I Made Immigrants’ Dream Come True By Photoshopping Them Into Today’s New York
I would like to draw attention to the Immigrants who wanted to live a better life following the American dream. I tried to connect past and present with visualizing these people from vintage photos in today’s environment.
Last year I’ve been to Ellis Island, and I immediately had a bad feeling about that place. I approximately knew what happened in Ellis Island, and later, I’ve been thinking about the likeness of current migration reforms and immigrant crisis in the United States. I did research, and it’s really sad what happened to many Immigrants. Many of them died in Ellis Island while waiting and hoping for an opportunity for a new life.
In this way, their dream came true. I created this photo manipulation project as a reminder and commemorated to the 3,500 people who died there.
Old photos from the previous century are often forgotten, so I did picture colorization on them and some photo editing to make more connections to the present. The images are fictional, and many people couldn’t even get into Manhattan or live in America.
Migration is an ongoing situation, and the story of Ellis Island is still relevant nowadays.
This is not history. This is today.
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Here’s how I did these. Cutting out
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Share on FacebookI think this is a great article. Love the pictures. I don't think people understand that you are talking about the immigrants in the picture not today's immigrants. Fortunately the attitude displayed by a lot of commentators is not held by the majority of Americans.
Except they aren't immigrants. Just random people in other countries that this person spliced together. "The images are fictional"
Load More Replies...FFS do you people have to take everything so literally? Don't you understand subtext when applied to art? My God grow up.
Load More Replies...Your Photoshop work colorizing these historic photographs is amazing! I love this series. Thank you for sharing!
I don't see why so many people got pissed. This project is trying to send a message. Read it.
Terrific Photoshop job and wonderful idea! Never mind the comments from those who have created nothing interesting.
Archive images were made at Ellis Island / New York of real Immigrants around the 1900's. Please read the text. Thank you! orphans-59...74383d.jpg
They're going to get run over and flipped off, standing in the middle of a NY street.
At present time, I'd jump at the chance to go to Canada, Switzerland, Geremany, France, the Netherlands, pretty much anywhere. The country is in the toilet. Corporate greed rules and dark money influences. Lying goes completely unpunished. Americans are brainwashed. Each day we lose more of the principles our country was founded on. I'm angry and disgusted by my own people. Never in my life have I felt this way, but we're not the best country on the planet.
Recognised the Georgian costume before the explanation. This costume is still worn now on special occasions. Me-and-Geo...ingers.jpg
This is r******d if you really cared about immigrants the you would give them food, water, and money. Not photoshop the into NY
It's called "art," and amazingly enough, people can have creative hobbies while also volunteering for causes they care about, working at non-profit organizations, and/or donating money to charities.
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I love it, after more than one hundred years, we're available to compare different momments in human history, to create a new perspective about the past, the people within and to contrast it with ourselves and the present we're living. It's amazing how do we preserved momments while the time keeps it's course and our lives go with it.
Almost all of them look out of place, except the woman on the subway, leaning against her suitcase. That one looks best of all, and could have occurred just yesterday. :D
This is an insulting headline. Where was the frame of mind when this was created? This is not made by an artist but by a performer.
We assimilated, learned english and blended with everyone. It's NOT happening now
Immigration is an ongoing situation.
Load More Replies...The saturation of these photos are painful, it distracted from a pretty good idea
yes, because most of them stuck in Ellis Island.
Load More Replies.......said the descendents of Italian immigrants about Jews, descendents of Irish immigrants about Italians, descendents of British colonists about the Irish, and every Native nation about the British colonists, who were the only ones who actually DID lose their culture and homes. It's called America. None of us are supposed to be here.
Load More Replies...I think this is a great article. Love the pictures. I don't think people understand that you are talking about the immigrants in the picture not today's immigrants. Fortunately the attitude displayed by a lot of commentators is not held by the majority of Americans.
Except they aren't immigrants. Just random people in other countries that this person spliced together. "The images are fictional"
Load More Replies...FFS do you people have to take everything so literally? Don't you understand subtext when applied to art? My God grow up.
Load More Replies...Your Photoshop work colorizing these historic photographs is amazing! I love this series. Thank you for sharing!
I don't see why so many people got pissed. This project is trying to send a message. Read it.
Terrific Photoshop job and wonderful idea! Never mind the comments from those who have created nothing interesting.
Archive images were made at Ellis Island / New York of real Immigrants around the 1900's. Please read the text. Thank you! orphans-59...74383d.jpg
They're going to get run over and flipped off, standing in the middle of a NY street.
At present time, I'd jump at the chance to go to Canada, Switzerland, Geremany, France, the Netherlands, pretty much anywhere. The country is in the toilet. Corporate greed rules and dark money influences. Lying goes completely unpunished. Americans are brainwashed. Each day we lose more of the principles our country was founded on. I'm angry and disgusted by my own people. Never in my life have I felt this way, but we're not the best country on the planet.
Recognised the Georgian costume before the explanation. This costume is still worn now on special occasions. Me-and-Geo...ingers.jpg
This is r******d if you really cared about immigrants the you would give them food, water, and money. Not photoshop the into NY
It's called "art," and amazingly enough, people can have creative hobbies while also volunteering for causes they care about, working at non-profit organizations, and/or donating money to charities.
Load More Replies...https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellisislandnps/6905487520/in/album-72157629755325885
I love it, after more than one hundred years, we're available to compare different momments in human history, to create a new perspective about the past, the people within and to contrast it with ourselves and the present we're living. It's amazing how do we preserved momments while the time keeps it's course and our lives go with it.
Almost all of them look out of place, except the woman on the subway, leaning against her suitcase. That one looks best of all, and could have occurred just yesterday. :D
This is an insulting headline. Where was the frame of mind when this was created? This is not made by an artist but by a performer.
We assimilated, learned english and blended with everyone. It's NOT happening now
Immigration is an ongoing situation.
Load More Replies...The saturation of these photos are painful, it distracted from a pretty good idea
yes, because most of them stuck in Ellis Island.
Load More Replies.......said the descendents of Italian immigrants about Jews, descendents of Irish immigrants about Italians, descendents of British colonists about the Irish, and every Native nation about the British colonists, who were the only ones who actually DID lose their culture and homes. It's called America. None of us are supposed to be here.
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