Felix Hernandez builds worlds the way memory works. Quietly. Carefully. On a tabletop. He calls this art Dreamphography.
The Mexican photographer creates miniature scenes that feel cinematic and deeply familiar.
Snow-covered roads, fog-heavy landscapes, lone cars paused in silence. Nothing is full scale, yet everything feels convincingly real.
Using modest materials and patient lighting, Hernandez constructs environments piece by piece. Flour becomes snow.
Smoke becomes atmosphere. A small model becomes a place you swear you have been before.
The illusion succeeds not because of cleverness, but because of restraint. You are not asked to admire the trick. You are invited to step into it.
He calls this approach Dreamphography, a practice less concerned with documenting the world as it is and more focused on revealing how it lingers in the imagination.
The work lives somewhere between photography, sculpture, and quiet storytelling.
There is something reassuring in these images. In a time of constant spectacle and endless scale, Hernandez reminds us that wonder does not require magnitude.
Believability comes from the mood itself. The scale is optional.
And sometimes the most expansive worlds are the ones built slowly, by hand, with care.
Felix Hernandez builds worlds the way some people remember childhood. Slowly. Intentionally. On a tabletop.
See more go Hernandez’s work on his website or Instagram.
Images © Copyright Felix Hernandez. Used with permission.
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