Irina Werning – Back to the Future

Irina Werning is an photographer from Argentina who works with the project “Back the Future” where she takes pictures of people in the same position as in an old photo from their where kids. She sais herself about the project; “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.“

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PANCHO IN 1983 & 2010, Buenos Aires

MATIAS IN 1977 & 2010, Uruguay

FLOR, MALE, SIL IN 1983 & 2010

IAN IN 1984 & 2010, London

Nico in 1986 & 2010, Buenos Aires

: LUCIA IN 1956 & 2010, Buenos Aires

La Negra 1980 and 2010, Buenos Aire

Ato 1992 & 2010, Buenos Aires

MECHI IN 1990 & 2010, Buenos Aires

TOMMY IN 1977 & 2010, Buenos Aires

Lulu & G in 1980 & 2010, Buenos Air

MY PARENTS IN 1970 & 2010, Buenos A

FIONA IN 1978 & 2010, London

CECILE IN 1987 & 2010, France

NICO IN 1990 & 2010, France

MARITA & COTY IN 1977 & 2010, Buenos Aires

SUE IN 1977 & 2010 , London

MARINA IN 1988 & 2010, Buenos Aires

LALI IN 1978 & 2010, Buenos Aires

 

More:

• irinawerning.com

Congrats Alejandro Chaskielberg!

-The Hunter-

An Argentinian photographer who began his career on local papers last night picked up one of his art form’s leading awards for a portfolio of pictures he took while living with islanders in the Paraná river delta, Argentina.

Alejandro Chaskielberg’s dramatically luminous images of a community going about their daily lives won him photographer of the year – known as L’Iris D’Or – at the Sony World Photography Awards, presented last night at a gala ceremony at the Odeon Leicester Square in London.

Chaskielberg, 34, spent two years with the islanders, immersing himself in their daily lives and taking photographs of precisely staged scenes at night. The chairman of this year’s judges, critic Francis Hodgson, said of Chaskielberg’s High Tide series: “These carefully directed pictures tell solid truths – about toil and community and marginal survival – in a splendidly allusive way.”

Buenos Aires-born Chaskielberg, who took his first job on a local newspaper aged 18, said of the project: “Using photography, I have been able to present another version of the Paraná river delta and its community that has been photographically ignored throughout the years.” (…)

He beat considerable competition, with 105,000 images entered from 162 countries.

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Auf Deutsch y en espanol.

The High Tide Portfolio

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Interview

If you find his work intersting then check the interview at the Brighton Photo Biennial (10.2010):

For those of you who speak spanish, here the complete “Documental mágico” (more than one hour!) by Marcelo Brodsky:

Here Chaskielberg’s Blog and Web.

All the Sony World Photography Awards 2011, winners and categories can be found here.