Photography: Classical statues + hipster garb = genius from Léo Caillard
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!
Léo Caillard: Hipster In Stone (Retoucher Alexis Persani)
Léo Caillard: Hipster In Stone (Retoucher Alexis Persani)
Léo Caillard: Hipster In Stone (Retoucher Alexis Persani)
Léo Caillard: Hipster In Stone (Retoucher Alexis Persani)
Léo Caillard: Hipster In Stone (Retoucher Alexis Persani)
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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.
