If you spend some time browsing The Commons for long enough, you’re liable to run into the research filled comments of Flickr member lifeasdaddy.

He’s currently taking contemporary photographs around Sydney, Australia, of places shown in historic images displayed on Flickr by the Powerhouse Museum, collecting them in a set. Here are some examples, alongside their historical counterparts.

Queen Victoria Markets (now Queen Victoria Building), Sydney ca. 1900 and 2008:

Powerhouse Museum	lifeasdaddy
THEN	NOW

George Street at Hunter Street, Sydney ca. 1900 and 2008:

Powerhouse Museum	lifeasdaddy
THEN	NOW

This collection is in turn part of a larger collection being assembled by the Powerhouse Museum in a group called Tyrell Today, which not only contains lifeasdaddy’s deliberate “rephotographs” but also photographic matches from other Flickr members that have been found by the museum staff searching through Flickr.

Coogee Beach, ca. 1900 and 2008:

Powerhouse Museum	betta design
THEN	NOW

Tags: Powerhouse Museum, Tyrell Today

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