Christopher Boffoli

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 giggle a little because, 

the way he creates the contexts in which his characters are, is humerous.