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Alastair Philip Wiper
36 Olufsvej
Copenhagen, 2100
Denmark
+45 27512705
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 "It's just a passion to help people. They come to you and they're at their worst. They're burnt out, they've been up all night. They're just exhausted."
They're Dying to Get in Here

They're Dying to Get in Here' is a study of death through the daily practices of an ordinary American funeral home …

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Inside Nike, Oregon USA

Nike invited me to photograph their archives, manufacturing and R&D facilities - and loads of other places photographers have never been - for a new exhibition and book about 50 years of Nike. It was an absolute treat …

BMW Werk Leipzig
BMW Werk Leipzig

I was invited to BMW’s huge, sprawling factory in Leipzig to document MINI’s and BMW’s on the production line. Each day, a team of over 9,000 workers produce up to 1,300 cars. This place is big.

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Eternal Lifeline?

For $200,000 you can have your body cryogenically preserved after death. The question is: To what end?

 "Apple-2" house used in atomic bomb test at the Nevada National Security Site. The test on May 5, 1955 was intended to test various building construction types in a nuclear blast. An assortment of buildings, including residential houses were constru
Nevada Nuclear Weapon Test Site, USA

The Nevada National Security Site, 105 km northwest of Las Vegas, was established in 1951 to test nuclear devices. Covering approximately 3,500 km2 of desert and mountainous terrain, atomic testing at the site began in 1951. Over the subsequent four decades, over 1,000 nuclear explosions were detonated at the site …

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The Underground House, Las Vegas

This is a nuclear fallout shelter like no other. Built by eccentric millionaire Jerry Henderson in 1978, this 1,400 m2 underground house comes complete with artificial trees, faux rocks and lighting to simulate different times of day …

 The oldest nuclear reactor in the world, the X-10 Graphite Reactor is considered the birthplace of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The primary mission of the Graphite Reactor was to demonstrate the production of plutonium from uranium in a reactor fo
The Secret City: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee was born in 1943 as a top-secret part of the Manhattan Project, tasked with refining radioactive material for atomic bombs. A town was built in record time and became known as "The Secret City" because only those living there knew it existed …

Project Greek Island: The Greenbrier Nuclear Bunker, USA
Project Greek Island: The Greenbrier Nuclear Bunker, USA

In the 1960s, a top-secret nuclear bunker was built underneath the luxurious Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia to house all 535 members of Congress in the event of a nuclear attack …

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Titan II Nuclear Missile, Arizona, USA

The Titan II nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile carried the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States. At 9 megatons, it was about 600 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Between 1963 and 1987, 54 missiles were on 24-hour alert, 365 days per year, spread through Arizona, Arkansas and Kansas …

 A robotic head at the RealDoll sex doll factory in San Marcos, California. "As soon as you make it move and look around and be able to have a conversation with it, suddenly it's hard to call it a sex doll, because it's now a robot." - Matt McCullen,
Pleasure Points

“We don’t recommend oral sex. There are gears in there. I mean you can mess things up, you can mess yourself up. She’s got the mouth and everything moves, but we don’t recommend it. It’ll kind of ruin the whole thing.”

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Using the World’s Largest Laser to Test Nuclear Weapons

“It's like a car that you've parked out in your garage for 30 years, and it's your rescue vehicle, but you can't test it until you actually need it” explains Bruno. He is telling me what the largest laser in the world is used for.

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Embassy of Denmark, London

I was commissioned to photograph the buildings of the Danish Embassy in London, designed by Arne Jacobsen in the late 70s, for this wonderful new book published by The Danish Architectural Press and designed by Studio Atlant. Click here to find out more and get your copy …

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The Danish National Archive, Copenhagen

Landsarkivet, the National Archives for Zealand, was established in Copenhagen in 1893 on Nuuks Plads in Nørrebro in the north of the city. Ghostly and empty for the past decade, the buildings occupy a silent space in the vibrant neighbourhood …

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Inside Big Ben, London

Big Ben has just finished a massive renovation, and I was invited inside to photograph behind the clock face …

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Candy Crush 10th Anniversary Campaign

I shot this fun campaign to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Candy Crush. The idea is based on the Tetris effect - when people play a computer game way too much, they begin to see real life situations that look like moves from the game. If you’ve played Candy Crush you should be able to spot the moves in these every day situations …

Unintended Beauty at Kvadrat
Unintended Beauty at Kvadrat

The Unintended Beauty exhibition is showing at Kvadrat’s showroom in Copenhagen 25th November 2021 …

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The Last Professional Darkroom in Denmark

“If you want to take a real photo, you have to shoot analogue. And if you want to hear real music, then you have to hear it on vinyl. That’s the way it is.” …

Worlds Best Condom Factory, Denmark
Worlds Best Condom Factory, Denmark

In the unlikely setting of the corner of an industrial cheese factory in the Danish countryside resides the factory of the Worlds Best condom brand, the only condom producer in Denmark …

Return to the ITER Experimental Nuclear Fusion Reactor, France
Return to the ITER Experimental Nuclear Fusion Reactor, France

I recently revisited ITER, an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject that will be the world’s largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment - in short, the future of energy, when it works - which it may do within the next 50 years …

 The grow hall at Nordic Harvest close to Copenhagen, where a 14 storey high system grows salad leaves in water under UV lights.
Nordic Harvest Vertical Farm, Denmark

In a nondescript warehouse in the outskirts of Copenhagen there is a very unusual farm. There is no sunshine, no soil, no insects, no tractors. There are some robots, a lot of water, and a whole load of pink LED light. This is Nordic Harvest …

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Nylon Exposure & Fish Farm with Henrik Vibskov

Here’s a couple of series I shot with old friend and collaborator, artist and designer Henrik Vibskov. They were recently included in his solo exhibition PERFORMATIVEacts at Sofienholm in Denmark …

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Helle Mardahl Still Life

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 …

Unintended Beauty
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 …

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ITER 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 …

Aurora Cannabis, Denmark
From 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 …

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Nuclear 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 …

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The 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 …

Blooming Beautiful - The Tropical Nursery at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, London
Blooming 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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Jun 24, 2019
The Pernod Absinthe Distillery, France
Jun 24, 2019

I've got news for you: the Pernod you grew up with is not the real Pernod. The real Pernod is absinthe, the first absinthe, and it was banned throughout most of the world in 1915. You have probably heard a lot of stories about absinthe making people crazy …

Jun 24, 2019
Building the Copenhagen Metro
May 14, 2019
Building the Copenhagen Metro
May 14, 2019

In Copenhagen they are building a huge extension to the Metro. And they are building it right under my house. Due to open in the summer of 2019, I’ve been photographing the progress in the tunnels since 2013 …

May 14, 2019
Febrik Knitting Factory, The Netherlands
May 14, 2019
Febrik Knitting Factory, The Netherlands
May 14, 2019

Renee: The people of this town, yeah, it’s hard to explain, their nickname is something like “Pee-ers in a pot”

Me: Yeah?

