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I often visit flea markets looking for old cameras or something like this. One day I saw a stand from a Frenchman who was selling a mass of very old photographs, only portraits. I bought some pictures from him. I had an idea in mind to do something with old vintage photographs but didn't know what. When I viewed the pictures at home I decided to transform all these people adding them to the present.

It's about time, the past and the present. All people in these pictures are strangers from the past, most probably dead for a long time. Now they all come together in the present, like ghostly appearance on different locations and cities.

For these series, I combined two photographs - one picture I took with my own self-made anamorphic pinhole camera and one old vintage photograph. The pinhole images are all 6x6 film photographs which I developed on my own and scanned the negatives. Then I also scanned the portraits. At the end, I combined these pictures using photoshop and added some 'ghostly' effects.

The name of this series is 'ghosts of...'  and they're created by me, Frank Machalowski.

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

    I know this place!!!! It's the city I live in, Leipzig in Germany! Amazing!

    Yolanda Qin
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aha, I thought you meet ghost in person...Sorry for my misunderstanding~

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    Monika Soffronow
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nice work. The pure eeriness of time and of existing in it.

    Priscilla Winslow
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just want to hug these two little girls...

    Taryn Wallace
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    NOOO!!!! They want you to let your guard down!!! That's when they attack! NEVER underestimate small seemingly innocent looking children!!

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

    Ring around the rosie, pocket full of posy

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    Kandis Glasgow
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like this one a lot. Very striking.

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    Monika Soffronow
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every moment is so important - and then the moment passes, has passed, is gone forever. One of the oxygen molecules in my bloodstream was once inhaled by Julius Caesar, another by a dodo long after photosynthesis was invented by what we know as plants. These are shadows of eternity lurking in each fleeting moment.

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    Kandis Glasgow
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She looks like a fairy! Very interesting.

    Priscilla Winslow
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She looks very scary... but so do nuns in their traditional habits, to me. Do girls making communion dress like miniature brides because they're marrying Jesus?

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    Erika Daniel
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    please, don't leave us here!! we're cold!

    Priscilla Winslow
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What year might this be? Why are children in all of these photos miserable? They didn't have to hold still for very long. Or did no one ever think to ask them to SMILE?

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    Erika Daniel
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I imagine these ones would just stand still, staring at you as you pass...

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    Chocolate Quente e Biscoitos
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love how each one of the pics seems to be telling a story of life and tradegy. I surprise myself wondering what these people's lives were like, what were their dreams, which ones they fulfilled.. and what tragedies took their lives for them to be stuck between dimensions like that (in the context of the pics of course, because I hope their actual lives were long and happy, but that we'll never know)

    Priscilla Winslow
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't know what year this depicts, but I don't think lives back then were long or happy.

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    Chocolate Quente e Biscoitos
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because of the light and her expression, I picture this as being an angel showing some lost and desperate one the path to safety/salvation

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    Priscilla Winslow
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like her purse. I was never without my purse at that age...

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    Priscilla Winslow
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who's the creepy kid at the top? Get thee behind me, Satan?