Forced perspective is a technique that manipulates human visual perception to make an object appear larger, smaller, closer or farther away than it actually is. In simple terms, those photos you see of people ‘holding’ the top of the Eiffel Tower or ‘pushing’ the Tower of Pisa, are all examples of forced perspective photography.

Today’s post is a collection of 50 crazy photos taken at clever angles using forced perspective, depth and rotation to create optical illusions that will boggle your mind. Check them out below.

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