Renee: And that's because normally they- 

Me: Pee-ers? Like peeing?

Renee: To pee, like peeing in the pot. Yeah, yeah.

May 14, 2019
Copenhagen Central Hospital Laundry
May 14, 2019
Copenhagen Central Hospital Laundry
May 14, 2019

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 …

May 14, 2019
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Nov 30, 2018
Art Basel 2016 - 2019 Campaigns
Nov 30, 2018

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 …

Nov 30, 2018
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Nov 27, 2018
MYKITA, Germany
Nov 27, 2018

German eyewear company MYKITA assembles all their hi-tech glasses at their headquarters in Berlin. I shot this campaign to show what goes on behind the scenes in what they call their “Modern Manufactory” - check them out at mykita.com.

Nov 27, 2018
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Aug 21, 2018
Steinway & Sons Piano Factory, Hamburg
Aug 21, 2018

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 …

Aug 21, 2018
Niederegger Marzipan Factory, Germany
Apr 13, 2018
Niederegger Marzipan Factory, Germany
Apr 13, 2018

Lübeck is the town of Marzipan, traditionally the confection of choice of kings and queens. The story in Lübeck goes that marzipan was invented in Lübeck when it was under siege, and all the food had run out except for almonds and sugar ...

Apr 13, 2018
The Absolut Vodka Distillery, Sweden
Apr 5, 2018
The Absolut Vodka Distillery, Sweden
Apr 5, 2018

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 ...

Apr 5, 2018
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Feb 24, 2018
The Future Consumer Lab, Copenhagen
Feb 24, 2018

The Univeristy of Copenhagen's new Future Consumer Lab is all about the future of food. What do we like, why do we like it, when do we like it and where do we like it? Through a series of experiments the lab aims to answer these questions and more ...

Feb 24, 2018
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Jan 23, 2018
Inside adidas
Jan 23, 2018

Over the past year, in collaboration with Wired magazine, ReD Associates* and Mens Health, I've been given unprecedented access to adidas' headquarters, research departments and factories. Here is the result ...

Jan 23, 2018
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Nov 16, 2017
The Large Hadron Collider Beauty Experiment, CERN, Switzerland
Nov 16, 2017

I was commissioned by Scientific American magazine to photograph the Large Hadron Collider Beauty experiment (LHCb) at CERN. The LHCb is one the seven detectors collecting data from the collisions of the Large Hadron Collider ...

Nov 16, 2017
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Nov 16, 2017
Lundbeck Pharmaceutical, Denmark
Nov 16, 2017

I was commissioned by pharmaceutical company Lundbeck, which specialises psychiatric and neurological disorders, to create some photos of their production and still-life images of their packaging ...

Nov 16, 2017
The Archives of the Copenhagen Zoological Museum
Nov 13, 2017
The Archives of the Copenhagen Zoological Museum
Nov 13, 2017

The Zoological museum in Copenhagen is one of the oldest museums in Europe. You might not realise that when you look at the slightly run-down 70s building that houses it, in the same way that you might not realise that most of what makes up the museum itself is hidden from the public ...

Nov 13, 2017
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Aug 13, 2017
Vitra Campus, Germany
Aug 13, 2017

Vitra is a family owned Swiss furniture company that was founded in 1957. The company made it's name by selling designs from some of the most famous furniture designers in the world such as Charles and Ray Eames, Verner Panton and George Nelson, and today it's campus is a place of pilgrimage for architecture and design lovers ...

Aug 13, 2017
Sausage Factory, Denmark
Mar 27, 2017
Sausage Factory, Denmark
Mar 27, 2017

Among all the magical things in life—your first love, snow on Christmas Eve — there are few wonders greater than the Danish hotdog. But who knows what actually goes into that sausage which sits there in the sliced bun, all golden and gilled, snuggling up to remoulade, crispy onions, and pickled cucumber ...

Mar 27, 2017
The Sunbeam Theatre, Hong Kong
Mar 27, 2017
The Sunbeam Theatre, Hong Kong
Mar 27, 2017

The Sunbeam Theatre is a landmark theatre in Hong Kong, showcasing Cantonese Opera. Established by immigrants from Shanghai in 1972, the theatre has changed hands numerous times and has been fighting closure for the last 15 years. The theatre sits on prime real estate, which is worth a lot of money in Hong Kong, and the landlord had been threatening to close ...

Mar 27, 2017
From Cow to Cheese, Denmark
Mar 3, 2017
From Cow to Cheese, Denmark
Mar 3, 2017

Arla Foods is the biggest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia. It is a cooperative owned by over 7,000 Danish and Swedish farmers, and it is the seventh largest dairy company in the world measure by turnover. I followed the process of some of their cheese being made, from the milking of the cows to the cheese production at one of their huge dairies in Taulov, Denmark ...

Mar 3, 2017
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Hasselblad Factory, Sweden
Feb 3, 2017
Hasselblad Factory, Sweden
Feb 3, 2017

October the third 1962 was the day everything changed for Hasselblad.
NASA astronaut Walter Schirra blasted off into space on the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, taking his personal 500C Hasselblad camera with him. That camera captured the first recognisable images of Earth from its orbit, and became a part of the history of the space race ...

