Famous photos recreated in LEGO
Photographer Mike Stimpson photographs plastic toys, particularly LEGO. His Flickr stream is loaded with lovely, colourful photographs of everyone’s favourite stackable block — including a super fun Star Wars set.
But it’s his LEGO recreations of famous photos, like Raising the flag on Iwo Jima or National Geographic’s Afghan Girl, that I find particularly interesting.
It was strange seeing the recreation of that Vietnam photo with the guy about to be executed in the street and the monk burning himself.
In lego with all the smiley faces the images become… creepy.
What an odd occupation to specialise in photographing lego ! I mean of course there would be someone doing that but It’s not an occupation I ever thought of :P