Dancing with Costică

Australian artist Jane Long came upon the the Flickr archive of Costică Acsinte, a Romanian war photographer who documented WWI and passed away in 1984. Long was looking for a way to brush up on her retouching skills and the archive provided her with a treasure trove to work with. She digitally restored, colorized, and manipulated the half-century old black-and-white photos, transforming them into a whimsical and surreal series called Dancing with Costică .

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