Mr Friesen has also produced a series of images called Last Migration, which depict plastic toy animals in their real outdoor habitats.

Since plastic is made from oil, it became too expensive to make the large plastic toys that his employer, the Brandstatter Group, was known for. The owner of the German company asked Beck to ...

There are said to be some 2.6 billion Playmobil items in existence — chiefly 3 in tall plastic human figures with large heads, no noses and articulated limbs, plus a variety of model animals ...