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Feb 3, 2017
Kvadrat Wooltex, UK
Nov 18, 2016
Kvadrat Wooltex, UK
Nov 18, 2016

Founded in Denmark in 1968, Kvadrat is one of the world's leading upholstery textile suppliers. In collaboration with high profile designers, architects and artists, they have supplied fabrics for some of the most notable buildings on the planet: from MoMA in New York ...

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Nov 18, 2016
Where Spam is Born, Denmark
Aug 10, 2016
Where Spam is Born, Denmark
Aug 10, 2016

In my day it was all about Spam. A cultural icon worthy of ridicule by Monty Python in the 60s, and the name given to one of the biggest pests of the information age, this humble meat in a tin was the renowned - if rarely proudly eaten - household name when I was growing up in England in the 80s. But throughout much of the rest of the world, meat in a tin is known equally by another name: Tulip Pork Luncheon Meat ...

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Aug 10, 2016
The High Voltage Laboratory at the Technical University of Denmark
Jun 22, 2016
The High Voltage Laboratory at the Technical University of Denmark
Jun 22, 2016

This is the High Voltage Laboratory at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), just outside Copenhagen. Built in the early 60's, it has since been in constant use teaching the fundamentals of high voltage technology and researching and testing electric power ...

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Jun 22, 2016
Art Basel 2016 Campaign
Jun 22, 2016
Art Basel 2016 Campaign
Jun 22, 2016

I've been commissioned by renowned graphic design studio Barnbrook to shoot the advertising and branding campaign for the largest and important art fair in the world, Art Basel. There are three shows per year, one in Basel itself, on in Miami and one in Hong Kong ...

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Jun 22, 2016
Harry's Razor Blade Factory, Germany
Jun 9, 2016
Harry's Razor Blade Factory, Germany
Jun 9, 2016

This is Feintechnik, a razor blade factory in the small village of Eisfeld in Germany. A three hour drive from frankfurt, the factory has been producing razor blades since 1920 and is one of the very few highly specialised factories to do so left in Europe. In 2014 the factory was bought by Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider, founders of New York based shaving start-up Harry's, for $100 million ...

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Jun 9, 2016
Koenigsegg Supercar Factory, Sweden
May 9, 2016
Koenigsegg Supercar Factory, Sweden
May 9, 2016

On an decomissioned air-force base just outside the small town of Ängelholm on the west-coast of Sweden sits the factory of the most unlikely supercar manufacturer in the world. Forget Ferraris and Lamborghinis, Koenigsegg is in a class above, consistently setting Guinness World records for the fastest acceleration ...

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May 9, 2016
The Brutalist Skiing Resort of Flaine, France
Feb 25, 2016
The Brutalist Skiing Resort of Flaine, France
Feb 25, 2016

A quick google of the purpose built skiing resort of "Flaine" reveals one thing above all else: most people think it is extremley ugly.

Built in the 60s by one of the most respected and renowned proponents of modernist Bauhaus architecture, Marcel Breuer, the resort (much of which is listed as protected by the French Ministry of Culture) had nothing but noble intentions ...

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Feb 25, 2016
Nikon: Elevate the Everyday Campaign
Feb 24, 2016
Nikon: Elevate the Everyday Campaign
Feb 24, 2016

I was commissioned by Nikon to take some photographs of some car parks.

The brief was to "showcase how skilled photographers can ‘elevate the everyday’ in photography and find genuine inspiration from arguably mundane surroundings ...

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Feb 24, 2016
New Covent Garden Market, London
Feb 17, 2016
New Covent Garden Market, London
Feb 17, 2016

New Covent Garden Market is the biggest wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market in the UK. Opened in 1974, it is located in South London and provides 40% of ...

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Feb 17, 2016
Inside Playmobil, Malta
Dec 16, 2015
Inside Playmobil, Malta
Dec 16, 2015

Since 1976, every Playmobil character has been made in a Maltese factory – where it’s not just the figures who are happy. Not far from Malta airport, 192 new figures are born every minute – and whether they’re pirates, policemen or princesses, they’re always smiling ...

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Dec 16, 2015
BOOK RELEASE - The Art of Impossible: The Bang & Olufsen Design Story
Nov 17, 2015
BOOK RELEASE - The Art of Impossible: The Bang & Olufsen Design Story
Nov 17, 2015

I'm very proud to announce the release of my new book, The Art of Impossible: The Bang & Olufsen Design Story, published by Thames & Hudson. Coming to a bookstore near you, with 240 pages photographed and written by yours truly ...

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Nov 17, 2015
The Real Wealth of Athens
Aug 25, 2015
The Real Wealth of Athens
Aug 25, 2015

In troubled times it is easy to forget what Greece has given to the world. The cradle of Western civilisation, Ancient Greece has provided us with much ...

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Aug 25, 2015
Inside the Biggest Vinyl Pressing Plant in the World, The Netherlands
Aug 12, 2015
Inside the Biggest Vinyl Pressing Plant in the World, The Netherlands
Aug 12, 2015

After moving house four times in one year, and lugging my 800 strong vinly record collection with me every time, I decided enough was enough. Seriously, have you ...

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Aug 12, 2015
Going to Space with Copenhagen Suborbitals, Denmark
Jun 9, 2015
Going to Space with Copenhagen Suborbitals, Denmark
Jun 9, 2015

In the old shipyard of Copenhagen a bunch of guys are on a mission to make a home-made rocket and go to space in it. Yep, really. If they do it they will make Denmark the fourth country ...

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Jun 9, 2015
Postcards of Modern Relics: The Facilities of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games
Apr 15, 2015
Postcards of Modern Relics: The Facilities of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games
Apr 15, 2015

If you google "Olympics Athens" you won't get hits about Greece being the birthplace of the Olympics, or about the glories of the two modern Olympics that have been held there ...

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Apr 15, 2015
The Magnets of the Large Hadron Collider
Apr 8, 2015
The Magnets of the Large Hadron Collider
Apr 8, 2015

This week the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN was turned back on after an upgrade that has taken two years to complete. I was recently commissioned by CERN to photograph their ...

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Apr 8, 2015
Trinity Methodist Church, England
Feb 12, 2015
Trinity Methodist Church, England
Feb 12, 2015

I'm no God-squadder, but I do like a good church - something to do with all that delicious symmetry and symbolism. Some crackers were built in the 60s, such as this sexy little number ...

