Photos: Enter A World Of Cupcake Sledding And Broccoli Lawns
Lots of us play with our food. But for photographer Christopher Boffoli, it's become a full-time career.
Boffoli rose to fame a couple of years ago. You may have seen some of his photographs — amusing dioramas featuring miniature plastic figurines in dramatic settings crafted from food — when they went viral back in 2011. More than 200 such images — at least half of which, Boffoli says, have not been previously published — are collected in a new book, Big Appetites.
There is something evocative of a New Yorker cartoon about Boffoli's scenarios: Eye-catching on their own, they often take a slightly dark, humorous turn that becomes fully apparent when you read the caption.
"I love the idea of taking something whimsical that people expect to be fun and turning on the fulcrum of their expectations to something more disturbing," Boffoli tells The Salt.
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