Dungeness
Gary Hill
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![eng0035bw15x10pnewcom-orig_orig Decaying fishing boat under a mackerel sky on the shingle beach at Dungeness in England](https://www.irefuteitthus.com/wp-content/uploads/eng0035bw15x10pnewcom-orig_orig.jpg)
It's probably become a bit of a cliché for photographers to head down to Dungeness for a days shooting. When my wife told a guy from the same village as us, who's also a keen photographer, that I was away in Kent, England he apparently rolled his eyes skyward; he knew exactly where I had gone. But this boat graveyard really is a special place. Not exactly "England's only desert" as described by the ever-hyperbolic 'Daily Mail' a couple of years ago, but certainly one of its most unique and atmospheric, quiet and unromantically beautiful places. It's hard to imagine from these images that just a kilometre or so to the right as you look out at sea, there's a godawful ugly concrete nuclear power station. I'm told that a million people a year visit Dungeness. If so, they must all go together in summer. The crunch of my feet on the shingle and the squeal of seagulls was all I heard in March. I was fortunate enough to get an appropriate mackerel sky on one of the days I visited but I would have eagerly traded that for one the famous mists that drift in from the sea. That would really add to the eeriness.
Maybe it'll happen next time I go all clichéd. Meanwhile, here's some images from 2011. I'm told the boats and sheds have deteriorated greatly since then.
![eng0039bw15x10pnewcom-orig_orig The bow of a decaying fishing boat sitting on the shingle beach at Dungeness](https://www.irefuteitthus.com/wp-content/uploads/eng0039bw15x10pnewcom-orig_orig.jpg)
![eng0040bw15x10pnewcom-orig Decaying fishing boat sitting alone on the shingle beach at Dungeness](https://www.irefuteitthus.com/wp-content/uploads/eng0040bw15x10pnewcom-orig.jpg)
![eng0042bw15x10newcom-orig_orig A decaying fishing boat, winch and wooden hut sit under a mackerel sky on a shingle beach at Dungeness](https://www.irefuteitthus.com/wp-content/uploads/eng0042bw15x10newcom-orig_orig.jpg)
![eng0044bw15x10pnewcom-orig_orig An abandoned fishing boat under a menacing sky at Dungeness](https://www.irefuteitthus.com/wp-content/uploads/eng0044bw15x10pnewcom-orig_orig.jpg)
![eng0053bw10x15pnewcom_orig The bow of a decaying fishing boat under a mackerel sky at Dungeness](https://www.irefuteitthus.com/wp-content/uploads/eng0053bw10x15pnewcom_orig.jpg)
'Dungeness'. Original images and written content © Gary Hill 2011. All rights reserved. Not in public domain. If you wish to use my work for anything other than legal 'fair use' (i.e., non-profit educational or scholarly research or critique purposes) please contact me for permission first.
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