We heard about Audrey Heller through a friend of a friend. When they showed us a couple of her photographs of miniature people engaged in hurculean tasks, we never forgot them. Since then, we have seen similar work from Minimiam, and a trends seems to be growing.
Audrey Heller's photographs focus on the whimsical and the miniature, conjuring up whole worlds in tiny space. Her new stuff, "Head Shots," is dark and edgy. Audrey lives in the Bay Area, but sells all of her work online. Prints run from $75 to $235 and come framed or unframed, so this is certainly affordable art. (thanks, Johnny!)
Audrey's work is amazing, and it does indeed play on many different levels: the people are always so much smaller than real people, and the object they work with are always ten thousand times larger than they are in real life. And the colors - WOW. There are people who use ilfachrome (or fujichrome whatever they call it these days) and then there are people who know what to do with it! She's one of the latter.
I hope she's printing these things HUGE. I want to see those people walking on HUGE pennies. Or on exactly life-sized ones.
Terrific work.