
Irina Werning: I was scanning old pictures for a friend, and afterward I happened to walk past a building that was in one of those pictures. So I was standing there and imagined recreating it.
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I’ll do this until it bores me.Where do you plan on going for the next series?
I shot 150 BACK TO THE FUTURE pictures in one and a half years. Now I’m off to do it in India. Next year: Russia, Iceland, Beirut, Istanbul, Cairo…

USA, UK, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, and Germany.


The one of Fer and the one of Christoph in front of the Berlin Wall, because of the history behind it.Yeah, I loved that one. Something I’m curious about is how you go about picking the old picture you’ll actually use. Do you have a certain criteria for it?
No, I just pick the image I fall in love with.

I’ve learned so many things from doing this project: sewing, drawing, using any and every material around me, buying things online, the history of fashion, that the sun rises east, the anatomy of the face, how our body changes, and to always carry double-sided, masking, and measuring tape in my bag.
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The Zurbanos! I was terrified that the father would get squashed underneath all of his sons…

