Like the #mytoyplane series we featured a few days a go, these miniature toys are seeing more adventure than I am these days. ‘Traveling Cars Adventure’ is a photo series by 22 year old Swiss photographer, Kim Leuenberger. Kim is a student in London and is studying photography at the University of the Arts.
A few years ago, Kim received a DSLR for her 19th birthday and so she took all the toys she had in her room into the garden to use as her models. She posted the first picture she took, a blue minivan and Paddington Bear on Instagram and the response was so great, she ended up taking the minivan everywhere she went. Eventually, she ended up getting a red Vespa in Tuscany, and a yellow Beetle in Catalunya as subjects in her photographic journey.
Kim estimates that she now has a “huge” collection of vintage toy cars scattered all around. She uses mainly her iPhone for the photos these days since she’s busy being a student and a commercial photographer, but is compiling a book of the cars, an exhibition and is selling individual prints (of which you can purchase on her site directly). She’s also traveling with her cars, of course. She tries to travel once a month, or at least discover a new place each month, and go abroad 5-6 times a year. Each time, through careful thought and planning, she brings with her a selection of her cars.
[REWIND: ALL IS NOT AS IT SEEMS IN THIS CHARMING VINTAGE AMERICAN TOWN]
Kim loves vintage things because,
they had a life and want to tell you their stories, and that’s what I want to transmit with my pictures, I want them to tell a story.
This project has helped her become a more confident photographer. Without this project, she says, she probably would be studying to be a pharmacist and sitting in a lab all day. Now she travels the world, just her, a camera and a suitcase full of vintage toy cars.
You can see more of Kim Leuenberger’s work HERE.
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