Abstract

The photos in this essay were taken in 2019, three years after the Jungle camp, Calais’ largest improvised refugee camp, had been cleared in 2016 and re-landscaped into an eco-park. The images focus on what I see as the ‘new topographics’ of the Calais landscape, a name borrowed from William Jenkins’ (1974, 1975) influential New Topographics exhibition from 1975 which radicalised the often romantic view of landscape photography to focus on ‘man-altered’ landscapes and infrastructures. In this series of photos, the infrastructures are those that participate in upholding the UK border in France.

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