During the Vietnam War, world-famous photographers like Marc Riboud and Eddie Adams captured iconic (and traumatic) moments on film. In 2008, most war photographs are created by embedded journalists whose images are tightly controlled. So British photographer Mike Stimpson decided to make his contribution to the repository of war photography by staging mock Vietnam-era moments using Lego. This one, based on a 1967 protest in Washington, DC, stars Stormtrooper Legos as the US Army. See, it looks just like the original image.
This is a recreation of a famous 1968 photo by Eddie Adams of a soldier with his gun to a Vietnamese man’s head. The Lego version is much less intense, but the irony of the gun and the smiley faces is creepy. Images by Mike Stimpson