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Feb 12, 2015
The Funniest Most Dangerous Place in the World: A Tourist Bus Ride to the Korean DMZ
Jan 19, 2015
The Funniest Most Dangerous Place in the World: A Tourist Bus Ride to the Korean DMZ
Jan 19, 2015

Our tour guide is doing a thumbs down and making a stinky face behind the back of the South Korean soldier that has just got on our bus. “They’re called the ‘rocks’” she had told us ...

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Jan 19, 2015
Bang & Olufsen: Inside The Aluminium Factory
Dec 8, 2014
Bang & Olufsen: Inside The Aluminium Factory
Dec 8, 2014

Bang & Olufsen (B&O) is the oldest consumer electronics company in the world. Founded in an attic in 1925 by two young electronics enthusiasts, Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen ...

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Dec 8, 2014
Helsingør Shipyard Buildings, Denmark
Oct 29, 2014
Helsingør Shipyard Buildings, Denmark
Oct 29, 2014

Perhaps better known to those outside Denmark as the home of Hamlet, Helsingør is a city on the Northeastern coast of the island of Zealand in the East of Denmark. For 100 years ...

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Oct 29, 2014
The World Of Cesar Manrique, Lanzarote
Sep 10, 2014
The World Of Cesar Manrique, Lanzarote
Sep 10, 2014

When we visited Lanzarote in March this year on a family holiday, it felt like a compromise. OK, so it's probably going to be sunny, warm (it wasn't), and its only a few hours away ...

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Sep 10, 2014
Building the Largest Ship In the World, South Korea
Sep 1, 2014
Building the Largest Ship In the World, South Korea
Sep 1, 2014

The Maersk Triple E is the largest ship on the planet, the pride and joy of the largest shipping company in the world. The ship was a huge hit with the public last year when it docked ...

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Sep 1, 2014
The Largest Underground Particle Physics Laboratory In The World, Italy
Aug 6, 2014
The Largest Underground Particle Physics Laboratory In The World, Italy
Aug 6, 2014

Nestled 1.4 kilometers under the highest mountain in central Italy, the Gran Sasso, is the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). The first experiments were conducted here in 1989 ...

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Aug 6, 2014
Inside One Of The World's Most Efficient Power Stations
Jul 22, 2014
Inside One Of The World's Most Efficient Power Stations
Jul 22, 2014

Just like the other two main power stations of Copenhagen, Svanemølleværket and H.C. Ørstedsværket, Avedøre Power Station (Avedøreværket) is a monument on the city's skyline ...

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Jul 22, 2014
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Ejnar Pedersen and PP Møbler
Jun 4, 2014
Ejnar Pedersen and PP Møbler
Jun 4, 2014

91 year old Ejnar Pedersen is one of Danish midcentury modernism's most prolific craftsmen, and founder of legendary furniture manufacturing company PP Møbler. Ejnar started PP Møbler ...

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Jun 4, 2014
Jicamarca Radio Observatory, Peru
May 12, 2014
Jicamarca Radio Observatory, Peru
May 12, 2014

"I had never been to Peru before and knew no Spanish. None of us "Gringos" knew much Spanish" says Dr. Donald Farley, ionospheric physicist and alumnus of Cornell, who ...

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May 12, 2014
Portraits Of Artists In Their Studios For MINDCRAFT 14, Milan
May 6, 2014
Portraits Of Artists In Their Studios For MINDCRAFT 14, Milan
May 6, 2014

I took a series of portraits of the artists and designers participating in MINDCRAFT 14 at Milan Design Week. The pictures were for the exhibition catalogue and were also hung ...

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May 6, 2014
H.C. Ørsted Power Station, Copenhagen
Apr 22, 2014
H.C. Ørsted Power Station, Copenhagen
Apr 22, 2014

H.C. Ørstedsværket is a natural gas fired power station in Copenhagen. Built between 1916 and 1920, the power station became the largest in Denmark and was the first to use alternating ...

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Apr 22, 2014
The Test Facilities of The European Space Agency, The Netherlands
Apr 2, 2014
The Test Facilities of The European Space Agency, The Netherlands
Apr 2, 2014

A soundsystem that is so loud you would die instantly if you were in the room when it was turned on. A huge vacuum chamber that can achieve a vacuum a billion times lower ...

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Apr 2, 2014
The Future of Nuclear Fusion, England
Mar 10, 2014
The Future of Nuclear Fusion, England
Mar 10, 2014

OK kids, it's time for a science lesson. This is Culham Centre for Fusion Energy near Oxford in England. It houses two of the world's foremost experiments into nuclear fusion energy ...

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Mar 10, 2014
Svanemølleværket Power Station, Denmark
Feb 26, 2014
Svanemølleværket Power Station, Denmark
Feb 26, 2014

Designed by architect Louis Hygom and built between 1947 and 1953, Svanemølleværket provides district heating to Copenhagen. Situated in Nordhavn to the north of the city ...

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Feb 26, 2014
The Labyrinth of Josep Pujiula, Spain
Feb 13, 2014
The Labyrinth of Josep Pujiula, Spain
Feb 13, 2014

A few years ago I was in Sweden where I visited a strange land called Ladonia, containing huge 30 meter high labyrinthine wooden sculptures built by artist Lars Vilks ..

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Feb 13, 2014
S.N.S Herning, Denmark
Feb 5, 2014
S.N.S Herning, Denmark
Feb 5, 2014

S.N.S. Herning is a knitting company based in Herning, Denmark. Founded in 1931 by Søren Nielsen Skyt, the company is famous for producing an iconic "fisherman" sweater using ...

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Feb 5, 2014
Danish Crown Slaughterhouse, Denmark
Jan 6, 2014
Danish Crown Slaughterhouse, Denmark
Jan 6, 2014

Right, I'm going to kick off this post by saying that I am not a squeamish person. I love food, I love meat, and I particularly love pork. In an ideal world, we would all get our meat from ...

