Werning, Irina

Irina Werning studied Economics at the University of San Andrés in Buenos Aires. Two years later, she completed a postgraduate degree in history at the Universidad Di Tella in the same city. She moved to London, where in 2006 she earned a master's degree in Photographic Journalism from Westminster University, and that same year she received the Ian Parry and Gordon Foundation scholarships. A year later, she was selected for the Joop Swart Masterclass organized by the World Press Photo organization. Subsequently, she has won the Flash Forward awards from The Magenta Foundation in Canada in 2011, the Winner BURN 2011 Emerging Photographer Grant from the Magnum Foundation, and the Winner Fine Art Portraits in the SONY World Photography Awards in 2012. Her best-known work is a series of portraits titled "Back to the Future," which largely consists of diptychs composed of an old photograph of the subject and a modern one, taken 10 or more years later, of the same subject imitating the previous one in style, clothing, and posture. It's a reinterpretation of a childhood or youth photograph.