Let's see what happened!
Photos store in themselves all our most important memories - happy, sad and giving hope. But we experience even more amazing emotions not only when we look into the past, but when we know for sure that after many, many years, all the sealed moments can be relived!
And, it seems, it is this "reunion of the past and the present" that is engaged in street photographer Chris Porsz in the project with the same name "Reunion" ...
In the distant 70's, 80's and 90's Chris wandered around the city of Peterborough (Cambridgeshire, UK) for hours and "caught" in the lens of its inhabitants - from colorful characters, like punks and rockers, to ordinary patrol policemen and, on first glance, unremarkable passers-by. And then, almost forty years later, he found each hero out of his cadres and took new pictures under the same foreshortening!
Let's see what happened?
1. Dog and Tina (year 1985 and year 2015)
The heroes of this photo are punk Tina Carr and her boyfriend Dog. Chris captured them near the cathedral in Peterborough, when Tina was just 18. Some time later, the couple bound themselves by marriage and went on a journey, leaving their hometown in 1990. But, alas, even the birth of twins did not guarantee them a long family life. Today Tina lives in Dorset and works in a weaving workshop. Well, the Dog can no longer afford an exotic styling (for obvious reasons) and is engaged in gardening in the south-west of Wales, where he now lives. "We remember the day that this photo was taken," the couple shares with her memories. "These were great times. And Tina and now allows herself to experiment with the hair! "
2. The Railway Kiss (year 1980 and year 2009)
And the history of this photo will remind you a retro film! So, in the lead roles - 22-year-old Tony Wilmot, saying goodbye to his 21-year-old girlfriend Sally. Then this farewell was forced, because Tony worked as a teacher in Essex, and Sully served in Stafford's local office as an officer. A year later the couple got married. It's impressive that Tony and Sally did not even realize that they were in Chris's frame, and only 29 years later, when the photographer began to look for his heroes, this picture was seen in the local newspaper by Father Tony and notified his family. Currently, the Wilmot family is still together, live in Lichfield (Staffordshire), have Tom and Jenny's adult children and work as school principals!
3. Five runaway boys (year 1987 and year 2016)
All the heroes of this photo perfectly remember the day when they, when playing the arcade "Phoenix" got into the lens of a street photographer. Let's get acquainted in order? The first "runaway" - Andy served in the army and now works in the Royal Mail in Werrington (near Peterborough). The second one is Richard, a family man with two sons who works as an electrician. The third one is Tony James, the father of two children and an excellent master of carving on stone. The fourth of the running is Aaron, who works in Ikea and brings up three sons. Well, the last of the mischievous company - Davinder, also a family man with two children, exchanged Peterborough for Yorkshire. By the way, after the reunion for the photo, this five vowed not to interrupt the friendship any more!
4. Pink Mohicans (year 1985 and year 2016)
Incredibly, at a time when Chris was shooting this shot, a punk named Badger Farcue was just the winner at the pizza eating contest on Cathedral Square. The organizer of this "belly holiday" - Stefan Malanini said that then the guy with the pink mohawk ate all the pizza in 2 minutes, received a prize, a sea of applause and a note on the front page of the local newspaper. Today, like 31 years ago, Badger Farcue is working as a handyman, but already brings up five children and moved to Somerset.
5. Sisters (year 1980 and year 2013)
Let's find out the name of the heroine of this photo. From left to right are the twin sisters Sheknaz, Rukhsana and their elder sister Itrat. "We were so fond of perching on the windowsill in childhood and watching what was happening on the street," remember the sisters Begum, "and my mother said that we were as one ..."
To date, the girls have remained in Peterborough. Sheknaz is divorced, has a daughter and helps the elderly and disabled people, and her twin sister remarried and has already given birth to five children. Well and the senior Itrat is married, brings up six children and works in a post office.
6. Good friends (year 1980 and year 2015)
"Restore" this frame in today's time turned out to be easy for Chris, because all four boys and today are the best friends. Although no, one small problem arose - all the characters of the frame wanted to give a little extra lavish styling, but time has made its own corrections! Guys admit that back then, back in the 80s, they were known as real mods, and their relatives grumbled that they spent too much time in the bathroom on the exterior.
7. Iron Mickey (year 1980 and year 2016)
Steve Osbourne or "Iron Mickey" was captured just at the moment when he recovered from two-leg fractures in bicycle crashes: "Even then, with plates, bolts and in plaster, I loved riding the bike," Steve tells.
And today the extreme rocker with a cane does not think to settle down, but plays the guitar in different groups and collects money to help bikers with disabilities. By the way, Iron Mickey is married, the father of four children (although in 2012 he buried one son) and lives in Spalding (Lincolnshire).
8. The seller of jewelry (year 1990 and 2015)
The heroine of this photo is Vicky Gracie (in the girlhood of Frost). At the time of the creation of the frame, she worked as a jewelry salesman in the shopping center Queensgate. Since then, a married woman and a mother of two children confesses that she has not changed herself, but prefers to work "with the public" - in restaurants, behind the counter of shops and even in a hairdresser.
9. Girlfriends (year 1982 and year 2011)
This is the "female" response to the frame of "good friends"! Let's get acquainted with the girls in the picture under the town hall on Cathedral Square - Penny, three sisters (Sarah, Louise and Carol) and Juliet. Alas, the place of the last heroine of Juliet, who unfortunately already died, in a modern photo was taken by her sister Alison.
10. Ice cream (year 1981 and year 2015)
The photographer captured 5-year-old Donna Jarnell and her 3-year-old Stephen's brother eating ice cream in the front garden, 34 years ago! It turns out the family of children moved from this house two years after meeting with Chris's lens, and a new "reunion" gave a lot of touching memories of that period of childhood. "I was very surprised that the gates in our former home were exactly the same as in 1981," Donna shares her emotions, who still lives in Peterborough, brings up four children and works in a pub. By the way, her brother Stephen also did not change his native city, he was married for a long time and has a son!