• A man sells balloons on top of a colourful pile of doughnuts. Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
    A man sells balloons on top of a colourful pile of doughnuts. Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
  • Firemen put out a fire with the lace of a Nike trainer. The image is anti-smoking with a caption reading - "take a breath of fresh air with Nike". Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
    Firemen put out a fire with the lace of a Nike trainer. The image is anti-smoking with a caption reading - "take a breath of fresh air with Nike". Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
  • A man is arrested trying to break into a salt shaker. The caption reads: "Bank robbery". Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
    A man is arrested trying to break into a salt shaker. The caption reads: "Bank robbery". Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
  • Workmen use a digger and shovels to lift up a square of chocolate. The caption beneath the image reads: "Very good business in the chocolate trade". Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
    Workmen use a digger and shovels to lift up a square of chocolate. The caption beneath the image reads: "Very good business in the chocolate trade". Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
  • A circus master rounds up his lion behind cage bars made by the prongs of a fork. The image is captioned as "Lion In a Cage". Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
    A circus master rounds up his lion behind cage bars made by the prongs of a fork. The image is captioned as "Lion In a Cage". Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
  • A man pulls a child on a sledge through a snow scene created by flour and pastry. The image is captioned as "In a Cheesecake Factory". Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
    A man pulls a child on a sledge through a snow scene created by flour and pastry. The image is captioned as "In a Cheesecake Factory". Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
  • A single life is represented as a battery. One one side a baby has just been born and on the other, a man is on his death bed. The title reads: "Life is Short". Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
    A single life is represented as a battery. One one side a baby has just been born and on the other, a man is on his death bed. The title reads: "Life is Short". Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
  • People watch a giant television screen, created by an iPhone. The other characters in the scene are doing household chores. Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
    People watch a giant television screen, created by an iPhone. The other characters in the scene are doing household chores. Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
  • A woman falls off her bike as she trips over some waste left on the ground. This scene has a social message in the caption: “Littering can cause you to fall off your bike, but most importantly it harms our environment. Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
    A woman falls off her bike as she trips over some waste left on the ground. This scene has a social message in the caption: “Littering can cause you to fall off your bike, but most importantly it harms our environment. Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
  • Men play basketball on a tiny court near Beats by Dre headphones. Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
    Men play basketball on a tiny court near Beats by Dre headphones. Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
  • A girl checks her reflection in the mirror of a dentist's tool. Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
    A girl checks her reflection in the mirror of a dentist's tool. Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
  • A summer’s day scene set around a BlackBerry screensaver. Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid
    A summer’s day scene set around a BlackBerry screensaver. Courtesy Omar Maree Humaid

Inside the macroworld of artist Omar Maree Humaid – in pictures

Olga Camacho

June 23, 2015

  • English
  • Arabic

Omar Maree Humaid 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. Here are some of his other works.

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