Culture: city shrinker

Ben Thomas is shrinking cities. At first glance his work look like stunningly built models but they are in fact photos using tilt shift techniques. He says “You see amazing things every day. It could be out the window of the train on your way to work, it could be in your back yard, even better it could be somewhere completely foreign, something you didn’t know existed. My aim is to give that feeling of newness with each shot I take. My method is to take what was once large and shrink it down to model size. To take the familiar and get you thinking even if for a second “wait a minute, is that…”