Irina Werning is a freelance photojournalist who focuses on personal long-term projects. She is based in Argentina and has a bachelor’s degree in economics, a master’s degree in history and a master’s in photojournalism. Werning won the Ian Parry Scholarsip in 2006, the Emerging photographer fund in 2012, and he first place Sony world photography award for portraiture in 2012.
Back to the Future
Irina Werning became world-famous as a result of her project ‘Back to the Future’. In this project Werning photographed people as they reenacted their childhood portraits. This unique series shows how people look and feel 20 years after their childhood portraits, Werning took her camera and portrayed hundreds of people as they go back to their future. She was inspired to create this project after she scanned some older photos and after she ended up in one of the locations where one of these photos had been shot. I find this project interesting as your able to see how people change overtime.
Analysis
This photograph by Werning shows the way that the subject has grown since the original photo. It has been well done as she was able to position the new photograph in the exact same way the old one was taken, including the same object in the background and view in the window. They also paid attention to detail by using the same clothing and almost identical glasses.