Big Appetites: Tiny People in a World of Big Food

Photographer Boffoli humorously and colorfully captures the disparity between large and small-scale objects, snapping photos of tiny toy people set against a backdrop of food. Playing into the “universal cultural obsession with toys and food,” the photo “Pop-Tart Fracking,” for example, depicts tiny construction workers excavating a Pop Tart with the caption: “It finally made economic sense to extract cinnamon and sugar from previously impractical places.” In “Unjolly Rancher,” a toy ranch hand with shovel is surrounded by chocolate drops and cows to illustrate that “a rancher’s work is never done.” In “Teacup Scuba,” two divers sit on the edge of a full cup where “Eric always had a healthy amount of anxiety before any deep-tea dive.” When the animals escape from the animal cracker boxes in “Rare Animal Breakout,” “the animals have but a brief taste of freedom before the poachers tried to reduce them to crumbs.” In “Twinkie Field Casualty,” two paramedics carry a body on a stretcher across mountains of the junk food, and the caption warns: “Sometimes the shelf life of the food exceeded that of the people eating it.” Photos from this series can be found in galleries around the world, testifying to their ability to entertain. Four-color photos throughout. Agent: Tina Wexler, ICM. (Sept.)