In his series STAR WARS Revisited, Paris-based photographer and visual artist Laurent Pons takes beloved sci-fi icons and drops them into the heart of our everyday world.
Playing with scale, atmosphere and location, he photographs models and action figures. Ships like the Millennium Falcon, walkers like the AT-AT, and places them in real-life settings: streets of Paris, familiar landmarks, urban landscapes.
What results are images that feel at once fantastical and uncannily plausible.
Pons doesn’t aim for pure spectacle. Instead his work whispers a kind of “what-if” moment.
What if the galaxy far, far away drifted quietly through our own city squares and boulevards?
He matches lighting, texture, and perspective so the models look grounded. A TIE-fighter hovers above an urban canyon; an AT-AT pauses in front of the Eiffel Tower, as though on a reconnaissance mission between café tables and lampposts.
For design-minded readers of Moss and Fog these images offer more than pop-culture Easter eggs.
They are lessons in composition, context and creative displacement. They show how visual narrative can shift when you move something iconic out of its expected frame and into the real world.
A familiar ship becomes uncanny, a toy becomes monumental, a city block becomes a battleground or a movie-set stage.
Images © Copyright Laurent Pons. See more on his Instagram.
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