This post was originally published on Toy Photographers.
This is the story of the toy photo that set me on my path. From this photo, I never looked back. This, is my one photo that changed it all.
The longer it’s been since I made my college narrative project, the more I realize how defining it has been to my future photos.
The Series
5 images. A car, a car and a house, a man knocking on a door, a man handing a woman a box, and a woman standing alone with the box. Simple. Mostly.
I made the set with a model train N scale car, figures (about 1 cm tall) and house, scale model scenery and real dirt. Never had I delved into the world of train scale before, so when the items arrived in the mail the night before the project was due the heat was on in learning…