Wigs, corsets, epaulettes: Peruvian recreated the portraits of his ancestors-the aristocrats
37-year-old artist and photographer from Peru's Christian Fuchs admired his great pedigree, consisting of European and Latin American aristocrats. This topic is so fascinated that a man engaged in recreating the portraits of ancestors in every detail. As a model for all the portraits he uses himself.
From concept to the final frame in each of the portraits may take a few months, and this includes the study of the history of their ancestors. Fuchs enlisted the help of a local jeweler, who helps him to make copies of the family jewels.
"I grew up surrounded by portraits and objects that belonged to five generations of my family. As a child I looked at the portraits and played with them. If I didn't know the names of the characters, I invented them. I remember staring at them for hours and felt like they look at me. Sometimes I talked with them, and apparently this led to the fact that I recreate," says the author of the photo project.
As soon as Fuchs ends the work on a detailed reconstruction of each portrait remains the final touch — insert the resulting work in the frame corresponding to the time period in which he lived, one or the other ancestor. This series of images — a great tribute to the past of his family, and if some of his characters were alive today, he would surely have been proud descendant.
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