Photos: teeny-tiny people on top of food

Posted by Xeni Jardin, February 16, 2006 2:04 PM |


Macro photos of tiny human figurines atop edible items transformed into landscapes. My favorite, cropped above, is a hazmat team on the scene of a crème brûlée spill.

BoingBoing reader Yana, who submitted the link, says -- "Most are Russians doing what they (we) do best: working. From sweeping up a sugary dish, to surveying a crevice in an eclair, to mowing the furry lawn of a kiwi skin." Link

Correction: while the photos may have been re-posted on a Russian-language blog, BB reader Marc Huneault explains:

Those wonderful images of tiny people on food are not Russian at all, but are the work of culinary photographers Akiko Ida And Pierre Javelle: Link
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