Rephotography is the act of taking a photo of a place that has already been photographed some time ago. While being a challenge for the photographers to recreate all the angles as close as possible to the original, these images also speak wonders about the passage of time.
Whether we’re looking at expanding cities or melting glaciers, these side-by-side comparisons tell fascinating stories about the state of the world we live in as well as humanity’s abilities to create and destroy.
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A few subreddits — most notably, r/OldPhotosInRealLife — have created huge archives of these photos, so we’re inviting you to take a look at some of the most fascinating ones.
#1 The Arctic 103 Years Ago Compared To Today
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#2 My Grandfather And I In Tokyo, 73 Years Apart
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#3 Moscow Pictures 20 Years Apart
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#4 University Of Montana ~150 Years Apart
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#5 Utrecht, Netherlands 1982 vs. 2020. They Converted The Highway To A Canal
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#6 The Shambles In York (UK) Inspiration For Diagon Alley From Harry Potter. Late 1800s And Today
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#7 Singapore 2000 vs. Now
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#8 1820 Industrial St, Los Angeles
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#9 Bishan Park, 30 Years Apart. Top Pic, 1988. Bottom Pic, 2020
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#10 Chichen Itza 1892 And Now
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#11 Early Los Angeles Compared To 2001
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#12 The Former Island Of Urk – The Netherlands 1930 vs. 2020
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#13 The Trams They Are Changing ( 1990 / 2018 )
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#14 My Hometown, Approx 100 Years Ago vs. My Pic From Last Week…. Not So Much Has Changed…
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#15 Atomic Bomb Dome – 75 Years Later
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#16 Bike Ride In Berlin Kreuzberg ( ~1985 / 2018 )
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#17 My Great Grandfather And I Trained At The Same Location, Exactly 100 Years Apart. He Left For France Shortly After This Was Taken In 1917
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#18 North Side Of Chicago, Il. 1890 vs. 2020
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#19 The Flatiron Building, New York (1917 And 2012)
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#20 Nuremberg, Germany 1936 vs. 2020
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#21 The Development Of This City In Georgia
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#22 Dubai Marina (2000 – 2020)
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#23 Dresden In Ww2 vs. Dresden Now
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#24 Hollywood Sign, Los Angeles, USA
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#25 I Just Made This To Show Just How Much Melbourne’s Skyline Has Grown In 20 Years…
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#26 The Banyan Tree In Maui. Top Photo Taken By My Grandfather While He Was Stationed There During Wwii. Bottom I Took Without Knowing His Photo Existed
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#27 Subang Jaya, Selangor. 44 Years Apart
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#28 1920 / 2020 . San Francisco, Ca
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#29 Growing Up We Could See Farmland For Miles. Now We Look Out At A Neighborhood Staring Right Back At Us
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#30 From Fascism To Kebabs, Durham 1934 vs. 2020
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#31 260-268 Elizabeth Street New York Tenement Building A Century Apart. The Life Stories That Building Holds!
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#32 World War I Trenches
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#33 San Diego, California: 1927 vs. 2020
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#34 Buckhurst Hill Station (London Underground Station) – (1875 – 2020)
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#35 Castro St, San Francisco, Ca. 1940s And Now. Pics From Cable Car Museum Twitter.
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#36 The Changing Face Of St Bartholomew-The-Great’s Gatehouse In Smithfield, Which Was Built In 1595 And Some Point Bricked Over. It Was Bombed During A Ww1 Zeppelin Raid Knocking Off Some Bricks Revealing Its Tudor Half-Timbered Facade. It Was Restored To How It Looks Today. 1916 vs. Now
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#37 Taal Volcano, Philippines. Before And After The Eruption
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#38 Building A Streetcar System In 1911 That No Longer Exists Today – Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
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#39 Inside The Death Zone ( 1990 / 2018 )
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#40 Chicago 1930s vs. Chicago Modern Day, Specifically Looking A Tribune Tower
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#41 1965/2017 – Water St, Lancaster Pennsylvania
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#42 Boston 1904 /2010 (Current Photo By Me, Guessing At The Date)
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#43 Stolen Parts ( 1991 / 2018 )
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#44 The Notorious Görlitzer Park In Berlin ( 1987 / 2019 )
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#45 Glittertind, Norway (1902 vs. 2020)
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