This is a project by a Slovakian photographer Palo Markovic. He created it at a photographic exhibition “Fall of Communism”, which was staged on a couple of public squares in Bratislava. He posed people in front of the photographs thus including them to the events originally portrayed. The original exhibition presented photographs that have been made in the autumn of 1989, during the social changes that took place in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and Romania.
This is how Palo describes his project:
“I’ve been confronted once again with situations that happened 20 years ago when the edge of history made a cut one more time. It was the revolutionary autumn of 1989 when people behind the iron curtain had met in the streets and demanded change. My generation had been too young to be allowed to participate. Me and my mates were watching those events like tourists in own country. And these memories now return as flashes in the dark, revealing obscure development of history in time.”
Palo also organised a guerilla marketing action, attaching a poster for his project (shown above) to the original billboard for the exhibition.
Palo can be found at http://www.lightstalkers.org/palomarkovic