I've spent 5 years creating this project called "Tiny Wasteland." The series features miniature figures placed next to everyday objects in order to create the illusion of microscopic worlds. Usually, I use food and trash in my setups and try to reflect on our world's issues, so I magnify these problems in the pictures.
I'm actually a food photographer, so the whole idea came from there. I've made about 200 pictures already from this tiny world; the rest you can find on my Instagram page.
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Plastific Ocean
I live on the coast and it really is heartbreaking seeing trash littering the beach. People leaving their broken beach chairs and sand toys because they were too lazy to carry it to a trashcan that is quite literally in your face as you leave the beach. The guys that pier fish and surf fish are no better. I picked up a bucket full of fishing line, rusted hooks & sinkers, crab traps, and miscellaneous fishing tools a few days ago. If you've never had to wrestle a fishing hook out of your flesh considered yourself lucky. People need to treat the world a little better and not sit back and waite on someone else to do it. My cleanups don't amount to much but if everyone did their little part it would make a huge difference.
My last trip to the beach looked very like this image... what is wrong with people?
Oh yes, the face masks, the plastic bottles, the q-tips and other garbage at the oceans, sad but true.
We really need to start cleaning up our oceans and helping the planet.
Zen Mushroom
When I was a child, I absolutely loved The Borrower books... they were just the thing to delight a kid... tiny people using human scale objects in clever ways... going to sea in a tea kettle... flying in a berry basket balloon. These are made of the same magic.
Trash(Ure) Of The Forest
My neighbor has been flipping lit cigarettes over my fence... again, what is wrong with people?
Stranger Tins
Jelly Skate
They need more jelly! I am afraid they'll fall on stuff sticking up from the surface...
Carbonara Kai
Wokbar
I love the detail on this one...I've already made up stories for every character.
Pet Love
Tin Whale
Everest
Somewhere In The Salty Forest
It reminds me the work of an japanese artist called Tatsuya Tanaka, you can find him os instagram, he posts pics exploring the miniature world like this everyday
Thank you very much for the tip, I googled and found the artist on IG and follow him now: https://www.instagram.com/tanaka_tatsuya/ I can´t post there myself without a mobile phone, but I can follow, like and comment. This is my account, but the add-on to post photos with a notebook only worked for one day, so there´re only 3 webcam selfies of me with my cats on my profile: https://www.instagram.com/marionfriedl1656/
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Thank you very much for the tip, I googled and found the artist on IG and follow him now: https://www.instagram.com/tanaka_tatsuya/ I can´t post there myself without a mobile phone, but I can follow, like and comment. This is my account, but the add-on to post photos with a notebook only worked for one day, so there´re only 3 webcam selfies of me with my cats on my profile: https://www.instagram.com/marionfriedl1656/
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