Photographer Irina Werning sheds light upon this universal journey in “Back to the Future,” an ongoing photo series that began in 2011.
Werning’s retro-looking photos are re-creations of ones taken in past moments of people’s lives, and they are simply a “celebration of old pictures,” Werning said.
The idea for “Back to the Future” was formulated when Werning was scanning old photos from a wedding of one of her friends’ parents. She noticed one photo in particular of her friend’s mother and immediately fell in love with it.
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Werning was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has received many awards, including for “Back to the Future” with which she most recently won the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards for Fine Art Portraits.
“Back to the Future” has also been published as a photo book, featuring photos as well as some of the emails Werning has received from people from all around the world interested in journeying back in time.
Although the book is comprised of people unrelated to one another, “Back to the Future” is characteristic of an intimate family photo album. There is a clear sense of individuality layered within the universality underlying each pixel of every photo.
“Some people say these pictures make them laugh, other people say that they cry. I get all types of reactions. For me, I laugh when I see (the pictures), I smile,” Werning said.
Irina Werning is an Argentine photographer based in Buenos Aires. You can like the Back to the Future project on Facebook.