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Jan 6, 2014
Avoriaz: The Enchanting Village
Jan 3, 2014
Avoriaz: The Enchanting Village
Jan 3, 2014

For the sake of posterity, I've decided to make this blog post about my exhibition "Avoriaz: The Enchanting Village". The pictures can be seen in various other posts on my blog, but here ...

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Jan 3, 2014
Tivoli Gardens, Denmark
Dec 19, 2013
Tivoli Gardens, Denmark
Dec 19, 2013

Tivoli is a magical place. I know that's what every theme park in the world wants you to think about their theme park, but in the case of Tivoli, I think there is some truth to it ...

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Dec 19, 2013
Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant, Sweden
Nov 26, 2013
Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant, Sweden
Nov 26, 2013

Barsebäck is a decommissioned nuclear power plant in Sweden. Situated just 20 km from Copenhagen, on the other side of the Øresund Strait, the two iconic reactors of the power plant ...

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Nov 26, 2013
Laon Cathedral, France
Oct 22, 2013
Laon Cathedral, France
Oct 22, 2013

Located in Picardy, the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon is one of the most important example of the Gothic architecture of the 12th and 13th centuries. The site of the cathedral had been ...

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Oct 22, 2013
Return to CERN, Switzerland
Oct 18, 2013
Return to CERN, Switzerland
Oct 18, 2013

This year I returned to CERN, somewhere I am lucky to visit every now and then to photograph some of the mind-boggling things that are happening there. (Check out my last visit here) ...

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Oct 18, 2013
A Short History of Beer in Lithuanian
Oct 16, 2013
A Short History of Beer in Lithuanian
Oct 16, 2013

It is hard to imagine a better job offer than being asked to travel round Lithuania with your brother and sister drinking beautiful, beautiful fresh beer, meeting crazy, friendly people ...

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Oct 16, 2013
Kempton Park Steam Engines, England
Aug 28, 2013
Kempton Park Steam Engines, England
Aug 28, 2013

These are the Kempton Park Steam Engines in London. They are huge. Built between 1926 and 1929, one of the engines, The Sir William Prescott, has been restored to ...

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Aug 28, 2013
Provençal Graveyard Portraits, France
Aug 22, 2013
Provençal Graveyard Portraits, France
Aug 22, 2013

I'm a big fan of graveyards. In Southern Europe, and doubtless in many other parts of the world, it is normal to have a portrait of the deceased attached to the gravestone, something ...

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Aug 22, 2013
Pierrot at Tivoli, Denmark
Jun 22, 2013
Pierrot at Tivoli, Denmark
Jun 22, 2013

Pierrot is the sad clown. A stock pantomime character, originating in Italy in the late 17th century, Pierrot is often portrayed as a naive fool who is in love with Columbine, who leaves him for Harlequin.

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Jun 22, 2013
Fawley Refinery, England
Apr 23, 2013
Fawley Refinery, England
Apr 23, 2013

Fawley Oil Refinery is the largest oil refinery in the UK, refining approximately 330,000 barrels of crude oil a day (20% of the UK's capacity). Owned by Esso, the refinery was established in 1921 ...

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Apr 23, 2013
Ice Floes of the North Sea, Denmark
Feb 18, 2013
Ice Floes of the North Sea, Denmark
Feb 18, 2013

This is the the North Sea, on the west coast of Denmark. The wind has blown ice floes up onto the land, and now the sea ice has crept up onto the fields which lie by the sea ...

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Feb 18, 2013
Radio Anechoic Chamber, Denmark
Feb 4, 2013
Radio Anechoic Chamber, Denmark
Feb 4, 2013

This is the radio anechoic chamber at Denmark's Technical University (DTU). It opened in 1967, and is currently operated with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the testing of ...

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Feb 4, 2013
Copenhagen Suborbitals, Denmark
Jan 25, 2013
Copenhagen Suborbitals, Denmark
Jan 25, 2013

In a small shed in the outskirts of Copenhagen's old shipyard, two amazing men and their team have a mission. They want to go into space in a home-made rocket. And they are serious ...

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Jan 25, 2013
The World's Largest Solar Furnace, France
Dec 19, 2012
The World's Largest Solar Furnace, France
Dec 19, 2012

The first time I saw the Odeillo Solar Furnace was in an article called "the 10 strangest buildings in the world" or something like that. I was amazed and I knew that I just had to go ...

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Dec 19, 2012
CERN, Switzerland
Nov 14, 2012
CERN, Switzerland
Nov 14, 2012

CERN is a wonderful place. Human beings do magnificent things there. It is the birthplace of the internet, and it is the home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the worlds largest ...

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Nov 14, 2012
The Mont-Louis Solar Furnace, France
Nov 7, 2012
The Mont-Louis Solar Furnace, France
Nov 7, 2012

The Mont-Louis solar furnace, built in 1949 by Dr. Felix Trombe, is an experimental solar energy facility in the French Pyrenees. It's the first of its kind in the world, and was the ...

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Nov 7, 2012
Guildford United Reform Church, England
Oct 31, 2012
Guildford United Reform Church, England
Oct 31, 2012

I've driven past the Guildford United Reform Church countless times in my youth; the church sits on Portsmouth Road, one of the main roads out of town, and was built in 1965 ...

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Oct 31, 2012
Vestforbrænding Incineration Plant, Denmark
Oct 24, 2012
Vestforbrænding Incineration Plant, Denmark
Oct 24, 2012

Vestforbrænding in Glostrup, just outside Copenhagen, is the largest waste incineration plant in Denmark. That means it's the place where Danish rubbish ends up after it has been chucked ...

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Oct 24, 2012
The R J Mitchell Wind Tunnel, England
Oct 10, 2012
The R J Mitchell Wind Tunnel, England
Oct 10, 2012

The R J Mitchell Wind Tunnel at the University of Southampton is one of those places that you dream of when you are a little boy. The big propellers, the science fiction atmosphere ...

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Oct 10, 2012
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Hasselblad Factory, Sweden
Feb 3, 2017
Hasselblad Factory, Sweden
Feb 3, 2017

October the third 1962 was the day everything changed for Hasselblad.
NASA astronaut Walter Schirra blasted off into space on the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, taking his personal 500C Hasselblad camera with him. That camera captured the first recognisable images of Earth from its orbit, and became a part of the history of the space race ...

