Heritage is a photograph by Alex Esguerra which was uploaded on July 12th, 2012.
Heritage
It's important to remember where you came from. It defines a lot about who you are, from the basics of the appearance all the way down to mannerisms.... more
Title
Heritage
Artist
Alex Esguerra
Medium
Photograph
Description
It's important to remember where you came from. It defines a lot about who you are, from the basics of the appearance all the way down to mannerisms. Airlines are no different. In the day and age where various carriers are merging like it's going out of style, a company's heritage speaks volumes on it's business culture just as surely as it explains how it's route structure came into existence.
In "Heritage" I elected to use an airline that just recently went through a merger. I photographed two of the company's 757s (one in current livery and the other not-quite-to-the-paint-shed-yet) with a large puddle in the foreground creating a reflection of both. Then through splicing, I created a near mirror image with the aircraft in the outdated paint reflecting back up at the one in the present colors. The impression I wanted to convey in this image is that the newer aircraft is looking back at its past. Two other things further enhance the whole past-n-present concept: first is that the one in current colors is a more advanced "winglet" variant while the other is not, and I applied a filter to the lower 757 to give it dated appearance.
"Heritage" was a customer-requested project (retired flight attendant) now available for general sale.
Uploaded
July 12th, 2012