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 /
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 …
Read MoreITER Experimental Nuclear Fusion Reactor, France & China /
ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and Latin for “the way”) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject that will be the world’s largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment …
Read MoreFrom Tomato King to Cannabis Kaiser - Inside Europe's Largest Medicinal Cannabis Farm, Denmark /
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 …
Read MoreNuclear is not a Dirty Word - Risø Nuclear Research Facilities, Denmark /
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 …
Read MoreThe Oldest Functioning Planetarium in the World, the Netherlands /
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 …
Read MoreBlooming Beautiful - The Tropical Nursery at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, London /
From the world’s rarest orchids to carnivorous plants that devour rats and birds, enormous tropical water lilies with lethal spikes that can puncture a rubber gumboot, and towering plants that grow up to 3m in just a few months, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is a botanical wonderland …
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