The dubious fruits of photographer Oliver Curtis’ four year project to visit famous places and point his camera in the opposite direction.
Above: Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro; Wailing Wall, Jerusalem; Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan; Stonehenge; the Great Wall of China*; Mona Lisa, Louvre and Lenin’s Tomb, Russia.
(*wheeee!)
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((H/T: Graeme Kelly)
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Oooh nice.
I’ve always liked visiting these sorts of national icons and then seeing what’s in the immediate vicinity. Dunkin’ Donuts beside the Brandenburg Gate, Irish-themed pub beside the Louvre (gone when I visited last November), beach shop (buckets and spades) beside the Sagrada Famalia etc.
This is really original and interesting. Well done!
the experience of visiting places like this is you, well I, spend more time looking for it (mona Lisa being an example, it’s the size of a postage stamp with all the Chinese tourists in the way) or looking around because you’re on or in it.
I wonder if that why there are so many selfies taken…people trying to take photos of interest things but have the cameraphone set the wrong way!
It’s like people can’t find enough ways to waste time and resources.
Yeah he should have been at a desk making money for someone else.
I’m sorry, what?
apology accepted
Have to admit to suffering from elephant-in-room syndrome when it comes to famous sights. e.g. visited the second tallest building; ignored the Van Gogh and went for the Titian; punted in the shade not the sun; lay on the shingle not the sand etc etc.
I like it :-)
drivel
Cool, although I’m a bit disappointed that he missed the Pizza Hut across the road from the Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza
Regarding that photo of the Great Wall of China.
That’s a luge type ride you can take back down the hill for I think €8. Great fun.
Are you sure pic three is Pyramid of the Sun….. looks awful green to be that…..
just me, I guess.
Do you think the Pyramid of the Sun is in Egypt?
That nice view of the bay is much nicer than the Redeemer statue; especially if you were taking a photo from right at the pedestal, you wouldn’t be able to see much.
Christ the view stealer!
I’m always surprised at how small that statue is. I mean, it’s huge up close and all the photos of it are taken while hovering over it’s shoulder or at its base but from Rio itself, it’s tiny. If you’re looking for it while watching the scenes Moonraker shot in Rio, you have to squint.
Definitely a ‘these cows are small…’ moment.
…ah look…theres a brand new JCB skulking behind that fence in Pic 2 from Jerusalem…no doubt on its way to demolish a few more Palestinian homes or participate in the latest land grab for settlers in east Jerusalem…
there are Palestinian homes in danger directly the Wailing Wall? Never realised.
…no silly…you bulldozed those back in 1967…but you managed to bury a few people alive even then without nice new JCBs.
St. John Smythe is an Israeli construction worker?
The Mao Mausoleum one on his site is great.