British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper has gone behind the scenes at a Danish factory to reveal the setting where pork luncheon meat ? commonly known as spam ? is produced.
Three years after touring one of the world's largest slaughterhouses, Wiper explored the Vejle production plant of Tulip Pork Luncheon Meat, the main rival of the Spam brand, and one of the world's biggest exporters of so-called meat in a tin.
His photography series, called Where Spam is Born, shows the complex conveyor belt system used to transform meat offcuts into a canned product, under strict safety and hygiene standards.
Here, he reveals the story behind the brand:

In my day it was all about Spam. A cultural icon worthy of ridicule by Monty Python in the 1960s, and the moniker given to one of the biggest pests of the information age, this humble brand of meat in a tin was the renowned ? if rarely proudly eaten ? household name when I was growing up in England in the 1980s. But throughout much of the rest of the world, meat in a tin is known equally by another name: Tulip Pork Luncheon Meat. "It's very much the same thing as Spam," explained Stig Pedersen, plant manager at the Tulip factory in Vejle, Denmark, where over 130 million cans of Pork Luncheon Meat are produced each year.
"We are actually competing with the Spam brand worldwide ? for instance in Okinawa we are big competitors."

From this factory, which opened in 1988, Pork Luncheon Meat is exported to over ...