From Tokyo Weekender. This is really a wonderful introduction to a person and art form that I previously had no awareness of.
Tanaka is a photographer of mitate, an art form that requires the admirer to look beyond the final composition to discover visual puns and other layers of meaning hidden in plain view. It’s a role he’s done better than anyone else for over a decade. The mitate he photographs are his tiny worlds, for which he references miniature — the small representation of something — and diorama, which refers to 3D depictions of scenes or environments.
Here is the Wikipedia entry on mitate.
He does these miniature scenes every day on his website, Miniature Calendar, taking around four hours to craft the images. He also has an Instagram account. Both are well worth following.
