Photographing miniatures and models seems to be the all the rage. Here's some selects to start off the year of the diorama.

minimiam - Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle photograph miniatures among food stuffs. Their sets pair each macro shot with a reveal. Series include Sports and War. Their website is a bit difficult to work through in a Flash-navigation sort of way (also, it's in French, but the Flash is more of an issue), but some nice big pictures/documentation make it all worthwhile.

Les Intrus, from the Guerre series

Le Predateur from the Primeurs series

Lori Nix has a specific interest in the disaster movies of the 1970s and her memories of growing up in Kansas. My favorite is the still below.

Plane, from the Accidentally Kansas series

Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz create snowglobes with eery scenes. They're also the artists who created A Gathering, the public art installation in the Canal Street A/C/E subway stop (it's the one with the bronze birds sitting about the station).

Cold Front, 2004

TRAVELER 51 AT NIGHT, 2003 and TRAVELER 53 AT NIGHT, 2003

and there's more!

Audrey Heller has prints for sale ($75 and up) of more food/play. My old favorites The McCoys are making more miniatures-meet-cinema installations (and have a new show opening in March, as well as an appearance at Sundance). Vladimir is still making and selling handmade View Master ("Vladmaster") disks.