Blink, a day passes, blink, a year, two, ten. Time is an unstoppable force we have to live with, and to highlight its passage, photographer Josephine Sittenfeld has recreated the portraits of her college classmates she took in 2000.
During those days, Sittenfeld was a junior at Princeton University. She photographed her friends on medium-format film, and the shots eventually ended up collecting dust in her parents' closet. But last spring, as her fifteen-year college reunion was approaching, she remembered the photos and decided to recreate them during the event.
The result is "Reunion," a series of before-and-after shots that have almost the same feel as class gatherings themselves. The pictures show a fast-forwarded transformation of the individuals rather than a gradual long-term change. "At twenty, I felt something intangible, indescribable, full of energy," Sittenfeld's former roommate said. "Only now am I able to describe it—the ultimate sensing of a life ahead." In the later shots, people in front of the lens look less resistant to its intimacy. Shoulders back, bodies less tensed. Could it be because of the reminiscence of everything that came before?
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He's trapped forever in door prison :D.
Becky looks older in 2000 than she does in 2017.
He really grew up. Love the subtle chaos in the pics, his half-untucked shirt in the first one and the single slanted picture frame in the second one.
In 2017 she has the tired look of a parent of teen age children.
I think the people that are missing most likley just moved away or the contact was lost. There are people missing in the other pics too.
Ellie got too famous for you other two!
Thankfully she looks a bit happier in the second one.
Reminds a bit of “Eleven “ in the 2000 pic.
I agree with you Jess. Hope 2018 is a great year for all of us!
Nice photos.. But I want to know what happened to the 'missing' people?
Maybe just not available to do the pic that day. Ellie is in a solo pic, but missing from a group pic for example.
They just didn't go to the reunion, most likely.
In most (if not all) cases, I assume they just weren't at the reunion. Did everyone show up at all of your school reunions? I've been out of high school for 23 years (wow), and haven't attended a single reunion.
My school never had school reunions,neither have any in London (that I've heard of).. Nice idea though..
I really enjoyed this. I love seeing how people age. I'd love to see a follow up that shows aging in people with much harder lives than Princeton grads, though.