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Anybody who's visited any of the world's major tourist sites recently will know how difficult it is to get a perfect photograph. It's almost impossible to take a good snap without also snapping hundreds of selfie sticks (not literally. Although there's an idea...), but this photographer has come up with a unique way to avoid the crowds - he simply takes his pictures from the wrong direction.

The series is called Volte-face, and the man behind the camera is British photographer Oliver Curtis. His inspiration came in 2012 when Curtis was visiting the Pyramids of Giza. “In the mid-distance I saw a newly constructed golf course, its fairways an intense green,” he said on Creative Boom. “I found this visual sandwich of contrasting color, texture and form intriguing...because of the oddness of my position; standing at one of the great wonders of the world facing the ‘wrong’ way.”

You can see Volte-face at the Royal Geographical Society in London from September 19 until October 14. Just make sure you're facing the right way.

More info: Oliver Curtis (h/t: creative boom, PetaPixel)

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Judy Wanderi
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I did this too, and was in awe of how much detail the photo opposite the Mona Lisa has, I was more captivated by it than the hordes that were gawking at Mona Lisa.

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Julie Perrissel
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He is not the only one pointing the camera in the wrong direction on that one!

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love this park! I spend a lot of time there when we visit, just staring at the White House and watching the people go by.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is the guy on the left a ballet dancer considering the position hos feet are in ????????

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's ... very disturbing. But, well, what isn't disturbing in Auschwitz?

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why the hell pacos always appear in chilean pictures??? This country is more than that!!!

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