Unintended Beauty

Marigold Warner | Lens Culture | 1st November 2025

The German photographer Andreas Gursky pioneered images of industrial buildings and infrastructure. Wiper has emerged as another photographer exploring that industrial aesthetic. His work didn’t emerge from a prior interest in industry or engineering but rather from discovering their “accidental aesthetics. You have this first layer of graphical symmetry … [but] there’s another layer of ‘what’s actually happening here [We are dissociated] from the science and technology underpinning our lives”.