WORDS Mary Garner IMAGES via encolhiaspessoas on Instagram
Renan Viana is a Brazilian photographer whose shrunken people project provides an imaginative way of viewing the grind of daily life.
He started with the micro characters concept back in 2014 after finding a box of miniatures. “I was impressed by the perfection of the details and the ideas of photos began to appear at the same time,” he explains on his website. “I came home and started researching on the subject, and I saw some fantastic work by photographers around the world. I then decided to use the dolls to create a project where I ‘shrink people’ and put them in unusual scenes, leading me to imagine what it would be like to be so small in that situation.”
Instagram has become central to his process, as it’s proven to be the ideal platform to showcase his work with its “pocket gallery” quality.
Here are 13 of our favourite micro scenes.
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