Have you ever heard before about rephotography art? If not, let’s explain it to you. Rephotography is the act of reshooting old photos of a place that has already been photographed as accurately as possible, like the original. This is a big challenge for photographers, especially when it comes to old photos of a place popular, because the places often change usually over the years, and finding the exact position where a picture was taken many years ago is a really hard thing.
However, the users of the r/OldPhotosInRealLife subreddit they created an archive of old photos in modern times, proving how time changes things — Check out some great examples of rephotography in the gallery below.
#1 The Arctic 103 Years Ago Compared To Today
#2 My Grandfather And I In Tokyo, 73 Years Apart
#3 The Shambles In York (UK) Inspiration For Diagon Alley From Harry Potter. Late 1800s And Today
#4 Bike Ride In Berlin Kreuzberg ( 1985 / 2018 )
#5 World War I Trenches
#6 Chichen Itza 1892 And Now
#7 Utrecht, Netherlands 1982 vs. 2020. They Converted The Highway To A Canal
#8 Bishan Park, 30 Years Apart. Top Pic, 1988. Bottom Pic, 2020
#9 Moscow Pictures 20 Years Apart
#10 My Hometown, Approx 100 Years Ago vs. My Pic From Last Week…. Not So Much Has Changed…
#11 The Banyan Tree In Maui. Top Photo Taken By My Grandfather While He Was Stationed There During Wwii. The bottom I Took Without Knowing His Photo Existed
#12 The Flatiron Building, New York (1917 And 2012)
#13 The Changing Face Of St Bartholomew-The-Great’s Gatehouse In Smithfield, Which Was Built In 1595 And Some Point Bricked Over. It Was Bombed During A Ww1 Zeppelin Raid Knocking Off Some Bricks Revealing Its Tudor Half-Timbered Facade. It Was Restored To How It Looks Today. 1916 vs. Now
#14 Atomic Bomb Dome. 75 Years Later
#15 Singapore 2000 vs. Now
#16 From Fascism To Kebabs, Durham 1934 vs. 2020
#17 1920/2020. San Francisco, Ca
#18 The Development Of This City In Georgia
#19 My Great Grandfather And I Trained At The Same Location, Exactly 100 Years Apart. He Left For France Shortly After This Was Taken In 1917
#20 Early Los Angeles Compared To 2001