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Feb 3, 2017
Kvadrat Wooltex, UK
Nov 18, 2016
Kvadrat Wooltex, UK
Nov 18, 2016

Founded in Denmark in 1968, Kvadrat is one of the world's leading upholstery textile suppliers. In collaboration with high profile designers, architects and artists, they have supplied fabrics for some of the most notable buildings on the planet: from MoMA in New York ...

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Nov 18, 2016
Where Spam is Born, Denmark
Aug 10, 2016
Where Spam is Born, Denmark
Aug 10, 2016

In my day it was all about Spam. A cultural icon worthy of ridicule by Monty Python in the 60s, and the name given to one of the biggest pests of the information age, this humble meat in a tin was the renowned - if rarely proudly eaten - household name when I was growing up in England in the 80s. But throughout much of the rest of the world, meat in a tin is known equally by another name: Tulip Pork Luncheon Meat ...

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Aug 10, 2016
The High Voltage Laboratory at the Technical University of Denmark
Jun 22, 2016
The High Voltage Laboratory at the Technical University of Denmark
Jun 22, 2016

This is the High Voltage Laboratory at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), just outside Copenhagen. Built in the early 60's, it has since been in constant use teaching the fundamentals of high voltage technology and researching and testing electric power ...

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Jun 22, 2016
Art Basel 2016 Campaign
Jun 22, 2016
Art Basel 2016 Campaign
Jun 22, 2016

I've been commissioned by renowned graphic design studio Barnbrook to shoot the advertising and branding campaign for the largest and important art fair in the world, Art Basel. There are three shows per year, one in Basel itself, on in Miami and one in Hong Kong ...

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Jun 22, 2016
Harry's Razor Blade Factory, Germany
Jun 9, 2016
Harry's Razor Blade Factory, Germany
Jun 9, 2016

This is Feintechnik, a razor blade factory in the small village of Eisfeld in Germany. A three hour drive from frankfurt, the factory has been producing razor blades since 1920 and is one of the very few highly specialised factories to do so left in Europe. In 2014 the factory was bought by Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider, founders of New York based shaving start-up Harry's, for $100 million ...

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Jun 9, 2016
Koenigsegg Supercar Factory, Sweden
May 9, 2016
Koenigsegg Supercar Factory, Sweden
May 9, 2016

On an decomissioned air-force base just outside the small town of Ängelholm on the west-coast of Sweden sits the factory of the most unlikely supercar manufacturer in the world. Forget Ferraris and Lamborghinis, Koenigsegg is in a class above, consistently setting Guinness World records for the fastest acceleration ...

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May 9, 2016
The Brutalist Skiing Resort of Flaine, France
Feb 25, 2016
The Brutalist Skiing Resort of Flaine, France
Feb 25, 2016

A quick google of the purpose built skiing resort of "Flaine" reveals one thing above all else: most people think it is extremley ugly.

Built in the 60s by one of the most respected and renowned proponents of modernist Bauhaus architecture, Marcel Breuer, the resort (much of which is listed as protected by the French Ministry of Culture) had nothing but noble intentions ...

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Feb 25, 2016
Nikon: Elevate the Everyday Campaign
Feb 24, 2016
Nikon: Elevate the Everyday Campaign
Feb 24, 2016

I was commissioned by Nikon to take some photographs of some car parks.

The brief was to "showcase how skilled photographers can ‘elevate the everyday’ in photography and find genuine inspiration from arguably mundane surroundings ...

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Feb 24, 2016
New Covent Garden Market, London
Feb 17, 2016
New Covent Garden Market, London
Feb 17, 2016

New Covent Garden Market is the biggest wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market in the UK. Opened in 1974, it is located in South London and provides 40% of ...

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Feb 17, 2016
Inside Playmobil, Malta
Dec 16, 2015
Inside Playmobil, Malta
Dec 16, 2015

Since 1976, every Playmobil character has been made in a Maltese factory – where it’s not just the figures who are happy. Not far from Malta airport, 192 new figures are born every minute – and whether they’re pirates, policemen or princesses, they’re always smiling ...

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Dec 16, 2015
BOOK RELEASE - The Art of Impossible: The Bang & Olufsen Design Story
Nov 17, 2015
BOOK RELEASE - The Art of Impossible: The Bang & Olufsen Design Story
Nov 17, 2015

I'm very proud to announce the release of my new book, The Art of Impossible: The Bang & Olufsen Design Story, published by Thames & Hudson. Coming to a bookstore near you, with 240 pages photographed and written by yours truly ...

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Nov 17, 2015
The Real Wealth of Athens
Aug 25, 2015
The Real Wealth of Athens
Aug 25, 2015

In troubled times it is easy to forget what Greece has given to the world. The cradle of Western civilisation, Ancient Greece has provided us with much ...

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Aug 25, 2015
Inside the Biggest Vinyl Pressing Plant in the World, The Netherlands
Aug 12, 2015
Inside the Biggest Vinyl Pressing Plant in the World, The Netherlands
Aug 12, 2015

After moving house four times in one year, and lugging my 800 strong vinly record collection with me every time, I decided enough was enough. Seriously, have you ...

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Aug 12, 2015
Going to Space with Copenhagen Suborbitals, Denmark
Jun 9, 2015
Going to Space with Copenhagen Suborbitals, Denmark
Jun 9, 2015

In the old shipyard of Copenhagen a bunch of guys are on a mission to make a home-made rocket and go to space in it. Yep, really. If they do it they will make Denmark the fourth country ...

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Jun 9, 2015
Postcards of Modern Relics: The Facilities of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games
Apr 15, 2015
Postcards of Modern Relics: The Facilities of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games
Apr 15, 2015

If you google "Olympics Athens" you won't get hits about Greece being the birthplace of the Olympics, or about the glories of the two modern Olympics that have been held there ...

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Apr 15, 2015
The Magnets of the Large Hadron Collider
Apr 8, 2015
The Magnets of the Large Hadron Collider
Apr 8, 2015

This week the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN was turned back on after an upgrade that has taken two years to complete. I was recently commissioned by CERN to photograph their ...

