Photographer Chino Otsuka inserts an image of herself as an adult into her childhood photographs, creating an instant biographical moment. “Being a tourist of your own history” is her starting point. (Above: Chino Otsuka, 1976 and 2005, Kamakura, Japan)
Her series Imagine Finding Me consists of double self-portraits. She seamlessly places a current image beside her past self in places she has visited. “The digital process becomes a tool, almost like a time machine,” she says. These images are from the Art Gallery of Ontario’s AIMIA Photography Prize, where she was short-listed for the 2013 award. (Above: 1982 and 2005, Paris, France)
1984 and 2005, London, England
1982 and 2006, Tokyo, Japan
Above: 1984 and 2005, Richmond Hotel, France / Below: 1985 and 2005 Beijing
Below: Installation View: Imagine Finding Me, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2013
Art Gallery of Ontario, AIMIA Photography Prize page, here.
Chino Otsuka’s website, here.
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Dang, that is fascinating! People can be so creative!
brilliant!
a universal dream i believe, being able to go back to your childhood, rediscovering different feelings, sensations that are reserved for children only .. Beautiful work
Very well put and if you go look at the full page on the AGO, there’s an image of a message from her to her younger self that coincides with your comment.
Very interesting indeed.
She’s really captured a way of looking at childhood here, agree.