawerning.com\/un-misterioso-asesinato-en-buenos-aires-1940\/back-to-the-future-ii-2011\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">2011 series.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Irina Werning isn&#8217;t rummaging through your old photos to visit your past self, she&#8217;s taking pictures of your present recreating the past. I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,52,265],"tags":[4455,2131,4938,4454,4453,4336,4954,78],"class_list":["post-16926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-just-freaking-neat","category-photography","tag-back-to-their-future","tag-art-out-moments","tag-artist","tag-buenos-aires","tag-irina-werning","tag-photo-essay","tag-photography","tag-timey-wimey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16926"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16934,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16926\/revisions\/16934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}