“Small changes in point of view can lead to big changes in consciousness. I think this is the role of photography and it’s what makes photography interesting.”

Naoki Honjo’s parochial birds-eye landscapes and cityscapes appear at once familiar and removed, simple and disorienting, real and fake. The Tokyo-based photographer ingeniously manipulates lighting, scale, perspective, focus and colour to invoke a sense of small-scale falseness about the environments we live in.

Small Planet was the name of Naoki’s exhibition at Paul Smith’s galleries in London and Tokyo, and the title of the accompanying publication available in Australia through Kinokuniya.

Know what’s big in Japan? Small. It’s huge!

At the other end of the spectrum from the mass produced R-Ment miniaturised worlds  is the hand made ’small craft’ of 9square. Rieko Tanaka has been creating her tiny paper artworks under the moniker 9square since 2005 and this pint size letter writing kit by gets our little tick of approval. For more paper ideas from the land of origami see Made By Paper, a beautifully published showcase of Japanese paper artists like Papirklip, To Kichi, Tsuji Keiko and Ayame Kikuchi.