Then and now pictures

The gutted Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (C), which is currently called the Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome, after the bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 6, 1945 and the same location near Aioi Bridge in Hiroshima in 2015

We are a group of people who love re-photographies (“before and after”, “then and now”) because of their potential to tell fascinating stories with just two pictures. There wasn’t really a central hub for this kind of art so we got to work and built re.photos. It’s a website that enables people to browse hundreds of pictures or upload and align their own.

Okay, granted that whoever put some of the celebrity "now" photos intentionally picked unflattering snapshots. And yet others, it's scary to know that some of

We are a group of people who love re-photographies (“before and after”, “then and now”) because of their potential to tell fascinating stories with just two pictures. There wasn’t really a central hub for this kind of art so we got to work and built re.photos. It’s a website that enables people to browse hundreds of pictures or upload and align their own.

As we reflect on the 70th anniversary of The Blitz these montages blend vintage shots of 1940 with colour images of the same locations today.

The subreddit r/OldPhotosInRealLife is pretty much the closest thing we have to a time machine. Its 596k members are constantly comparing past and present through rephotography — the act of taking a photo of a place that has already been photographed before. The end result is like a portal, fusing together two different periods.

It's difficult to really imagine how much the world has actually changed over the last 100 years or so. Many of the world's most famous cities like Hong Kong

We are a group of people who love re-photographies (“before and after”, “then and now”) because of their potential to tell fascinating stories with just two pictures. There wasn’t really a central hub for this kind of art so we got to work and built re.photos. It’s a website that enables people to browse hundreds

A Detroit-born photographer documented his city in the early 1970s; he returns to the same sites 40 years later.