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Photography then and now

Two photographs taken from exactly the same viewpoint at different times in history
  • The gutted Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, now known as the A-Bomb Dome, after the bomb on 6 August 1945, and today.

    After the A-bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki then and now – in pictures

    Exactly 70 years ago the US dropped the atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, on Hiroshima, killing 140,000 of its 350,000 citizens. Three days later, a second bomb, Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki. Photographer Issei Kato has paired archive images of the ruins with how they look today
  • Bodies at the Dunker Church in Antietam, Maryland, September 1862. The battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single-day battle in US history, and Dunker Church was the focus of Union attacks against the Confederates. In 1921, a storm destroyed the church, but it was rebuilt for the 100th anniversary of the battle in 1962.

    The American civil war then and now – interactive

    The women who dug the graves, the kids who saw the largest battle in US history – and the slaves forced to help fighters at the front. 150 years after the last shots were fired, Guardian photographer David Levene travelled across the US photographing sites scarred by the American civil war
  • Moscow, GUM store, 1973 and 2015

    Москва: теперь и сейчас. Наш интерактивный гид с фотографиями из архива Guardian

  • Moscow's GUM store, then and now

    Moscow then and now – interactive with photographs from the Guardian archive

  • Port Elizabeth's old coast road, circa 1970.

    Then-and-now images show how apartheid tore the soul out of a South African community

    A new exhibition, Double Vision, explores the impact of the forced removal of inhabitants from Port Elizabeth’s South End neighbourhood to segregated townships
  • An Australian soldier lies wounded in the foreground as hundreds of other troops move among the dead and wounded on the beach at Anzac Cove on the day of the landing

    Allies' campaign in Gallipoli 1915 and now – interactive

    Sean Gallup has photographed locations around the Gallipoli peninsula to match with archive images from 100 years ago of the ill-fated campaign – now regarded as one of the Allies’ greatest defeats of the first world war
  • Composite for The Guardian's Anzac interactive showing troops landing at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915 and the present day

    Anzac Cove and Gallipoli: then and now – interactive

    To mark the centenary of the Gallipoli landings, Guardian Australia photographer Mike Bowers visits the historic sights that feature in the most memorable photographs from the campaign, and captures how they look today
  • Then & Now composite photo of King Williams St in South Australia.

    Australia's urban jungle: then and now – in pictures

    From a bustling King William Street in South Australia to the rise of new skyscrapers along the coastline of Surfers Paradise, this series of blended photographs captures Australia’s urban development over the past century
  • Football then and now

    Football stadiums then and now – interactive quiz, part two

    Can you identify 10 British football stadiums from historical photographs? Study the photos for clues, make your choice and watch as the image fades into a present-day photograph taken from the same perspective
  • The Haiti earthquake five years on

    The Haiti earthquake five years on - then and now

    On 12 January 2010, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, leaving more than 220,000 people dead and over 300,000 injured and resulting in a humanitarian crisis
  • Football grounds: then and now quiz

    Football stadiums then and now - interactive quiz

    Can you identify 10 British football stadiums from historical photographs? Study the photos for clues, make your choice and watch as the image fades into a present-day photograph taken from the same perspective
  • Chelsea Then&Now

    Chelsea's Stamford Bridge – then and now

    Explore the history of Stamford Bridge stadium, home of Chelsea Football Club, as part of our new sporting series of then and nows
  • A general view of the destroyed coastline in Taclaban City on November 17, 2013 in Leyte, Philippinesand the view overlooking Magallanes district one year after Typhoon Haiyan.

    Typhoon Haiyan: the city of Tacloban one year on - interactive

    A year after Tacloban was torn apart by typhoon Haiyan, Getty photographer Chris McGrath returns to the devastating scenes he photographed 12 months ago.Click on the image from the aftermath of the typhoon to reveal the scene today
  • 1 November 1977: West Berliners look at a memorial to East Germans who had died trying to flee East Berlin. 6 April 2014: A young man rides a bicycle along the embankment on the Spree River behind the Reichstag.

    The Berlin Wall in the cold war and now - interactive

    The city of Berlin will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November. The wall split the city from 1961 to 1989 and became the iconic symbol of the cold war. Sean Gallup has photographed locations around Berlin today to match with archive images of when the city was divided
  • Trees surround the Somme canal in Frise, France, 2014. The British Army On The Western Front, March 1917.

    The western front in 1917-1919 and now – interactive

    Bomb damage in Paris, the Meuse-Argonne offensive by US troops, the destruction of Ypres and the creation of the Cenotaph in London ... archive photographs of significant events of the first world war in Belgium, France, Ireland and England are matched with the locations today
  • Soldiers stand at the ramparts in Ypres, Belgium, in November 1917

    The western front in the first world war and now – interactive

    Archive photographs of significant events of the first world war in Belgium, France and England are matched with the locations today
  • A French soldier in the ruins of Verdun after German bombing In 1916.

    The ruins of Verdun, 1916 … and now – interactive

    A French soldier walks in the ruins of Verdun in 1916 – the latest from our weekly series of interactive photographs to mark the centenary of the first world war
  • People walk near Reims cathedral on 11 March 2014.  Reims Cathedral during the bombardment on 30 April 1917.

    Reims cathedral is bombarded in April 1917 … and now – interactive

    The city of Reims is bombarded on 30 April 1917 – the latest from our weekly series of interactive photographs to mark the centenary of the first world war
  • November 1915:  Mounted Australian soldiers ride through London during the Lord Mayor's Procession.

    Here comes the cavalry: Australian soldiers on horseback in London, 1915 … and now – interactive

    Australian soldiers ride along Fleet Street on horses in London in November 1915 – the latest from our weekly series of interactive photographs to mark the centenary of the first world war
  • November 1915: British soldiers inspecting a captured German plane at the Horse Guards Parade, London. 17 June 2014: A woman takes a photograph in front of the Horse Guards Building. Photographs by Topical Press Agency/Getty/Richard Saker/The Guardian

    A captured German plane on Horse Guards Parade, 1915 … and now – interactive

    British soldiers inspect a captured German plane in London in 1915 – the latest from our weekly series of interactive photographs to mark the centenary of the first world war
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