Boyd Webb is a New Zealand-born British photographer. Webb’s surreal images consist of constructed scenes he creates by building sets in his studio and using actors for theatricality. While the sets are artificial-looking, the people in them are resolutely real—thereby consistently toying with the edges of real and imagined spaces. “Fakery and passing off has been a fascinating and essential part of human nature since the beginning and continues, it seems,” he once remarked, “at an ever more devious and accelerating rate. This has been an abiding interest.” His large-scale Cibachrome photographs often feature complex fiberglass sculptures which are composed into disconcerting scenes. Similar to natural history...