Take whatever famous monument approximately the footing , as well as await upwardly pictures of it on the Internet , or at your ain albums , if you lot induce got visited the place. Don’t they all await the same? Sure , in that location are all sorts of angles , only the cameras are all pointed towards the landmark. But if for i time , individual were to plough their backs , signal their cameras away from the landmark inward the contrary direction , as well as snapped a moving painting , would you lot move able to guess where it was taken?
Photographer Oliver Curtis has been doing this for the final 4 years. It started inward 2012 , when he was visiting the Pyramids of Giza inward Cairo. Curtis turned away as well as looked dorsum inward the direction he had come upwardly from. What he saw fascinated him as well as hence much that he has since made a signal of turning his dorsum on some of world’s nearly photographed monuments as well as historic sites , looking at their counter-views as well as forgotten faces.
Taj Mahal , Agra , India
Oliver feels that despite the landmark non beingness introduce inward the photograph , the images are withal suffused amongst the aura of the construction. The photographic goggle box camera lens effectively acts equally a nodal signal as well as , past times giving the photograph the championship of the unseen partner , this duality becomes a virtue.
Oliver Curtis odd photographs volition move on display at an exhibition called Volte-face inward London inward September.
Lincoln Memorial , Washington D.C. , USA
Reichstag , Berlin , Germany
Christ the Redeemer , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
Wailing Wall , Jerusalem , Israel
Mao Mausoleum , Tiananmen Square , Beijing , China
Mona Lisa , Louvre , Paris , France
Pyramid of the Dominicus , Teotihuacan , Mexico
Hollywood Sign , Los Angeles , USA
Stonehenge , Wiltshire , UK
White House , Washington D.C. , USA
Colosseum , Rome , Italy
Great Wall of PRC , Mutianyu , China