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Photographer Jan Langer’s ‘Faces Of  Century’ project in which Czech centenarians re-enact the poses of photographs taken of themselves 70 or 80 years earlier.

Short biographies of the subjects can be found at the ⓘ below each pair of photographs on the site.

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Jahrhundertmensch is a project by German photographer Karsten Thormaehlen who photographed more than 40 centenarians between 2006 and 2012.

Many of the portraits feature in Thormaehlen’s books Living A Century (2008) and Happy At One Hundred (2011).

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