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The strange world of space travel

From Russia's cosmonaut training facility to NASA's Apollo control centre, see photographer Vincent Fournier's peek inside the institutions of the space industries
Dreamy sci-fi world
Dreamy sci-fi world
(Image:Vincent Fournier/The Space Project/Courtesy of The Steps Gallery, London, UK)

In The Space Project, Brussels-based photographer takes us on a curious photographic journey through the retro-infused, futuristic world of the age of space-travel. 聽

Over the four years of work on this project Fournier has managed to gain access to some of the most important and often secretive facilities and institutions of the space-age,聽 including , in Utah, the Guiana Space Centre and Nasa鈥檚 Apollo control centre.

Fournier uses this access to re-interpretate his topic with a sense of irony and aesthetic that has been compared to an 鈥渆ncounter with Jules Verne and Jacques Tati鈥.聽 Whilst the facilities and settings are real, the images are created聽 to invoke something that is not there, a dreamy science-fiction world that highlights an 鈥渁mbivalence between fantasy and reality鈥

The Space Project is on display at until 17th Janurary 2010.

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