Artist combines WWII and contemporary photographs.

[ddutchison]

Never seen anything like this before.

She's taken a collection of WWII photographs and perfectly double-exposed them into contemporary shots of the now peaceful and mundane locations that were depicted in the originals.

http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2012/10/22/1226499/465024-ghosts-of-history.jpg
(photo: Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, via The Courier-Mail, Brisbane Au.)

Full article from the Courier-Mail is here, and there is a link to more images on her Facebook page.

 

[Mystyler]

That is fantastic, and bloody eerie.

 

[Ron (Netherlands)]

Netherlands?

Netherlands?

Indeed impressive! The above picture seems to be taken in my home country

read the article, indeed shot in the Netherlands

 

[Bill58]

I saw those and wondered if those Allied troops were in the exact same place during WWII as depicted. Do you know?

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Jo's site seems to have gone viral over the weekend with news sites copying the articles from each other.

I'm sure she has made those photo collages from Amsterdam and other Dutch towns, I don't know if the others taken in France are her work to be honest.

 

[oftheherd]

What a clever idea! I will have to try and find more.

 

[burancap]

I will have to try and find more.

There are more right here ON RFF!

I *believe* Larenkov was the first to do this and likely deserves the credit.

That said, there seem to be a few folks concentrating on different locations.

 

[ddutchison]

@Mystyler "... fantastic, and bloody eerie." I see a lot of photography that I think is "good", but not a lot that effects me in such a visceral way as these.


@Bill58 "I saw those and wondered if those Allided troops were in the exact same place during WWII as depicted." Yes. She traveled to the locations of the original pictures, re-photographed the scenes, and then combined the images.

@burancap "I *believe* Larenkov was the first to do this..." Intersting, his web-site is here.