“Apple-2” House Used in Atomic Bomb Test at the Nevada National Security Site Nevada, USA, 2022
If photographers are characterized by the qualities of their gaze, Alastair Philip Wiper would be described as a precise, ironic eye that fluttered around unfrequented, disturbing, unholy places. In Building Stories, his latest album, published like an artist’s book, the Briton explores spaces, shapes, artefacts, and atmospheres of the ‘nuclear’ universe, offering a sheaf of visual narratives protagonized by some of the most astonishing creations that we might call ‘dark modernity’: towns built for nuclear experiments conducted in the Nevada desert, US government decontamination chambers, anti-radiation basements of Las Vegas hotels, the red toilet of the Albanian dictator Hoxha’s bunker.
Vitra Schaudepot Weil am Rhein, Germany, 2016
Chalet l’Ours II Avoriaz, France, 2012
Pal’s Sudden Service Drive Through Burger Restaurant Tennessee, USA, 2022
Silver Legacy Resort Casino Reno, Nevada, USA, 2022
Underground Nuclear Fallout Shelter Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2022
The Danish National Archives (Landsarkivet) Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
2004 Olympic Aquatic Complex Athens, Greece, 2015
