Marwencol

After being brutally attacked outside a bar and recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he spent the next few years building a scale model World War II-era town Marwencol populated with dolls where he lived out his fantasy life and which he documented in photographs. When his photographs were discovered by an art magazine a New York gallery invited him to show his work forcing him to choose between his self-contained world and the larger world from which he had retreated.