EDMUND SUMNER Occasionally, you come across a photographer who subverts a genre to such an extent that they almost create a new one. For me, Alastair Philip Wiper is one such figure. Through his exploration of industry and science, he reveals a world that is at once extraordinary and deeply strange – spaces and processes that most of us will never encounter, let alone truly understand. There’s a tension in his work that I find compelling: it is heroic, comical, and, at times, faintly petrifying.

ELORA HARDY Creating Lunuganga is what provoked Geoffrey Bawa to become an architect. A former rubber and cinnamon estate, he first renovated it, then over decades of observing and adjusting, it became his lifelong learning lab. Bawa listened to and borrowed from Sri Lankan culture and history, and Lunuganga feels like it belongs to where it is. Beyond the structures, he continually evolved the composition of landscape, terrain and objects, turning it into a sequence of moments of discovery, within and without.