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    Around the World in Cut-Outs
    Around the World in Cut-Outs
    Around the World in Cut-Outs
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    Around the World in Cut-Outs

    By Paperboyo

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    The world is so much more than it seems! With only paper, scissors, a camera, and his vivid imagination, globe-hopping artist Paperboyo transforms real iconic landmarks and settings around the world into works of art and amusement by just holding up a cutout and snapping a photo. Here is New York's Guggenheim Museum as a flowerpot, the Eiffel Tower sporting butterfly wings, a giant octopus peeking its tentacles out of the Roman Colosseum, and nearly a hundred more images of wonder and humor. Featuring favorites from his wildly popular Instagram feed plus many never-before-seen delights, entertaining captions, behind-the-scenes, and cutouts for readers to make their own images, Around the World in Cutouts encourages a different and delightful view of the world around us.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateMar 13, 2018
    ISBN9781452171067
    Around the World in Cut-Outs
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    Paperboyo

    Paperboyo (aka Rich McCor) is a London-based artist and photographer and enthusiastic world traveler.

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      Around the World in Cut-Outs - Paperboyo

      THANKS

      INTRO

      I’m not the first person to start a book with this quote, and I won’t be the last:

      When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.

      Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1777

      I was sitting on the 137 bus on the way home from work a few years ago, watching the familiar London scenery blur past me, when the bus stopped and on the street I noticed a group of tourists laughing with each other as they took photos. My elbow was resting against the window with my palm squashing my face, and I suddenly felt quite boring. I was living in a city that attracted millions of people from around the world, and yet here I was, keen to get home to reheat some pasta. I guess it’s pretty natural when you become familiar with your surroundings that you lose a sense of wanderlust, but I didn’t want to let go of it. I wanted to feel that inquisitiveness and sense of adventure that I had when I was backpacking, so I made a conscious effort to find wanderlust in London by exploring the city and doing the things that tourists did. I needed a travel companion, though, so I picked up my camera and took it with me.

      Fast forward a couple of months and I’d seen Trafalgar Square fill with a golden sunrise, I’d snapped the distant horizons of London from the top of Monument, and I’d nestled among excited tourists as the sun fell behind Westminster. Along the way I’d seen things I’d ignored before, I’d met fascinating people, and I’d constantly been surprised by history that I’d previously been so oblivious to. And now, every time I had my camera with me, I had that excitement you feel when you’re on an adventure. I spent almost every evening and weekend over those two months becoming a tourist in my own city and I loved it.

      By this point photography was still just an excuse to go and explore, but I was paying more attention to the craft because when I joined Instagram, I noticed that my photos looked similar to everyone else’s. I tried to emulate professional photographers, but nothing I shot was anything close to the dizzyingly high standards of their images. Then, standing on Westminster Bridge one day, I had the idea to combine my new love of photography with an old love: paper-cutting. I’d been into paper-cutting since I’d made music videos for a friend’s band (instead of hiring actors I made paper characters because we had no money), so I went back to the bridge a few days later with a paper cut-out I’d made and took a photo of Big Ben with it. I looked down at my viewfinder and I liked it; a passing father and his daughter, intrigued

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