Comments on: irina werning – back to the future https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Wed, 07 Sep 2016 08:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: De volta para o futuro… | Mostra São Paulo de Fotografia https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-120494 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:25:17 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-120494 […] A argentina Irina Werning, vencedora do Emerging Photographer Fund – 2011, da Burn Magazine, apresentou um trabalho bem interessante para levar esse premio. Confira algumas imagens abaixo e leia mais aqui. […]

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By: soledad aznarez https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-99902 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:11:34 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-99902 me gusto mucho tu trabajo!! realmente fue una grata sorpresa encontrarme con una compatriota.

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By: Processo de construção de Irina Werning « OLHAR CONSTRUÍDO https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-93382 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:19:37 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-93382 […] fonte: http://www.burnmagazine.org/epf-2011-finalists/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/# […]

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By: peter grant https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-92345 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 04:10:49 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-92345 something strangely sobering.. like meeting an identical twin realizing, no, we’re not the executioners of our own destiny but rather governed by something we dont understand.

Brilliant idea.. profound.

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By: lauraeltantawy https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-92288 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:25:35 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-92288 Hi Irina – sorry for the late response here, but I want you to know I have loved this work ever since I discovered it a few months ago. It’s exceptional. I even referenced it in one of my classes at the University of Westminster, where I know you studied.

Congratulations for the EPF nomination & best of luck.
Hugs ==> L.

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By: ag https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-92260 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:33:58 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-92260 Light and funny and also not a little profound.

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By: partha https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-92222 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:19:21 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-92222 Hi Irina,
Very refreshed thinking…….The photographs are straight and simple and the overall representation is superb………..really a great thinking.
Partha,India

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By: Dominik Dunsch https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-92031 Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:21:05 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-92031 Irina – congratulations on being published and chosen as a finalist!

This is one special piece – and it made me laugh a lot!
I’m not sure if you realized, but you managed to unite a lot of burnians who normally have different views on the published essays we find here on BURN. It is like putting in a Beatles tape in crowded bus – with all those different musical tastes… I thought about what John commented, and yeah, maybe nostalgia and our need for it plays a role. And yeah, maybe we all needed this! Yet I don’t think that it is superficial what I’m looking at. There is a story in every picture. And I like where those pictures take me!
All the best, and congrats again!

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By: Herve https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-92019 Sat, 04 Jun 2011 04:58:33 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-92019 Thumbs up on all counts (love the addition of the dog to the human gallery). Absolutely wonderful, full of humour and also, plenty to reflect about, as years (and a little more) went by.

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By: maia https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-91888 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:14:39 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-91888 Maravilloso trabajo, felicitaciones!!!!!!
El premio debera ser tuyo!

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By: Justinlorimer.com https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-91874 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:06:44 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-91874 Ahh… A breath of fresh air. I salute you on a great concept and superb execution. I very much enjoyed the humor of it. I too am a nosy Photographer as I immediately look at people’s photos when I visit a home, I’m always fascinated with their old pictures and always enjoy the stories that ensue. Again, I really enjoyed this and commend you on coming up with a fantastic concept. Keep up the great work!

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By: Frank Michael Hack https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-91862 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:01:32 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-91862 LOL funny. No Hilarious. Superbly executed. Congratulations!

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By: mimi mollica https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-91860 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:12:21 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-91860 WOW!!!!!!!
I haven’t been in Burn for loooooooong time, and I could not find a better welcome-back of your essay Irina!!!
You are truly AMAZING!!!!!!!! No Words to be added, other than Your Work Is GREAT!

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By: Back to the future. | vida breve https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-91846 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:57:25 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-91846 […] Um projecto finalista da Burn. […]

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By: borja moncunill https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-91845 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:56:41 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-91845 I´ve seen this a few weeks ago, I´ve also seen the “Young Me / Now Me” project that Jim mentioned, some more that I´m trying to found and the Chris Porsz´s one:

http://www.chrisporsz.com/peterborough—reunions.html

Just going through the Web, we can also find much more examples like Cheryl Jacobs:

http://photodino.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/jump-ahead-five-years/

For sure, this it´s not new but I don´t really mind who inspired who, as Andy Grays said:
“BTW, the “Young Me / Now Me” photos bored me within three clicks. I enjoyed this better, probably because of the authorship (style, consistency, intention, real humor). In fact, that site makes me appreciate more what this photographer has done.”

