Brooklyn photographer Lori Nix works with miniatures and model to create surreal scenes and landscapes.
She can spend weeks, if not months, hand-fashioning tabletop dioramas specifically to capture in just the right light with her camera.
Her project “The City” depicts eerie abandoned buildings in a post-apocalyptic world.
The City by Lori Nix:
“I have been building dioramas and photographing the results since the early 1990s. As I’ve working through various bodies of work, from Accidentally Kansas, Lost and now The City, my fabrication skills have improved and my subject matter has become more complex. With The City series I have moved indoors, creating architectural interiors. This has proven most difficult yet most rewarding.
Currently it takes about seven months to build a scene and two to three weeks to shoot the final image.
I build these in my Brooklyn living room. I have miniature power tools throughout the apartment, a chop saw under the kitchen table, a miniature table saw on top. The computer room doubles as a model mock-up room. There are two of us who work on them, myself and my partner Kathleen. We split the work according to our strengths. I come up with the concept, the color palette and the lighting scenarios.
I build the structures out of extruded foam and glue and paint and anything else handy. Kathleen is trained as a glass artist, specializing in cast glass work. She can paint faux finishes and gild architectural details with gold leaf.
After I’m done building the structure and painting it, she comes in and adds dirt and distresses the walls to make it look old and decrepit.”
Photos by: Lori Nix
Via Laughing Squid, CoolHunting
