ABSTRACT
Upon returning to a place with a photograph in the hands that shows the same site many years earlier, the recognition of congruencies between the image and the environment now conjures a different kind of thrill. This time the sensation of the past is less so a memory recalled than it is a potent trace of a bygone moment. This haunting is foregrounded in the burgeoning trend of personalised rephotography which juxtaposes past and present. This art form entails an old photograph superimposed on a new one, creating a peculiar time warp where photography's potential to document reality is complemented, as well as complicated, by the experience of time that has elapsed between the two layers of the photographic palimpsest. Time-bridges transform the experience of the life of place as here into there. This chapter demonstrates the case studies, which is imperative to the experience of the life of place as a photographic modality.
