Photographer transforms famous locations into amazing artwork using paper cut-out props

A quirky artist has used intricate paper cut-outs to transform some of the world's most recognisable summer holiday destinations into amazing artwork.

In the past Londoner Rich McCor has turned the London Eye into a bicycle, Big Ben into a watch and the Trafalgar Square lions into playful kittens.

But over the past six months the 29-year-old has turned his hand to converting global hotspots - and he does it all with nothing more than paper and a pair of scissors.

A quirky artist has painstakingly used paper cut-outs to transform some of the world's most recognisable summer holiday destinations into amazing artwork. Pictured is his comical addition of a selfie stick onto the Julius Caesar statue at Caesars Palace hotel in Las Vegas.

Over the past six months the 29-year-old has turned his attention to transforming global hotspots using silhouettes, including putting Spiderman on a New York skyscraper (left) and making the Statue of Liberty at the New York-New York resort in Las Vegas a weightlifter (right)

In another shot, Rich conjured up a peaceful beach scene when he was visiting Sentosa Island in Singapore, using a tiny figure of a woman reading in a hammock.

In his latest photographs, Rich has turned the statue of Julius Caesar, which holds court outside the iconic Caesars Palace hotel in Las Vegas, into a selfie stick-wielding tourist.

The tree-like towers in Singapore's Gardens by the Bay have become tees for a giant golf ball, while New York's Guggenheim Museum has been transformed into a vase for daffodils.

Rich said: 'It all began in London when I turned Big Ben into the London Eye and from there created a series of photos from London.

'From the start of this year I've been able to travel further afield and have had a jam-packed year so far, visiting Hong Kong, Singapore, Nanjing, Val d'Isere, New York and Las Vegas.

'It's been great to transform familiar sights into something different and it's even more fun watching people's reactions when they see my photos.

'I really enjoy it when other tourists come up to me and ask what I'm doing.

'When I show them the photo their faces go through a transition of confusion, to smiling and then laughing.'

From the start of this year he has travelled to Hong Kong, Singapore, Nanjing, Val d'Isere, New York (pictured) and Las Vegas for his art.

Sporting wonder: Rich turned the tree-like towers in Singapore's Gardens by the Bay into a golf tee supporting a giant ball.

At the Bliss Dance Sculpture in Las Vegas, Rich's cut-outs of a racket and ball make the scene resemble a large tennis player.

Rich, who has jacked in his job at a creative agency to travel the world through his hobby, saw his quirky photographs first go viral last year.

He has since racked up more than 160,000 followers on Instagram and was the tenth fastest growing UK profile on the social network in the last year.

And Rich admits crafting some of the paper cut outs can be both therapeutic and tedious at times, but said he has some nifty tools which help him make the process less fiddly than it looks.

Rich, who has jacked in his job at a creative agency to travel the world through his hobby, saw his quirky photographs first go viral last year. Pictured is his image of an alien walking up a ladder into the Hong Kong Science Park.