Photography: Classical statues + hipster garb = genius from Léo Caillard

Date
17 June 2013

This has been blowing up on social media over the weekend and it’s not hard to see why. French photographer Léo Caillard has found a super-cheeky way of playing with our perceptions of past and present with his Hipster In Stone project. By depicting classical sculptures cloaked in the immediately recognisable garb of the flat-white-swilling, rolled-up-trouser-wearing archetypes, Leo has produced a series which is not only very funny, but leads us to question just how easily swayed we might be by someone’s outward appearance. Either that or ancient Rome was quite a lot like modern Dalston. You decide!

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Léo Caillard: Hipster In Stone (Retoucher Alexis Persani)

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Léo Caillard: Hipster In Stone (Retoucher Alexis Persani)

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Léo Caillard: Hipster In Stone (Retoucher Alexis Persani)

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Léo Caillard: Hipster In Stone (Retoucher Alexis Persani)

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Léo Caillard: Hipster In Stone (Retoucher Alexis Persani)

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Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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