Inside the milling machine it looks like a storm. Chips and coolant fly in every direction, and that is where the tolerances are made. No person can follow it in there, so it gets a GoPro, rigged before the door closes.
Microbas Precision in Hässleholm machines granite, glass ceramics, optical glass and metal into components for semiconductors, space technology and metrology. For them I have made product shots against a white background, portraits, workplace photography and a corporate film, plus a film about the hall one night when nobody is there but the machines keep going.
The chain is roughly the same every time: milling, grinding, lapping, measuring. Machines handle much of it, but the last step is often done by hand. I try to follow the part all the way, from the machine to the hands that feel the surface and the measuring machine that decides whether it holds.
Most of what decides quality in a precision workshop doesn't show in a picture. A surface that is flat to a thousandth of a millimetre looks like any other surface. So everything around it has to tell the story: the hands, the light in the measuring room, the concentration.
Manufacturing is what I most like to photograph. I get to see how things are actually made, and I ask more questions than the pictures strictly need. I work as an industrial photographer and filmmaker across Skåne, with photo, film and drone for workshops and manufacturers who want to show their production as it is.
- Client
- Microbas Precision AB
- Location
- Hässleholm, Sweden
- Year
- 2018-2026
- Category
- Photo & Film
