From NPR:
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. Boffoli's scenarios, and especially his captions, evoke New Yorker cartoons — many are dark and humorous. “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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