Tabor, Czech Republic 1976-2013
In January 2005, when flickr was still in its infancy, I uploaded a set of scans of pictures made in 1976 when I was on a bicycling holiday in (then) Czechoslovakia/(now) the Czech Republic. Holidaying in the repressive atmosphere of a soviet occupation wasn't all fun and games but photographically it was a goldmine for me.
In 2007 the set was seen by fellow-flickr'r and Czech emigrant, Jindra Noewi, who is now a painter in Tampa, Florida (see here) but who was born in one of the towns that I visited (Tabor). She liked the historical views the pictures offered and wrote to me that, if she would ever be back there, she'd try and photograph the same places again.
Well, she just came back from that trip and recently uploaded ten pictures, offering virtually the same views of the places I shot 37 years ago.
What a wonderful adventure! And how great to see the changes that took place there after communism was a thing of the past!
So, after having consulted with her, I can now present here a set of time travelling internet collaboration, consisting of these ten diptyches. Hope you enjoy!
Tabor, Czech Republic 1976-2013
In January 2005, when flickr was still in its infancy, I uploaded a set of scans of pictures made in 1976 when I was on a bicycling holiday in (then) Czechoslovakia/(now) the Czech Republic. Holidaying in the repressive atmosphere of a soviet occupation wasn't all fun and games but photographically it was a goldmine for me.
In 2007 the set was seen by fellow-flickr'r and Czech emigrant, Jindra Noewi, who is now a painter in Tampa, Florida (see here) but who was born in one of the towns that I visited (Tabor). She liked the historical views the pictures offered and wrote to me that, if she would ever be back there, she'd try and photograph the same places again.
Well, she just came back from that trip and recently uploaded ten pictures, offering virtually the same views of the places I shot 37 years ago.
What a wonderful adventure! And how great to see the changes that took place there after communism was a thing of the past!
So, after having consulted with her, I can now present here a set of time travelling internet collaboration, consisting of these ten diptyches. Hope you enjoy!