These stunning Lego minifig photos are a fantasy genre all their own

polygon.com:

In the right hands, Lego sets are a form of storytelling. Whether following the prescribed on-the-box exploits of pirates, explorers, and starship captains or scrapping the instruction booklets to mix and match into genre-bending adventures, kids and adults alike have spent the last half-century constructing stories alongside their blocky structures. The artists involved with Lego in Focus, a new photography book from Chronicle Books, take that form of play one step further.

For Lego in Focus, 30 photographers from around the world grabbed their Lego minifigs to stage surreal setups that range from mundane scenes of everyday life to the microscopically fantastic. Polygon’s exclusive look at the book delves into the latter, the creations of photographers drawing from horror, sci-fi, pulp adventure… and their own Lego pastimes.

Below, find a few selections from Lego in Focus, out in stores on Oct. 4, and hear from the artists behind them. Prepared to get inspired — and very upset that there are currently no plans for another Lego Movie sequel set in the real world.

By Danny Hilkman Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, Québec, Canada

When I travel, I always take along one or two minifigures. Funny thing is that whenever I have my camera and Lego minifigures along I perceive the world differently, from a minifigure perspective to be precise. A rock becomes a mountain, a small plant becomes a giant tree, a small ant becomes a well-sized, worthy adversary. When I visited Canada, I noticed this lovely light strike this tiny mushroom. It brought me a feeling of delicate beauty in a vast world; the little pleasures, hidden for everyone to find once they look. My monster minifigure (I call him “Dwaas”) just had to be there, enjoying himself