Jessica McDermott

Fifty Decades to Visit Before You Die is a long-term photography series: part self-portrait project, part time-travellers’ guide to the past. How can you understand what living through history was like unless you book yourself a ticket and find out? 

What I noticed was history repeats itself. And as patterns emerged, I began making my GIFs. Turning my passport photographs as historical characters into moving portraits that shift from one decade to the next and back again. On an endless loop.

Fifty Decades to Visit Before You Die: The GIFs