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Bustling cities come to life in fantastic overlapping photographs

Capturing moments of life within a bustling city, Wolfgang Hildebrand’s latest photography project, ‘Moments’, evokes a familiar yet surreal sight of the world.

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Overlapping photographs show a busy Hong Kong street corner with a yellow building, shops and blurred motion trails from passing vehicles and pedestrians

Overlapping photographs to create unique moments in time, the German photographer questions how we perceive time in general.

Taken at different times of the day, the minute changes between each photograph are sometimes hard to spot in the final merged image. Hildebrand’s eye-opening series inspires us to look closely at the world around us, no matter how busy, and notice the finer details of what is going on.

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Aerial view of a dense urban cityscape with overlapping buildings of varying heights, styles and colours, showing subtle variations in time and activity
Densely packed residential buildings in varying colours and states of repair in an urban cityscape, shot in bright daylight
Urban street scene with multiple exposures of motion-blurred traffic overlaid on a cityscape of tall buildings and street-level murals
Historic brick waterfront buildings with multiple bridges spanning a calm river in Hamburg's Speicherstadt district
A construction site surrounded by white barriers in a New York City street, with tall residential and commercial buildings under clear blue sky
Blue sedan parked on a city street beside a yellow brick wall with tall buildings and cloudy sky in the background
A wet urban street scene showing a modern white apartment building behind a low-rise shophouse with colourful signage, parked cars and motorbikes, with construction materials visible
Construction site with overlapping photographs showing a historic building surrounded by modern high-rises in an Asian city centre at different times of day
A desert roadside scene with a motel sign and various commercial buildings and signage during daytime, created through overlapping photographs
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