With an anti-tourist, photographer Oliver Curtis wanted to show the other side of monuments through the world. His series Volte-face shows his approach well since he visited the Taj Mahal, the Statue of Liberty, The Great Wall of China, Christ the Redeemer and Greek ruins by pointing his camera at the opposite side of each monument. The other side is sometimes as beautiful but often, it’s less poetical to contemplate.
Taj Mahal, Agra, India.
Statue of Liberty, New York, USA.
Angel of Independence, Mexico City, Mexico.
Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C., USA.
Reichstag, Berlin, Germany.
Parthenon, Athens, Greece.
Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, Israel.
Lenin’s Tomb, Moscow, Russia.
Mao Mausoleum, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China.
St. Mark’s Square, Venice, Italy.
Mona Lisa, Louvre, Paris, France.
Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico.
Great Wall of China, Mutianyu, China.
