Photographer Travels Through Time By Inserting Herself Into Her Childhood Photos
London-based Japanese photographer Chino Otsuka explores the harsh truth of time lapse in her highly nostalgic and heartwarming series “Imagine Finding Me”. Otsuka took old photos from her childhood and adolescence and put pictures of her present self in them, creating bittersweet double self-portraits.
The work was done marvelously well. The two figures seems so natural being together in cool melancholy, as if the artist has gone back in time to meet her younger self.
“The digital process becomes a tool, almost like a time machine, as I’m embarking on the journey to where I once belonged and at the same time becoming a tourist in my own history,” said the photographer.
Source: chino.co.uk
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Love this idea. I want to do it for myself, and add a message I’d have given myself about the day/place. I agree with BEF that it could be re-done in another decade or two.
So clever and moving…
Good work, but The Ring or Juon style creepiness, and notice that both are not smiling on any shot, very cold expressions. 何か冷たい表情だね。ちょっと気持ち悪い写真だね！
Nicely done.
Get a weird feeling, because I can see in the original photo’s she was always alone, and still looks like it a bit. Yes, I know, she didn’t use the pictures with more friends and family. It’s the feel, I hope not her reality.
Get a weird feeling, because I can see in the original photo’s she was always alone, and still looks like it a bit. Yes, I know, she didn’t use the pictures with more friends and family. It’s the feel, I hope not her reality.
I was stunned the whole time. Very nice job.
This is dope!!!
brilliant
I sincerely hope she reprises this project after another couple of decades, and over and over again. Such beautiful and evocative images.