Minimiam: Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle

Available works at 
Madelyn Jordon Fine Art

  • La Mine

    La Mine

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Embouteillage

    Embouteillage

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Les Epepineurs

    Les Epepineurs

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Lolita

    Lolita

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Penalty

    Penalty

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Week-End

    Week-End

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • La coupure

    La coupure

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • La Chute

    La Chute

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Sauveur de creme

    Sauveur de creme

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • DĂ©jeuner sur l'herbe

    DĂ©jeuner sur l'herbe

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Ninja Maki

    Ninja Maki

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Smash

    Smash

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Paris Brest

    Paris Brest

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Scully's Pistachio

    Scully's Pistachio

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Slice

    Slice

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Canicule

    Canicule

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Ben & Jerry's

    Ben & Jerry's

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Le Rouleau

    Le Rouleau

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Margueritte

    Margueritte

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Mille et Une Miette

    Mille et Une Miette

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Papi Luge

    Papi Luge

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Sweet Green

    Sweet Green

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • Un ou Deux Sucres

    Un ou Deux Sucres

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00
  • PĂ©chĂ© de Gourmandise

    Péché de Gourmandise

    $3,500.00
    $3,500.00

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Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle "Les Minimiams" combine photography, magical landscapes, culinary backdrops, and portraiture to create settings inhabited by diminutive characters, referred to as minimiam. Each diptych reveals to the viewer a whimsical land that plays with our minds, as well as the subject.

The team met at Arts Decoratifs de Paris where they studied photography. Akiko, Japanese, has always been attracted to the world of gastronomy. As a child, she invented tiny characters that populated her journal. She is a renowned food photographer. Akiko has participated in more than 30 cookbooks and her work is published in international magazines. Pierre, French, grew up on comics. He is published in major gourmet magazines and his still-like photographs appear in corporate commercials.

This fine art collaboration, begun in 2002, is ongoing. There are over 60 works in the series at present.

PRESS: Wired Magazine "Photographers Create the Tiniest of Dramas on Your Dinner"

PRESS: WINELIFE Magazine - April 2017

PRESS: Minimiam Featured on Seven Days

PRESS: Destination Recreation: Small Worlds: Miniatures in Contemporary Art