Photographer of Note: slinkachu

slinkachu
"Little People - a tiny street art project"
http://little-people.blogspot.com/

slinkachu is an artist based in London, UK, who specializes in creating street art installations of a diminutive nature.  His photographs of his scenes are always triptychs, showing the art itself, and then its magnitude in relation to the scene around.  It is a fantastic art form, and the photographs demonstrate the differences between the scenes and the 'real' world.  The juxtaposition is creative and his use of found materials (shoelaces, bottle caps, insects, etc.) and a seemingly endless supply of small figures and props makes me think back to a TV show of the 1990s, Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers, who had a female mouse engineer, Gadget, who similarly inventions out of found materials.  The show also had small protagonists in a large world, which helps the comparison a little bit. 

  However, slinkachu's creations are not all for kids, as some deal with current topics like mosque zoning approval and smoking.  Quite a few also seem to be about loneliness, which makes sense for small figures in a full-scale world.  The diversity of scenes that slinkachu creates, coupled with his great photography emphasizing the scene and its relation to the street around, makes each installation unique and fantastical.  Enjoy.