Vik Muniz is a photographer. His work is made from diamonds, dust, caviar, thread, wire, dirt, chocolate, and garbage, but he is a photographer. He shapes portraits from the materials listed above only to photograph them, then they're destroyed. Everything was done for the photograph and it only exists as a photograph. I like that. And his work is fucking sweet.
These are his Caviar Monsters
His Diamond Beauties
This is a portrait of an Army Soldier shaped by toy soldiers. The picture directly below is a detail. 
He worked briefly in these landscape drawing photos. Still, very impressive.
Made from chocolate.
Sigmund Freud in chocolate.
A landscape made from piled thread.
The artist's self portrait made from magazine clippings.
New work, puzzle photographs of famous portraits.To see a lot more of his work, visit his website.
