Trope Stories: Tobi Shinobi

Trope Stories: Tobi Shinobi

Chicago and London-based photographer, Tobi Shinobi, discusses his particular attention to detail and composition, how lessons in law have influenced the artist he has become, and the meaning behind his solo book Equilibrium.

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Equilibrium is the sixth book from Trope's Emerging Photographers series and features Tobi's photographs that explore and deconstruct architecture and nature until they appear as optical illusions. His vertigo-inducing perspectives turn familiar vistas into abstractions and reality into a fantasyland of line and shape.

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