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Apr 8, 2015
Trinity Methodist Church, England
Feb 12, 2015
Trinity Methodist Church, England
Feb 12, 2015

I'm no God-squadder, but I do like a good church - something to do with all that delicious symmetry and symbolism. Some crackers were built in the 60s, such as this sexy little number ...

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Feb 12, 2015
The Funniest Most Dangerous Place in the World: A Tourist Bus Ride to the Korean DMZ
Jan 19, 2015
The Funniest Most Dangerous Place in the World: A Tourist Bus Ride to the Korean DMZ
Jan 19, 2015

Our tour guide is doing a thumbs down and making a stinky face behind the back of the South Korean soldier that has just got on our bus. “They’re called the ‘rocks’” she had told us ...

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Jan 19, 2015
Bang & Olufsen: Inside The Aluminium Factory
Dec 8, 2014
Bang & Olufsen: Inside The Aluminium Factory
Dec 8, 2014

Bang & Olufsen (B&O) is the oldest consumer electronics company in the world. Founded in an attic in 1925 by two young electronics enthusiasts, Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen ...

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Dec 8, 2014
Helsingør Shipyard Buildings, Denmark
Oct 29, 2014
Helsingør Shipyard Buildings, Denmark
Oct 29, 2014

Perhaps better known to those outside Denmark as the home of Hamlet, Helsingør is a city on the Northeastern coast of the island of Zealand in the East of Denmark. For 100 years ...

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Oct 29, 2014
The World Of Cesar Manrique, Lanzarote
Sep 10, 2014
The World Of Cesar Manrique, Lanzarote
Sep 10, 2014

When we visited Lanzarote in March this year on a family holiday, it felt like a compromise. OK, so it's probably going to be sunny, warm (it wasn't), and its only a few hours away ...

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Sep 10, 2014
Building the Largest Ship In the World, South Korea
Sep 1, 2014
Building the Largest Ship In the World, South Korea
Sep 1, 2014

The Maersk Triple E is the largest ship on the planet, the pride and joy of the largest shipping company in the world. The ship was a huge hit with the public last year when it docked ...

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Sep 1, 2014
The Largest Underground Particle Physics Laboratory In The World, Italy
Aug 6, 2014
The Largest Underground Particle Physics Laboratory In The World, Italy
Aug 6, 2014

Nestled 1.4 kilometers under the highest mountain in central Italy, the Gran Sasso, is the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). The first experiments were conducted here in 1989 ...

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Aug 6, 2014
Inside One Of The World's Most Efficient Power Stations
Jul 22, 2014
Inside One Of The World's Most Efficient Power Stations
Jul 22, 2014

Just like the other two main power stations of Copenhagen, Svanemølleværket and H.C. Ørstedsværket, Avedøre Power Station (Avedøreværket) is a monument on the city's skyline ...

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Jul 22, 2014
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Ejnar Pedersen and PP Møbler
Jun 4, 2014
Ejnar Pedersen and PP Møbler
Jun 4, 2014

91 year old Ejnar Pedersen is one of Danish midcentury modernism's most prolific craftsmen, and founder of legendary furniture manufacturing company PP Møbler. Ejnar started PP Møbler ...

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Jun 4, 2014
Jicamarca Radio Observatory, Peru
May 12, 2014
Jicamarca Radio Observatory, Peru
May 12, 2014

"I had never been to Peru before and knew no Spanish. None of us "Gringos" knew much Spanish" says Dr. Donald Farley, ionospheric physicist and alumnus of Cornell, who ...

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May 12, 2014
Portraits Of Artists In Their Studios For MINDCRAFT 14, Milan
May 6, 2014
Portraits Of Artists In Their Studios For MINDCRAFT 14, Milan
May 6, 2014

I took a series of portraits of the artists and designers participating in MINDCRAFT 14 at Milan Design Week. The pictures were for the exhibition catalogue and were also hung ...

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May 6, 2014
H.C. Ørsted Power Station, Copenhagen
Apr 22, 2014
H.C. Ørsted Power Station, Copenhagen
Apr 22, 2014

H.C. Ørstedsværket is a natural gas fired power station in Copenhagen. Built between 1916 and 1920, the power station became the largest in Denmark and was the first to use alternating ...

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Apr 22, 2014
The Test Facilities of The European Space Agency, The Netherlands
Apr 2, 2014
The Test Facilities of The European Space Agency, The Netherlands
Apr 2, 2014

A soundsystem that is so loud you would die instantly if you were in the room when it was turned on. A huge vacuum chamber that can achieve a vacuum a billion times lower ...

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Apr 2, 2014
The Future of Nuclear Fusion, England
Mar 10, 2014
The Future of Nuclear Fusion, England
Mar 10, 2014

OK kids, it's time for a science lesson. This is Culham Centre for Fusion Energy near Oxford in England. It houses two of the world's foremost experiments into nuclear fusion energy ...

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Mar 10, 2014
Svanemølleværket Power Station, Denmark
Feb 26, 2014
Svanemølleværket Power Station, Denmark
Feb 26, 2014

Designed by architect Louis Hygom and built between 1947 and 1953, Svanemølleværket provides district heating to Copenhagen. Situated in Nordhavn to the north of the city ...

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Feb 26, 2014
The Labyrinth of Josep Pujiula, Spain
Feb 13, 2014
The Labyrinth of Josep Pujiula, Spain
Feb 13, 2014

A few years ago I was in Sweden where I visited a strange land called Ladonia, containing huge 30 meter high labyrinthine wooden sculptures built by artist Lars Vilks ..

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Feb 13, 2014
S.N.S Herning, Denmark
Feb 5, 2014
S.N.S Herning, Denmark
Feb 5, 2014

S.N.S. Herning is a knitting company based in Herning, Denmark. Founded in 1931 by Søren Nielsen Skyt, the company is famous for producing an iconic "fisherman" sweater using ...

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Feb 5, 2014
Danish Crown Slaughterhouse, Denmark
Jan 6, 2014
Danish Crown Slaughterhouse, Denmark
Jan 6, 2014

Right, I'm going to kick off this post by saying that I am not a squeamish person. I love food, I love meat, and I particularly love pork. In an ideal world, we would all get our meat from ...

