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Honey I shrunk the world: Photographer’s amazing images of ANTS living like humans

Published: 19:29 GMT, 20 March 2014 | Updated: 10:32 GMT, 21 March 2014

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A photographer has created a series of pictures of ants occupying an otherworldly fantasy land, by putting ants and other insects into bizarre scenes so they act out human-like activities and scenarios.

Irina Kozorog produced the bizarre series, including scenes such as ants building snowmen, kissing on a bridge and arguing in a boardroom.

Kozorog first thinks of a scene in her head, before heading outside to attract the ants with something sweet.

She then puts them into place before taking a range of shots and uses her computer to impose them onto backdrops she has already captured.

Kozorog, from Moscow, Russia, said: 'I've been fond of macro photography for more than three years now.

'I was always amazed by the life of ants. Even now they are my favourite photography subject - they are my favourite models.

'I want to create a fairytale with the tiny creatures living in their own wonderful world.'

Some of the images are more metaphorical, like this picture that seems to show a Gothic-novel type aesthetic

The photographs are intended to put ants in regular human situations, such as this picture which shows the ants making a snowman

Artist and photographer Irina Kozorog uses a combination of photography and photoshop style after effects to create her vivid imagery

Many of the ant pictures feature bizarre scenes from movies, or freakishly human scenes of romance, but replacing the insects with everyday people

Other images, such as this boardroom, are less romantic and more mundane, showing everyday slices of life with ants in place of humans. In the background, Kozorog's other pieces of art can be seen as set dressing

Kozorog first thinks of a scene in her head, before heading outside to attract the ants with something sweet

She then puts them into place before taking a range of shots and uses her computer to impose them onto backdrops she has already captured

Kozorog's attempts might be an effort to anthropomorphosise the ants, as as far as we know, ants do not bay or stare at the moon

These ants could be having a schoolboy fight in an ant-ish playground, surrounded by their ant peers in a pre-determined set piece

Many of the photos, such as this one, are far more fantastical, with off the map thinking from the artist behind each weird picture

While some of the scenery in the pictures is fantastical and otherworldly, the ants are all real, and the snaps are all taken at opportune times to fit in with the background

Ants aren't the only creepy-crawlies who take a starring role, with other pictures showing their cohabitation with spiders and prey mantis'

The artist, Irina Kozorog, who has placed herself among these giant ants, thankfully with photo-trickery, not actual giant ants

Irirna Kozorog, left, uses many different types of creepy-crawly, and several different artistic techniques, to create her images

Included in the series are bizarre scenes such as ants building snowmen, kissing on a bridge and arguing in a boardroom

Some of the images captured show ants doing distinctly non-human activities. In fact some of them are just incredibly detailed pictures of ant life

Pictured left: Irina Kozorog, who took the pictures and made them into bizarre pieces of art, which are a mixture of surreal pictures of ants in human-like situations, and regular ants doing standard ant activities (right)

These ants seem to be having a drink together from a droplet of water, showing how truly small the ants are, and how high definition the images are

The concept of some of Irina Kozorog's photos is similar to the plot of the blockbuster movie Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, in which a professor shrinks his offspring down to a miniscule size