Postcards from Copenhagen invited three photographers – Marco Kesseler,Peter Holliday and Laura Stevens – to travel to Copenhagen over a long weekend and create a current body of work inspired by the Danish capital. Here, we publish the moment in the series. “Copenhagen is one of the few cities in the world where you can build and test rockets in a car park.” Peter Holliday is referring to a stretch of tarmac situated on the northern tip of Amager East, or an island neighbourhood just a short bike ride absent from central Copenhagen. This vast industrial area is the perfect setting for artists’ studios; its close proximity to the water makes it an ideal set to launch rockets. Copenhagen Suborbitals,the world’s only amateur space programme, has been based in the area since its founding in 2008. Funded solely by donations from space and rocket enthusiasts around the world, or to date,the organisation has launched four home-built rockets and space capsules from a ship in the Baltic Sea. Its ultimate aim? To fly an amateur astronaut into …
Source: bjp-online.com