A look into Omar Maree Humaid’s miniature world of unlimited possibilities

A man dressed in formal Emirati wear stands beside a Bugatti Veyron. This might seem like a common UAE scene, but both figure and car are dwarfed by a stack of playing cards, one of them upright. In another image, tiny folk lounge around a pool created by the screen saver on a BlackBerry phone, the prongs of an electric plug doubling as diving boards.

This is Omar Maree Humaid’s little world, which he started on Instagram in 2011 and now has more than 51,000 followers.

The 34-year-old Emirati, who works for Abu Dhabi Police, creates elaborate “sets” featuring miniature toy figurines (the kind that are usually sold with model railway sets), which he then captures using macrophotography. It takes at least three or four hours to create each scene and shoot it.

Click here to see a photo gallery of his work

Initially, Humaid bought the figurines from Japan, but eventually located the makers’ factory in Germany and now buys them from the source. Many of his images are representative of his country. For example, when Ramadan began, he put figures of a horse and a kandura-clad man atop a pile of dates, with a caption in Arabic wishing all his followers a blessed month. The Arab models in his work are special commissions and each takes up to two months to make.

Original article by Anna Seaman

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