Steve Rolfe
Little people in the food
Noir
About the images
‘Little people in the food’ was one of the first that I created around the little people and it was to highlight the issues that here in Gloucestershire we suffer from flooding. My father in law lives in Sandhurst and in 2007 got flooded, we live in Longford and almost got flooded that year also. It just seems to be a continual issue and doesn't help with all the new houses being built on floodplains.
‘Noir’ deals with mental health and more specifically around men. Men never open up about their feelings, they think it's a show of weakness if they admit that they have issues. I know that things are slowly changing for the better, but there is still a huge stigma attached to being on anti-depressants.
And finally, another image in connection to COVID-19 and panic buying, this time of loo roll.
Bio
My name is Steve Rolfe and I'm a creative photographer based in Gloucestershire. I started photography as a hobby and found that my creativity enabled me to create images and to think outside the box. I first started with the Little People, basically model railway figures that are 1.5 inches tall. I would create urban street art installations with them and place them in the real world on pavements. Almost creating a world within a world and l would leave them to their own devices, maybe a passer-by would see them and find it interesting or maybe no one saw them. As my creativity increased, I created more and more interesting ideas, even a prison break from Gloucester Prison (back when it still was a working prison).
It was on the back of my love and the amount of interest that I had from the Little People that made me go self employed as a photographer after being made redundant from the civil service back in 2014.
I still love to create different scenarios with the Little People and use them more now as a way to highlight social issues, instead of just funny sets of images. I have been lucky to have had the Little People featured in local and national newspapers along with a two page spread in magazine.
Instagram: @little_people_media
