Back to the future

There’s a whiff of Michael J Fox’s-finest to this photography project – forgive me the low-brow link. Japanese, London-based photographer Chino Otsuka has imposed her grown up self into a series of old photographs from her childhood resulting in her two selves meeting in a somehow quite sweet way – posing together on the beach, eating baguettes in Paris, standing next to a snowman and so on. The project is entitled Imagine Finding Me and its images are accompanied on the artist’s website with the words: “If, again I have the chance to meet, there is so much I want to ask and so much I want to tell.”

Otsuka is interested in using memory for storytelling and dissecting through her work, feelings related to what home is, and the feeling of being displaced. As someone who has live in both the East and West, this is pertinent. “What makes a place a home and where does a sense of belonging come from?…tracing back and recreating the past is a way to deal with such issues,” states the artist.

(Photos via DesignBoom)