Most of us start losing our wild
childish imaginations when we grow up, but not Akiko Ida and Pierre
Javelle. Since 2002, these two professional food photographers
(previously written about here) have
been shooting a playful series of dioramas called MINIMIAM (“miam” is
French for “yum”) that place miniature people in a world of over-sized
food
In their dioramas, Javelle and Ida
arrange miniature model train figurines in everyday positions and
situations that connect playfully with the fruits, vegetables, pastries
and other foods that they use in the photographs. Although the main
purpose of the images was simply to create a series of images that will
make people smile, some of them take on issues like global warming and
our relationship with nature
