The world around us is constantly changing and evolving, even though we may not be noticing it in detail. That street you grew up in as a child is likely to have transformed by now. The same is true for countless other streets, places, and landmarks from the world over. This becomes more evident when we get the opportunity to compare different places from the past and how they look in the present.
A website named ‘re.photos’ has made that possible, thankfully. Dedicated to 're-photographies' (pictures based on “before and after”, “then and now”), they have collected several photographs of the past and the present of places from around the world. These showcase how starkly our world continues to change. Sometimes for the good. Sometimes not so much.
#2. Karl Johan Street, Norway, 1899 - 2007
#3. St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre, Ireland, 2004 and 2013
#4. Chaney Glacier, USA, 1911 and 2005
#5. Japanese Soldiers Moving Through Kuala Lumpur (1942) & Kuala Lumpur (2016)
#6. Opera Hanoi, Vietnam, 1945 and 2015
#7.Lunch Atop a Skyscraper, USA (1932) and England (2011)
#8. Shepard Glacier, USA, 1913 and 2005
#9. Nowomiejska Street, Poland, 1874 and 2016
#10. Pont De L'alma, Paris, France, 1900 and 2017
#11. Seljestadjuvet, Odda, Norway, 1887 and 2014
#12. Mont Saint-Michel, France, 1908 and 2016
#13. Rysstad, Norway, 1888 and 2013
#14. Portobello Beach, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1919 - 2016
#15. Martin Luther Statue, Dresden, Germany, 1958 and 2014
#16. National Textile Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1971 and 2016
#17. Warmenhuizen, Holland, 1950 and 2016
#18. Sultan Abdul Samad, Malaysia, 1941 and 2016
#19. L'viv, Ukraine, 1943 and 2017
