How will people live in the year 2050? In “The Old World“ I am trying to imagine what our society could look like in the future. Probably we will encounter a completely different society. We will be surrounded by older waiters and waitresses, flight attendants and DJs.

No more young supermodels, but beautiful women with grey hair will smile at us from advertising billboards. Old age as a phenomenon is going through a new Renaissance (the hashtag #greynaissance is one of the popular ones on Instagram) and this is a reflection of the trend in our society.

And this is not a surprise – ageing of population in Europe and Asia (the so-called “old world”) will continue. In 2017, I started working on my project “The Old World”: I photographed beautiful elderly women posing with dignity on the balconies, with the landscape or cityscape as a background. Their classical poses remind us of Italian painting of the Renaissance. Today, in 2020, these photographs unexpectedly receive a new meaning though. Considered as a safe space today, balconies mean being visible to others, somehow still participating in public life, but from a safe distance. My images of elderly women standing on balconies suddenly reflect our current living conditions more than I could have ever imagined it myself.