An adorable photo series is bringing kids’ imaginary friends to life.
Inspired by her 3-year-old daughter Mia, photographer Anna Angenend teamed up with illustrator and fellow mom Amy Snyder (aka Amy Gets Artsy) to create a series called “My Monster & Me.” The photos show kids along with the magical friends (or in some cases “monsters”) from their imaginations.
“One morning several months ago, Mia said to me, ‘My yellow monster is kind of scary,'” Angenend told The Huffington Post. “Later in the day she told me, ‘He’s not so scary, he just needs a friend!'” That evening when she was getting ready for bed, she exclaimed, ‘My yellow monster doesn’t want to brush his teeth, he loves his cavities!'”
“This was the first time she had talked about an imaginary friend, or in her case, a monster,” Angenend added. “She hasn’t talked about the yellow monster much since that day, but it was so cute it gave me the idea of creating an image and adding her monster to it. At three years old, her imagination and creative play has really soared, and I wanted a new photo series to capture this part of her childhood.”
The mom attempted to doodle her daughter’s yellow monster friend, but, dissatisfied with the result, she asked Snyder to help with the project. By observing their kids’ playtime together, the two moms brainstormed ideas for the series.
Angenend photographed Mia, two of Snyder’s children and one of the kids’ playdate friends, Marie Elise. Then, Snyder illustrated the monsters and emailed the scanned drawings to the photographer, who used “Photoshop fairy dust” to create the final images.
“We hope that people will fall in love with the characters as much as the images, and reach out to us to capture their own children and their imaginary friends, or whimsical worlds,” Angenend told HuffPost, adding, “We would love for the series to be a reminder of the magical world our kids are living in, and that their everyday activities may be so much more to them then what we see.”
Keep scrolling and visit Angenend’s Facebook page to see the whimsical photo series, along with the artist’s captions and quotes from the kids depicted.
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