Three different postcards of Christopher Payne’s dynamic industrial photography exhibition Made in America:

A tipping machine adds metal ferrules and erasers to pencils. General Pencil Company, Jersey City, New Jersey.

American flags in production on a rotary screen printer. Annin Flagmakers, South Boston, Virginia.

Stargate, a 3D metal printer, prints a Terran 1 rocket. Relativity Space, Long Beach California.

Trained as an architect, Payne (b. 1968) is fascinated by design, assembly and the built form. Payne’s work has appeared frequently in The New York Times Magazine and in other major publications around the world, including The New Yorker, National Geographic, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Time and Wired, among many others.