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Down memory lane
Past and present met at this year’s LSE Photo Prize exhibition, which took an unusual photographic journey through LSE’s history. Entitled Ghosts of the Past, the inventive photo project was displayed earlier this year as part of the School’s 120th anniversary celebrations. The haunting array of photographs conjures up reflections of LSE’s past, while at the same time revealing something of its present day. They were created by merging images from the LSE archives with pictures of today’s students and campus. Using juxtaposed shots of the same campus location, each photo creation shows just how much – or how little – the School has changed over the years. Students and staff also had the opportunity to submit their own creations, with LSE Postroom Operative Pawel Opaska named winner for his photograph (right) “Ghost in the Library”. Pawel Opaska said: “For a long time I believed that a picture taken by a camera should not be changed – either it is good or it isn’t. I had to give up this stance when I realised that nowadays photos are images; with what was captured by the camera a base to be improved, retouched and manipulated. I was looking for LSE archive pictures that could fit with the pictures I have taken myself, and I think what strikes people most is the contrast between the new, modern, illuminated and colourful interior of the library and the simple, black-and-white person in front of it.”
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View the pop-up exhibition online at lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSESocial/ LSEPerspectives/2015/03-March/Home.aspx Keep up to date with LSE’s 120th anniversary celebrations at lse.ac.uk/lse120 and #LSE120. 1 “ Ghost in the Library”, LSE Photo Prize 2015 Ghosts of the Past Winning Entry by Pawel Opaska 2 Houghton Street, c1970 and present day 3 B eatrice and Sidney Webb, c1942 4 S t Clements Press Building, c1959 and present day Waterstone’s, Clare Market 5 The Three Tuns, Houghton St, c1930s and present day 6 Keep-fit class in the gym, c1981 and Saw Swee Hock Student Centre gym, present day 7 Lionel Robbins Building, 1978 and present day 8 LSE Library, 1964 and present day 9 Shaw Library, 1964 and present day 24
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