Same for me.

Porsz´s project has the goal that he had taken both the past and current pics. Anyway, there are some more similar essays I´ve sawn during past years but the fact is that Irina´s is the one I enjoyed most. I find it much more funny and powerful than others, probably because of the fine technical execution, the big work behind each pair, the funny point and aesthetics or the flow with the people.

If we are talking about photo storytelling, I understand that both,technique and aesthetics are just some resources of our own photo language we put at the service of the story to be told. As Mtomalty said “the ‘feel good’ essay of the summer…” and of course, as Patricia said “”we needed this…”, but the key for me is that I find it more as a funny/humorous series than a documentary essay.

I´ve always believed in the power of portrait series as a documentary way but I can´t find something more than a funny reflection about the passing of time. I use to share with family and friends some issues, Irina´s one make laughing everyone but nobody seems to find more than a humorous serie instead of a documentary way for reflection. IMO a project works better if you can get the idea without reading the statement and for sure Irina´s does, but which is the story?…or just as Patricia said we need this kind of things? Sure I need it!…but it doesn´t sway me as I expected from a documentary essay.

If I think on the essay as humouros serie, I believe it should be stronger just by using the most powerful/funny pairs.

Anyway I´m glad about checking that some people is trying to use portrait series in documentary purposes.

Congratulations Irina!

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By: Jeff Hladun https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-91842 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:18:13 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-91842 Whoops…I meant Nachtwey…and Las Meninas. (Blushing.)

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By: Jeff Hladun https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-91841 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:08:05 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-91841 Like others I saw this essay some months ago, and was equally impressed with the novelty contained. But upon revisiting it here, the wind has left my sails just a bit. Maybe the issue has more to do with humour and its lack of staying power in art, because there is no faulting the brilliance of the concept or execution.

In regard to the issue of plagiarism being discussed under Dialogue, I hold to Picasso’s motto: “I do not borrow; I steal”. This has been around forever – think of Picasso’s obvious theft of Velásquez’s “Las Meanings” in his later years, and how he was going “back to the future”. Or less readable, the incorporation of Caravaggio’s composition, human forms and facial expressions contained in the “Deposition of Christ” used in Picasso’s ground-breaking “Guernica”. If my masters can do it, then I have no issue.

Another association: just last night I was researching migrant worker documentaries, and was struck by how much James Nacthwey resembles Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Woman”. Had I not seen Werning’s essay, I doubt I would have made the connection!

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By: a civilian-mass audience https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-91835 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:12:15 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-91835 When you reach the top, keep climbing.”
Proverb
BRAVO…!!!

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By: Max Colson https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-91829 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:22:03 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-91829 Irina I love your work! The Damned and the Beautiful is so great too.

I’ve already wished that one of the other finalists would win but I’m going to break my rules and wish that again. Maybe there can be a draw?! Bravo.

All the best in the competition,

Max

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By: john gladdy https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/irina-werning-back-to-the-future/#comment-91825 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 07:46:32 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=9209#comment-91825 so heres the thing. I dont like the work!
Thats not a critique, how can it be? I just do not inhabit a space/time that cares about viewing this kind of work. The fact that most of the planet seems to react positively to it is of no consequence at all.

The pictures are fine, the technical execution is fine, the concept is good and they are humorous.
I just do not find in it something I am interested in looking at.
So, once again, I thought about that.
Why?
The nearest I can get is that:
They occupy a single dimension…..there is only surface
They are far less about the pictures than what the pictures say about peoples need for nostalgia.
They are all also the same picture. ……homogenised.

and….I just do not have any desire to look at them again.

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