What a piece of luck to be able to follow an enormous industrial adventure from A to Z. And what luck that it was achieved by a photographer who knew how to calculate the perfect distance, showing the enormity, the human and technological adventure, the infrastructures, and the countless details.
In order to build the Airbus A 380, it seems that everything had to be invented from scratch: the buildings, the means of transport, the equipment, right down to the launching events in a exceptional scale.
And this is where the talent of the photographer comes in. How to convey the feeling of such enormity without compromising creativity. How to “make a picture” when everything is already so spectacular.
Step by step, three years’ work is revealed. Mark Power, e member of Magnum Photos, tells an industrial fairy tale.