Introduction

Photography

How to Get Started in Toy Photography

Article and Photography by Sabrina Perry Instagram: @theperryadventures

As you flip through the pages of this Brickjournal issue, you may be in awe of the photography and toy photographers featured. You may ask yourself, “How? How did they do that?” And next you may wonder, “How do I do that?”

Believe me, I ask myself those same questions on a daily basis. I’ll be scrolling through Instagram wondering, “How do I compete with that?” Well, I am sorry but I don’t have the answers to these big questions. All I have to share with you is my journey, and what I did to become a toy photographer. Hopefully my path, my trials, and my triumphs will help you on your toy photography journey. I started taking toy photos in 2016 but didn’t consider myself a toy photographer until 2021. I started small, with one simple idea: To recreate moments from my life from the moment I met my husband to our wedding day, as a Christmas gift using two LEGO minifigures and my cell phone. I had read an article on BoredPanda about Andrew Whyte and his 365 LEGOGRAPHY Project and thought to myself, “I can do that. All he does is bring his Minifig around and snaps shots on his cell phone.”