Ghosts of WWII: Sergey Larenkov's Photoshopped historic photos blend past with present

Russian photographer (and Photoshopper) Sergey Larenkov merges WWII-era photos with contemporary shots of identical locations in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Leningrad, and other European cities, to haunting effect. Many entries filled with images in sets organized by city at his livejournal.

(via mymodernmet.com, via Todd Lappin).

Update: Oops, Cory blogged this artist's work some 8 months ago, but I'll go ahead and leave mine up, since the livejournal includes new work, and this post points to an English-language explanation that wasn't available before.

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