Helle Mardahl Still Life by Alastair Wiper

Over the last couple of years I’ve been collaborating with glass designer and artist Helle Mardahl, shooting her campaigns. It’s a blast. Here are some highlights from the last year, from her collections Cocktail Cream Tea and Cherry on Top

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Unintended Beauty by Alastair Wiper

Unintended Beauty is a photographic exploration of the accidental aesthetics of industrial and scientific facilities around the world.

The human mind is capable of extraordinary things. We create systems, structures and machines that allow us to provide for our lives and answer our questions about the universe. I believe that these systems tell the story of our needs and desires, our hopes and follies, our visions for the future …

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From Tomato King to Cannabis Kaiser - Inside Europe's Largest Medicinal Cannabis Farm, Denmark by Alastair Wiper

Mads Pedersen, a third generation tomato grower, is the owner of Scandinavia’s largest tomato growing empire, Alfred Pedersen & Sons. Five years ago Mads attended a conference of investors in Canada where a ten year old boy described the way that illegally obtained marijuana had ended his forty epileptic seizures per day, and allowed him to live life free from disability …

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Nuclear is not a Dirty Word - Risø Nuclear Research Facilities, Denmark by Alastair Wiper

In 1958 the Nobel Prize winning Danish nuclear physicist Niels Bohr founded an atomic research facility at Risø, next to the tranquil Roskilde Fjord, forty-five kilometers from Copenhagen. The goal was to explore the peaceful use of atoms in Denmark, and by 1960 three nuclear test reactors had been built. Bohr, who passed away in 1962, was a proponent of nuclear power - but in 1985 a decision was made by the Danish parliament against the use of nuclear power, and Risø’s reactors days were numbered …

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The Oldest Functioning Planetarium in the World, the Netherlands by Alastair Wiper

For seven years between 1774 and 1781, wool comber Eise Eisinga spent seven years building a planetarium in the ceiling of his living-slash-bedroom out of thousands of handmade parts. The planetarium still works perfectly today, showing the relative positions of the planets revolving around the sun, the days of the week, phases of the moon and a map of the stars …

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Copenhagen Central Hospital Laundry by Alastair Wiper

Have you ever been in a big hotel, or a hospital, and thought about where all that laundry gets done? A few months ago I was wondering just that when I was visiting a friend in hospital, and my wondering led me to the “FM Vaskeri”, the building where for over 100 years the laundry of Copenhagen’s five public hospitals is washed, dried, pressed and folded …

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Silicon Nights by Alastair Wiper

Silicon Valley, the home of the innovation, billionaire entrepreneurs, self-driving cars, and some of the world’s most boring architecture. When I first visited in 2015, like most people i suppose, I was expecting Silicon Valley to look like something from the Jetsons and that the architecture and buildings would be in sync with the aspirations of the companies that inhabited them …

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Art Basel 2016 - 2019 Campaigns by Alastair Wiper

For the third year in a row I have shot the campaign for the biggest art fair in the world. Art Basel puts on a fair in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong, and I travel to each city to shoot the images that will be used for posters, brochures, tickets, flags and everything else …

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Steinway & Sons Piano Factory, Hamburg by Alastair Wiper

Steinway was founded in Manhatten in 1853 by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinway (later Steinway). The company became very successful in the US, registering hundreds of patents and defining the sound and construction of modern pianos. In 1880, in order to reach European customers who wanted Steinway pianos and to avoid high import taxes, a factory was established in Hamburg Germany …

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The Absolut Vodka Distillery, Sweden by Alastair Wiper

Absolut Vodka is the third biggest spirit brand in the world, and the 99 million litres of it which are produced every year are all made here in Skåne, southern Sweden. The brand was started in 1879 by Lars Olsson Smith, the man who introduced continuous distillation to Sweden ...

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The Boeing Factory, Washington by Alastair Wiper

The Boeing factory in Everett, Washington, is the largest building in the world. Just north of Seattle, the 13,385,378 m3 building was constructed to build the first 747's in 1968, and is currently the place where the Boeing 747, 767, 777 and 787 are assembled.

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