The idea of Invasion of the Plastic Dinosaurs is basically what the title says, London attacked by toy monsters. They are not evil, they don’t know why are here, they probably don’t ever know where they are; they just go around but since they are enormous (and made of heavy plastic) they represent a menace.

The idea of using plastic toy dinosaurs in photographs of the real London, came from my personal nostalgic memory of the Japanese Godzilla’s movies. I remember the first time I went to the cinema; I was probably 7 or 8 years old and even if it’s not clear anymore how I ended up in the theatre with all my classmates, I’ll never forget the emotions I felt when the light went out and some crazy rubber -there is a person inside, how ridiculous!- creatures started to “acting” on the screen.

Please, remember that at the time in Italy the television was still in black and white and also the tv schedule was limited at few hours every day (starting at 5 in the afternoon with what was then called “the youths’ telly”, a series of documentary and kids’s programmes) so try to imagine what a 160 feet green monster projected on a cinema screen would look for a little girl.

Back to the story, I like to think that, in some way, we have found a way to coexist. Plastic dinosaurs don’t eat therefore humans will survive. Some trouble would be represented by their size and the fact that they actually don’t give a damn about who’s around (they don’t have a brain) so I presume that at some point the city council would try to embank them but this creatures are so huge and so difficult to control that maybe the whole town will be forced to leave.

For this photos I used a fake lomo effect and very over-saturated colours as a tribute to old movie poster and, at the same time, to transmit a snapshot feeling.