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The volte-face of the photographer who turns his back on world landmarks

Taj Mahal, Agra, India

The scene at the scene of world attractions is identical everywhere. The tourists' cameras are facing the same direction. Well, only British photographer Oliver Curtis's camera, which photographs what's behind our backs, is pointed in the opposite direction, which no one pays too much attention to and which is often unfairly overlooked, even though it captures what gives it all its pulse. Check out Volte-face's interesting photo series.

When we visit world attractions, we have a habit of photographing them from the perspective from which the same landmark has been photographed before thousands of people ahead of us. So we return home with photos, which are already a little sea on the Internet.

Statue of Liberty, New York, USA.
Statue of Liberty, New York, USA

Only photographer Oliver Curtis he doesn't do that. While most of us quickly get caught up in a microcosm of famous locations and we point the cameras at only one point, it seems that he is moved by everything rather than, say, himself Taj Mahal, Wailing Wall, Mona Lisa, A statue freedomde and the famous Hollywood sign, so he prefers to photograph what most tourists, overwhelmed by the landmark, miss, all as part of a photo series Volte-face.

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Perhaps the scenes we otherwise turn our backs on are not scenes for covers and postcards, but it's also part of the package we get when we visit a famous location, so it deserves our attention.

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