“Rich is a genius,” says Dave Burt, who runs and is a friend of McCor – the pair have been taking photos together since before the PaperBoyo brand became known across the world. One of those accounts is which showcases incredible images of the city for its 2.5 million followers. Once he’s happy with the image, he posts it to his 481,000 followers on Instagram, occasionally tagging relevant topics, places or accounts. The Surface Book doesn’t get in the way of my creativity, it enables my creativity.” “If I have an idea, I want to be able to express it without worrying if I have the right hardware to cope with the colours and images. “The Surface Book helps me evolve my creative side, which is simply about helping me to unlock my imagination and put my ideas down on ‘paper’ to bring them to life,” he said. Once he’s held up the card cutouts and taken the photos, McCor goes home and edits the images. It all taps into my theme of trying to see things differently.” When I went back in the afternoon, the sunlight was hitting the glass and was reflecting colour all over the place. In the morning, it looked quite flat and dull.
One image I tried to capture had colourful glass in it. Sometimes the sunlight can really affect how a photo comes out. “Even if I’ve got an angle that I really like, I walk around the building just in case there’s a better one.
I like to take my time and make sure I’ve got the right angle,” he adds. “The process of taking the photos can take hours. McCor creates card cutouts of his ideas, packs his bag and heads to the location. When I get to the location, there might be scaffolding or the building might have been demolished, which has happened a couple of times.” “I try to get a handful of ideas that I like, because quite often there are things that might go wrong with the shoot. Paperboyo: Beneath The Surface – Episode 3 Paperboyo: Beneath The Surface – Episode 2 Paperboyo: Beneath The Surface – Episode 1 At this point I’m just messing around, it’s not neat, nothing tidy, I’m just playing around and seeing what ideas come out. “I collect a few images of the building, or whatever I want to capture, on my laptop and just start doodling over the top. “I’ve got an intuition for seeing something and knowing whether or not I’ll be able to come up with an idea for it,” McCor, 33, says. It’s the result of days – sometimes weeks – of research on social media and architecture websites, planning and waiting for the right conditions to take the perfect shot. That’s the reason why I do what I do.”īy placing a card cutout into a photo, McCor can transform a building into a Dalmatian dog (his favourite picture), the O2 in London becomes Captain America’s shield, a roof is Marilyn Monroe’s billowing skirt, and the London Eye turns into a bicycle wheel. “I get messages from the public saying: ‘I’ve walked past the same buildings for years, and now I see them in a completely new way’. “I want people to see the world differently, to show them there’s more than one way to view what’s around us,” he says. He’s turned his hobby of cutting card into shapes and holding them next to the world’s biggest landmarks into a successful business that has seen him work with companies such as Microsoft and Hollywood star Will Smith.Īs he travels across the world, McCor always carries the same five things with him: card, scissors, a camera, his Surface Book 3 and a Surface Pen.
The photographer and artist, who is also known as PaperBoyo, sees the world differently to most people. Then again, it might not have been crazy enough to hit the headlines, considering the events of the past year. He also swears he’s seen a giant crocodile attack Brighton Pier, the Statue of Liberty lift weights, a large octopus that lives in Rome’s Colosseum and a dragon fly over the Eiffel Tower in Paris.Ī story about a huge ape destroying one of England’s most important historical relics would surely have been on the news. Rich McCor says he’s seen a monkey knock over Stonehenge.
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