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A detailed miniature model of a Japanese street at night. Warm light glows from the windows and lanterns of traditional wooden buildings.

That cityscape you're looking at is made from cardboard. Cardboard!

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Date
15 October 2012

Sometimes you want a photograph to leap up and slap you in the face with its brilliance (not always though, obviously), taking your eyes on a journey they can scarcely believe. Andy Rudak’s Cardboard Cities does just that, tricking you into believing that you’re just looking at a moody moonlit cityscape. But the truth is there’s more to it than that – every single scene has been laboriously constructed from cardboard by master set-builder Luke Aan de Wiel before being carefully shot for maximum impact. We’re blown away by the results and reckon you might be too. Powerful stuff!

A small deer lies on a city pavement in front of a dark, weathered building. A brown wooden door and two windows overlook the street, beside a fire hydrant.
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Andy Rudak: Cardboard Cities

A barn owl perches in a dimly lit, industrial window frame. A single fluorescent light glows above the bird against a dark, weathered wall.
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Andy Rudak: Cardboard Cities

A digital painting of a quiet Japanese street at night. Glowing signs and lanterns cast a soft light across the dark facades of traditional and modern buildings.
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Andy Rudak: Cardboard Cities

A row of dilapidated wooden shacks stands against a black background. A small white dog stands alone in the muddy, dark foreground.
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Andy Rudak: Cardboard Cities

A dimly lit street scene at night, featuring a stone building with closed shutters and a wrought iron railing. A single street lamp casts a glow over a torn poster that reads “ESCARGOTS”, while a small dog sits alone on the pavement.
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Andy Rudak: Cardboard Cities

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James Cartwright

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James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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