Little People is a project by Slinkachu, a male artist from the UK which he started in 2006. He remodels and paints miniature models and places in the streets to photograph. Slinkachu says, "The scenes I set up, more evident through the photography, and the titles I give these scenes aim to reflect the loneliness and melancholy of living in a big city, almost being lost and overwhelmed. But underneath this, there is always some humour. I want people to be able to empathise with the tiny people in my works."
Official website http://slinkachu.com/home
Slinkachu's Blog http://little-people.blogspot.com/
Wonderland -2009
The Feast - 2006
They are Not Pets - 2007
Slinkachu scales the human figures in the size of an ant. Slinkachu also use a lot of found materials, such as litter and insects for the setting of his photographs. I think that minimizing the people makes us think differently of our surroundings. When the miniature figures that represent us are placed in an environment which seems much larger in scale, it makes it seem unfamiliar to us. For example, a puddle of water could be a lake, or a fly could be like a vulture. This makes us view things in a different way almost like imagining the perspective of an ant.
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