Calais Topographics: a photo essay

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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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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Healy, L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5713-0610
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2023 The Authors. Article made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords:	borders; Calais; migration; infrastructure; ecology
Dates:	Published: 13 May 2024 Published (online): 13 May 2024 Accepted: 14 December 2023
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture and Landscape
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	25 Sep 2024 10:10
Last Modified:	25 Sep 2024 23:04
Status:	Published
Publisher:	School of Architecture, University of Sheffield
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.62471/field.134
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:217607

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