These Playful Pictures Of Toy Figures Pose Serious Questions

An artist from Sweden is going small to look at the bigger global picture. Camilla Hällgren places playful-looking miniature toy figures next to everyday items to create powerful photographs that throw the spotlight on pressing social issues. Inequality, power, immigration, democracy, gender and gun violence all come under the university researcher's gaze in her "Little Sweden Art" project. "Who are we in this big world? What does it mean to be human?" she says are the underlying questions that rule her work. "What does it mean to become a man or a woman?" A photo posted by Little Sweden Art (@littleswedenart) on Dec 22, 2015 at 9:52am PST Hällgren uploads her macro-style images with a brief caption to Facebook and Instagram. It's then up to the viewer to decipher their further specific meanings, she writes on her website. Her newest photograph (above) was posted three weeks ago and is an apparent commentary on the ongoing European migrant crisis. It depicts wooden hands cradling a boat called "Hope" which is packed full of miniature figures. Another image, with the description "Protecting the innocent," critiques gun violence with the figures painting a firearm with nail polish. A third photograph ponders over the destruction of the Earth as the toys sew up a squishy globe with the caption, "The kids won't notice." A photo posted by Little Sweden Art (@littleswedenart) on Apr 11, 2014 at 1:57am PDT Hällgren, who works for the mid-northern Ume...
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