{"id":21998,"date":"2022-12-05T09:44:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T09:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame"},"modified":"2022-12-05T09:44:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T09:44:57","slug":"the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame","title":{"rendered":"The photographer who puts little people in the frame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Angola. <\/strong><\/span>
\nSummer Vacation 2021 won in the Macro category at the British Photography Awards<\/p>\n

David Gilliver’s entry in this year’s British Photography Awards was a picture of a summer holiday with a difference.<\/b><\/p>\n

He won the top prize in the Macro category, a branch of photography that takes extreme close-up pictures of small objects, most often insects or flowers.<\/p>\n

But instead David took a picture of the familiar blue face masks that were worn everywhere during Covid and reimagined it as a swimming pool with tiny figurines enjoying vacation activities around it.<\/p>\n

“The idea was to approach a serious subject matter with a playful nature without trivialising it,” said the 43-year-old Scottish artist.<\/p>\n


\n‘Stay at Home’ – another from the miniature \u2018Pandemic\u2019 series<\/p>\n

It is a way of working that he first came across by accident when he was at Glasgow School of Art in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n

David said he was looking out of the window of a dentist’s waiting room when he saw a lorry in the street below had tipped over and landed on a car.<\/p>\n

He said he knew the situation was serious but from his unique perspective on the fourth floor it reminded him of the scenes he created with his toys as a young boy.<\/p>\n

David took a picture of the chaos on the street below, which did not result in serious injury, and when he was back at art school he recreated it using miniature figures.<\/p>\n

His professor was impressed.<\/p>\n


\n
\nDavid took a photo of the crash scene and then recreated in miniature at art school in 1998<\/p>\n

“Not only was it the first time I had received a strong compliment but I also thoroughly enjoyed doing it,” David said.<\/p>\n

“It gave me a new way of looking at things and making my art. From that point on I became obsessed with Macro photography and shooting figurines.”<\/p>\n

Over the past 20 years he has created thousands of photos of his “little people”, always using humour and playfulness as a way to present a more serious message.<\/p>\n


\n‘Incubation’<\/p>\n


\n‘Sweet tricks’<\/p>\n


\nFrom David’s \u2018Life in Plastic\u2019 series (to raise awareness about plastic pollution)<\/p>\n


\nAnother image from David’s Life in Plastic series<\/p>\n


\n\u2018Vegetarian Kebab\u2019 (Shortlisted in the 2022 Food Photographer of the Year awards)<\/p>\n


\n\u2018Shorthenge\u2019<\/p>\n


\n‘Five, six, pick up sticks’<\/p>\n


\n\u2018The finishing tape\u2019<\/p>\n


\n‘Mount Melon’<\/p>\n

After graduating from art school in 2001, making a living as an artist proved difficult. David ended working in finance in Guernsey for 14 years before returning to Scotland with his wife and baby girl about seven years ago.<\/p>\n

In 2018 he took the plunge and became a full-time artist, specialising in Macro photography and light painting.<\/p>\n

His home in Gartcosh, North Lanarkshire, is full of thousands of figurines – mainly intended for model railway enthusiasts – ready to find a home in his latest work.<\/p>\n

David said the pictures had become far broader and more interesting over the years.<\/p>\n

“The figurines are static so I am at the mercy of the poses I find them in,” David said.<\/p>\n

“It has been my job as an artist to give them something to do within a scene that looks visually interesting.”<\/p>\n


\nDavid Gilliver has thousands of figurines waiting for a role in his dioramas<\/p>\n

David exhibits his work across Europe and also hosts teaching workshops as well as collaborating with commercial partners.<\/p>\n

He said he loved showing people the techniques of Macro photography but there are some things it is difficult to teach.<\/p>\n

“The Macro work is 10% reliant on technical knowledge and it is 90% reliant on the imagination,” he said.<\/p>\n

“As an adult making work like this it is important to keep the imagination alive. I have got a young daughter now so it is unavoidable and critical that I do.<\/p>\n

“This style of photography very much taps into a childlike way of thinking. The more you do of it, the more you are able to access it. It’s like a muscle almost.”<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Angola<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Angola. Summer Vacation 2021 won in the Macro category at the British Photography Awards David Gilliver’s entry in this year’s British Photography Awards was a picture of a summer holiday with a difference. He won the top prize in the Macro category, a branch of photography that takes extreme close-up pictures of small […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":21997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[233,337,329],"class_list":["post-21998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-photo","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-angola","tag-angola"],"yoast_head":"\nThe photographer who puts little people in the frame - Angola<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The photographer who puts little people in the frame\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press – Angola. Summer Vacation 2021 won in the Macro category at the British Photography Awards David Gilliver’s entry in this year’s British Photography Awards was a picture of a summer holiday with a difference. He won the top prize in the Macro category, a branch of photography that takes extreme close-up pictures of small […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Angola\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-05T09:44:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2022\/12\/postMediaimg_1_1-638dd34b1be87.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"The photographer who puts little people in the frame\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-05T09:44:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame\"},\"wordCount\":680,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670226331.17.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Angola\",\"Angola\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"photo\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame\",\"name\":\"The photographer who puts little people in the frame - Angola\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670226331.17.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-05T09:44:57+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670226331.17.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670226331.17.jpg\",\"width\":976,\"height\":650,\"caption\":\"The photographer who puts little people in the frame\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The photographer who puts little people in the frame\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/\",\"name\":\"Angola\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The photographer who puts little people in the frame - Angola","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The photographer who puts little people in the frame","og_description":"Africa-Press – Angola. Summer Vacation 2021 won in the Macro category at the British Photography Awards David Gilliver’s entry in this year’s British Photography Awards was a picture of a summer holiday with a difference. He won the top prize in the Macro category, a branch of photography that takes extreme close-up pictures of small […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame","og_site_name":"Angola","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-12-05T09:44:57+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2022\/12\/postMediaimg_1_1-638dd34b1be87.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"The photographer who puts little people in the frame","datePublished":"2022-12-05T09:44:57+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame"},"wordCount":680,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670226331.17.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Angola","Angola"],"articleSection":["all news","photo"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame","name":"The photographer who puts little people in the frame - Angola","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670226331.17.jpg","datePublished":"2022-12-05T09:44:57+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670226331.17.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670226331.17.jpg","width":976,"height":650,"caption":"The photographer who puts little people in the frame"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/the-photographer-who-puts-little-people-in-the-frame#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The photographer who puts little people in the frame"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/","name":"Angola","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}