Sergey Larenkov centres his work around World War II. As Eugene Atget documented old Paris and people now try to find the places and document the modern world to show the comparisons, or lack of them in some cases, Larenkov fuses images from the second world war with modern day images to create striking effects, and striking they are!
The images bring history to life in such an amazing way. He has created images from cities including Leningrad (His hometown), St Petersburg, Prague, Moscow, Paris, Berlin amongst others...
Larenkov is not actually a professional photographer, he apparently does this as a hobby. The old images are located in archives and he travels to the sites and tries to get the pictures to match up as best as he can.
'It's very interesting to find the point where another photographer once stood. Suddenly, you see an old world with your very own eyes. You are transported back in time, it's almost as if you've stepped into a time machine. Sometimes, this is scary' - http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/ghosts-of-world-war-ii-paris-6
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