Photography Then and Now in The Guardian

March 10, 2021 2:06 AM

A series of Then and Now photographic essays from The Guardian With a cool interactive slider feature that lets you scroll the view from Then to Now. Trigger warnings: includes some images shot immediately after various natural and manmade disasters, cities before and after COVID and documentation relating to the extent of Uighur burial grounds in China.
posted by Chairboy (3 comments total)

These are really interesting, at first I was wondering how (why) they took the "then" pictures in, say, the Japan tsunami set but then I realized the disaster pix were the "then" set in those, with the clean-up pix coming (much) later. The slider effect makes it all the more impressive in most cases. Thanks for posting!
posted by chavenet at 6:52 AM on March 10, 2021 [1 favorite]

Looking at the tourist sites I briefly thought that seemed like a nice reprieve from the usual crush of people swarming through, but then I felt bad for all of the small vendors, guides, drivers, and all of the other tourism-related workers who must be hanging on by absolute threads at this point.
posted by Rora at 5:14 PM on March 10, 2021 [1 favorite]

Then and now: China's destruction of Uighur burial grounds

"...Satellite images of a graveyard in Aksu, Xinjiang province, in 2015 where Uighur poet Lutpulla Mutellip was buried, and the same view in 2019 showing a new area called Happiness Park."

The total obliteration of a culture and its history is so profoundly frightening and disturbing.
posted by y2karl at 2:23 AM on March 13, 2021 [1 favorite]