Photographer Peeks Inside Cheap Plastic Toys with X-Ray Photo Series
Australian photographer Brendan Fitzpatrick uses images to document the hidden side of things. More specifically, he documents the inside of things.
Having turned his sights on flora and fauna, Fitzpatrick decided to peek inside the world of cheap plastic children’s toys for his series Invisible Light.
Once he has a toy subject in hand, he visits radiology labs in order to borrow their medical X-Ray machines. The resulting images are black and white, so some color infusing is done to turn strange looking X-Ray images into colorful works of art.
The series shows that even toys that are relatively simple and cheap on the outside can be filled with quite a bit of intricacies when you look inside:
You can view larger versions of these photographs and purchase prints over on the project’s website.
Invisible Light (via Wired)
Image credits: Photographs by Brendan Fitzpatrick and used with permission