Models made for the camera
Model making and photography have a symbiotic relationship. In model making the idea is to create something that resembles real life, but there's no doubting that it is a model when it is in front of you. But add a camera and some light, and that which is real becomes less obvious. Minimiam is a project that plays with our minds as much as it plays with its subject. The team of Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle have produced a series of unordinary and extraordinary photos from their unusual models that delight as much as they confuse. While there's no doubting the cupcake is in fact a cupcake, the camera allows us to entertain the possibility of a cupcake world and cupcake workers. Link: Minimiam
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The success of the Minimiam photos is as much in their composition, as in their ability to evoke emotion. The war scenes are particularly compelling, while the workers examining a break in an eclair makes you feel for the one who has to repair it. Akiko and Pierre met at Arts Décoratifs de Paris where they studied photography.
