Woman Photoshops Present-Day Self into Childhood Photos

[pbalko]

<p>Why can't I think of things like this?<br /><a href="http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/chino-otsuka-imagine-finding-me">http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/chino-otsuka-imagine-finding-me</a></p>

[jordan2240]

<p>Very cool. No wonder you can't trust photographs as evidence of anything anymore.</p>

[Member69643]

<p>I like it!</p>

[terrypittman]

<p>Another fan!</p>

[MichaelChang]

<p>Adding to Phil's post - </p>

<p>Video interview with the artist: <br>

<a href="http://www.aimiaagophotographyprize.com/chino-otsuka">http://www.aimiaagophotographyprize.com/chino-otsuka</a></p>

<p>Her website:<br>

<a href="http://chino.co.uk/index.htm">http://chino.co.uk/index.htm</a></p>

[Julie H]

<p>Reminds me a little bit of Gillian Wearing's audio mash-up with her children that is ... bizarre. [ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36WUgFMDY-M"> LINK </a>]</p>

[cyanatic]

<p>That is well done -- on a number of levels -- I must say. </p>

[gulfbeach47]

<p>Love this! <br />If I had kids, I would thinking of locations and poses that could be repeated as the kids grow up.</p>

[john_h.1]

<p>Very cool. I think we'll be seeing more of this soon.</p>

[AlanKlein]

<p>Back To The Future.</p>

[sarah_fox]

<p>I think this is the first time I've seen a selves portrait (or a selvesie).</p>

[gulfbeach47]

<p>Wish I was talented enough at PhotoShop to do this.</p>

 

[MichaelChang]

<p>John, I bet you'll be able to do it reasonably well with just a couple of week's of intensive practice - on the photoshop side; making the later photo match the early one in lighting and color gradation, in-camera or post, might be much trickier.</p>

<p>I'm sure all of us have at least one early photo of ourselves that we can try this on. Might be fun. </p>

[lex_jenkins]

<p>Very clever, and poignant. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.saatchionline.com/floraborsi">Flora Borsi</a>, an incredibly talented young conceptual photo artist, gained some web notoriety last year by <a href="http://petapixel.com/2013/04/19/woman-photoshops-herself-and-her-cell-phone-camera-into-historical-photos/">'shopping herself into classic news photos</a> of past decades. It's so well done the only tipoff is her ever-present phone or digital cam.</p>

<p>But where Flora's 'shops relied on humor and absurdity, Chino Otuska delves into the more personal realm of self-re-imagination.</p>

[gulfbeach47]

<p>Thanks Michael, I would need a lot of practice. Unfortunately, I have forgotten a lot of the PS lessons that I learned in college and have such a hard time with my comprehension skills. I would definitely need video photoshop tutorials for the technically challenged. <br />I agree that many of us probably have photos of when we were young that we can try this with. This is the most exciting idea that I have seen in awhile. <br /><br />I look a lot like my dad at various ages. It would pretty wild to try this with a photo that I took of him in his 50's or so and plant myself in their with him, just to compare the likeness.<br>

<br />These ideas could be a new way for some photographers to generate a little bit of the income lost to the multitude of everyday people that now own decent cameras, but do not have the technical skills to achieve this process.<br>

Curious what some of you would charge to do just the photo session and then time spent for photo manipulation, not including print or cd of image?<br /><br />This Present-Day Self into Childhood Photos might also be fun for the Pnet monthly photo contest a few months down the road. Members would need a fair amount of time to look for images, take the photo and in my case, LOTS of practice:) I hope we at least see a thread of these photos from members. <br>

<br />I congratulate photographer Chino Otsuka. I find myself looking at the photos over and over thinking that can't be real and that it is Chino and her daughter.</p>

<p>Ps... Thanks Michael... Somehow I missed your earlier post with the video of Chino. A big thanks to Phil B. for this thread.</p>

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<p>Reminds me a little bit of Gillian Wearing's audio mash-up with her children that is ... bizarre. [ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36WUgFMDY-M" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> LINK </a>]</p>

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<p>Ha! That video is wild and interesting. </p>

 

 

[etphoto]

<p>Very impressive PhotoShop work. I consider myself fairly good at PhotoShop and I don't think I could do what she has done. I might give it a try in the next week or so though.<br>

Good find. Thanks for posting.</p>

[gary_leonard3]

<p>Woody Allen, Zelig, 1983.</p>

[lex_jenkins]

<p>That Gillian Wearing video was hilarious and disconcerting. For some reason I immediately watched this as a followup: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZel7WappC4">"The Exorcist in Linda Blair's own voice"</a>. The contrast with the more familiar Mercedes McCambridge voiceover had a similar vibe.</p>

<p>I've seen several childhood reinvention photo projects lately, including a pair of brothers who did Santa photos every year, even as adults; and at least two different projects of siblings recreating childhood snapshots, most of which were very funny.</p>

<p>But Chino Otuska's have a mesmerizing quality - reverent, a little unsettling, yet not jokey or gimmicky.</p>

[MichaelChang]

<p>Scroll down a bit from her Portfolio link is her "Generations" photos - there is a level of honesty about it that makes me relate to them as family snapshots yet feel something more special than that. Click on the thumbnails for full screen view:<br>

<a href="http://www.aimiaagophotographyprize.com/chino-otsuka#anchorPortfolio">http://www.aimiaagophotographyprize.com/chino-otsuka#anchorPortfolio</a></p>

[gulfbeach47]

<p>The Luxton brothers ‘Then And Now’ Photos. http://www.viralnova.com/luxton-brothers-photos/</p>