Sarah Janine Guilbert

Tatsuya Tanaka, just like the photographer mentioned in the previous post; Christopher Boffoli, creates miniatures, although his style is a little bit different than Boffoli. Unlike Boffoli, Tanaka's subjects are not always placed in a context including food. No, quite the contrary actually, Tanaka uses small everyday objects, like the memory cards seen above. But those are not all.  These are very nice pieces as they explore real-life situations in unique ways. And even if we are aware that these are simply plastic figurines, there's this odd, yet pleasant, sense of authenticity. He has an interesting way of presenting his scenes, which I like very much. Here is more of his work...                                           

Living In A Food World Inspired by his own childhood, Boffoli, as creative as he is, began to photograph miniature people living in a world of big foods. He gives great importance to the 'background' thinking one must do before taking a photograph of this kind.  "You can't just stick a figure on a cupcake and call it a picture; you've got to think of the context  of what a character is doing. For me, the caption is a way to reinforce the humour and the action  in the photograph. People connect with the image first, but the caption gives it a snarky bump." I find he has an incredible way of making pictures look real even though we know they are fake. Using inanimate objects, we know it is just for the photo, and yet there is this moment  where we stop to think and say to ourselves that if  this was to happen,  this is exactly what it would look like. And although there is not a direct joke coming out of it, we cannot help but...

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     Eadweard Muybridge has a particular way of approaching grid photography. Unlike  famous photographers that create these types of photographs, like David Hockney,  who takes close-up shots in order to make up one big grid photography,  Muybridge creates a sort of narration. You can see that within majority of his work, there is a lot of motion  and it almost feels like a story is being told. Thanks to his approach,  we can witness the subject in his photographs during the integrity of the action they are doing  rather than only a split second of it.  Something I personally enjoy about Muybridge is that he explores  movement in both humans and animals.

Victor Tretiak is a Russian photographer who began his career in the year 2004.  He has done many projects such as Nevermind, Searching for the Whale, The Worst and The Best,  but the one that is of interest right now is 48 , for which he travelled many areas in Thailand for a duration of two years.  When asked about his project, he explains, “The idea was to create a photo that doesn’t stop moving. When you look around, your sight barely stops at anything for longer than half a second unless you are stoned or in love, each little photo is your half a second.”  Tretiak sometimes waited hours just to get the right lighting, creating beautiful grid-like photographs such as the ones below.