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Jan 6, 2014
Avoriaz: The Enchanting Village
Jan 3, 2014
Avoriaz: The Enchanting Village
Jan 3, 2014

For the sake of posterity, I've decided to make this blog post about my exhibition "Avoriaz: The Enchanting Village". The pictures can be seen in various other posts on my blog, but here ...

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Jan 3, 2014
Tivoli Gardens, Denmark
Dec 19, 2013
Tivoli Gardens, Denmark
Dec 19, 2013

Tivoli is a magical place. I know that's what every theme park in the world wants you to think about their theme park, but in the case of Tivoli, I think there is some truth to it ...

Read More →
Dec 19, 2013
Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant, Sweden
Nov 26, 2013
Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant, Sweden
Nov 26, 2013

Barsebäck is a decommissioned nuclear power plant in Sweden. Situated just 20 km from Copenhagen, on the other side of the Øresund Strait, the two iconic reactors of the power plant ...

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Nov 26, 2013
Laon Cathedral, France
Oct 22, 2013
Laon Cathedral, France
Oct 22, 2013

Located in Picardy, the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon is one of the most important example of the Gothic architecture of the 12th and 13th centuries. The site of the cathedral had been ...

Read More →
Oct 22, 2013
Return to CERN, Switzerland
Oct 18, 2013
Return to CERN, Switzerland
Oct 18, 2013

This year I returned to CERN, somewhere I am lucky to visit every now and then to photograph some of the mind-boggling things that are happening there. (Check out my last visit here) ...

Read More →
Oct 18, 2013
A Short History of Beer in Lithuanian
Oct 16, 2013
A Short History of Beer in Lithuanian
Oct 16, 2013

It is hard to imagine a better job offer than being asked to travel round Lithuania with your brother and sister drinking beautiful, beautiful fresh beer, meeting crazy, friendly people ...

Read More →
Oct 16, 2013
Kempton Park Steam Engines, England
Aug 28, 2013
Kempton Park Steam Engines, England
Aug 28, 2013

These are the Kempton Park Steam Engines in London. They are huge. Built between 1926 and 1929, one of the engines, The Sir William Prescott, has been restored to ...

Read More →
Aug 28, 2013
Provençal Graveyard Portraits, France
Aug 22, 2013
Provençal Graveyard Portraits, France
Aug 22, 2013

I'm a big fan of graveyards. In Southern Europe, and doubtless in many other parts of the world, it is normal to have a portrait of the deceased attached to the gravestone, something ...

Read More →
Aug 22, 2013
Pierrot at Tivoli, Denmark
Jun 22, 2013
Pierrot at Tivoli, Denmark
Jun 22, 2013

Pierrot is the sad clown. A stock pantomime character, originating in Italy in the late 17th century, Pierrot is often portrayed as a naive fool who is in love with Columbine, who leaves him for Harlequin.

Read More →
Jun 22, 2013
Fawley Refinery, England
Apr 23, 2013
Fawley Refinery, England
Apr 23, 2013

Fawley Oil Refinery is the largest oil refinery in the UK, refining approximately 330,000 barrels of crude oil a day (20% of the UK's capacity). Owned by Esso, the refinery was established in 1921 ...

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Apr 23, 2013
Ice Floes of the North Sea, Denmark
Feb 18, 2013
Ice Floes of the North Sea, Denmark
Feb 18, 2013

This is the the North Sea, on the west coast of Denmark. The wind has blown ice floes up onto the land, and now the sea ice has crept up onto the fields which lie by the sea ...

Read More →
Feb 18, 2013
Radio Anechoic Chamber, Denmark
Feb 4, 2013
Radio Anechoic Chamber, Denmark
Feb 4, 2013

This is the radio anechoic chamber at Denmark's Technical University (DTU). It opened in 1967, and is currently operated with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the testing of ...

Read More →
Feb 4, 2013
Copenhagen Suborbitals, Denmark
Jan 25, 2013
Copenhagen Suborbitals, Denmark
Jan 25, 2013

In a small shed in the outskirts of Copenhagen's old shipyard, two amazing men and their team have a mission. They want to go into space in a home-made rocket. And they are serious ...

Read More →
Jan 25, 2013
The World's Largest Solar Furnace, France
Dec 19, 2012
The World's Largest Solar Furnace, France
Dec 19, 2012

The first time I saw the Odeillo Solar Furnace was in an article called "the 10 strangest buildings in the world" or something like that. I was amazed and I knew that I just had to go ...

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Dec 19, 2012
CERN, Switzerland
Nov 14, 2012
CERN, Switzerland
Nov 14, 2012

CERN is a wonderful place. Human beings do magnificent things there. It is the birthplace of the internet, and it is the home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the worlds largest ...

Read More →
Nov 14, 2012
The Mont-Louis Solar Furnace, France
Nov 7, 2012
The Mont-Louis Solar Furnace, France
Nov 7, 2012

The Mont-Louis solar furnace, built in 1949 by Dr. Felix Trombe, is an experimental solar energy facility in the French Pyrenees. It's the first of its kind in the world, and was the ...

Read More →
Nov 7, 2012
Guildford United Reform Church, England
Oct 31, 2012
Guildford United Reform Church, England
Oct 31, 2012

I've driven past the Guildford United Reform Church countless times in my youth; the church sits on Portsmouth Road, one of the main roads out of town, and was built in 1965 ...

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Oct 31, 2012
Vestforbrænding Incineration Plant, Denmark
Oct 24, 2012
Vestforbrænding Incineration Plant, Denmark
Oct 24, 2012

Vestforbrænding in Glostrup, just outside Copenhagen, is the largest waste incineration plant in Denmark. That means it's the place where Danish rubbish ends up after it has been chucked ...

Read More →
Oct 24, 2012
The R J Mitchell Wind Tunnel, England
Oct 10, 2012
The R J Mitchell Wind Tunnel, England
Oct 10, 2012

The R J Mitchell Wind Tunnel at the University of Southampton is one of those places that you dream of when you are a little boy. The big propellers, the science fiction atmosphere ...

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Oct 10, 2012