Get Premium
Dark mode theme is available exclusively for premium users. Learn more about the benefits of subscribing.
Dark Mode 
No fees, cancel anytime 
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.
This post may include affiliate links.
#1
Final score:
31points
#2
Final score:
27points
#4
Final score:
24points
#6
Final score:
19points
#7
Final score:
19points
#8
Final score:
18points
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
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.
#10
Final score:
14points
#11
Final score:
13points
#13
Final score:
12points
Erika Daniel 6 years ago
I imagine these ones would just stand still, staring at you as you pass...
#14
Final score:
11points
#15
Final score:
11points
Chocolate Quente e Biscoitos 6 years ago
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)
#16
Final score:
11points
#19
Final score:
9points
#20
Final score:
9points
Chocolate Quente e Biscoitos 6 years ago
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
#22
Final score:
8points
#24
Final score:
6points
#25
Final score:
6points
#27
Final score:
5points
Add New Image
What do you think ?
makenzie stephenson 6 years ago
Yes, that is exactly what I thought as well those are my favorite books. Seriously
Load More Replies...
makenzie stephenson 6 years ago
Yes, that is exactly what I thought as well those are my favorite books. Seriously
Load More Replies... You May Like 86 Photography Hacks To Take Your Photos To The Next Level “View From My Window”: 30 Mesmerizing Scenes People Snapped Right From Their Windows Look At What New York Looked Like 3 Decades Ago (30 Photos)
Aivaras Kaziukonis
Rugilė Žemaitytė
Indrė Lukošiūtė
Related on Bored Panda
