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The most iconic photos in history recreated as detailed miniatures

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Swiss photographers Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger have a really cool project called Iconen (Icons) where they make detailed scale miniatures to recreate history’s most famous photos.

Concorde – by Toshihiko Sato, 2000

AS11-40-5878 – by Edwin Aldrin, 1969

The Hindenburg Disaster – by Sam Shere, 1937

Nessie – by Marmaduke Wetherell, 1934

Tiananmen – by Stuart Franklin, 1989

9/11 – by Sean Adair, 2001

The Wright Brothers – by John Thomas Daniels, 1903

Adrian Sonderegger and Jojakim Cortis are a photographer duo based in Adliswil, Switzerland. You can see more of their work on their website.


This is part of a series in which we are featuring futuristic, alien-looking or just plain awesome images of landscapes, cityscapes, and objects. If you are a photographer with such work, please drop me a line here.


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