{"id":636,"date":"2023-08-15T10:55:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T09:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irefuteitthus.local\/?page_id=636"},"modified":"2024-02-04T16:41:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T16:41:17","slug":"dungeness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/irefuteitthus.local\/dungeness\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungeness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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It’s probably become a bit of a\u00a0clich\u00e9 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<\/em>” 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\u00a0sky 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.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’ll happen next time I go all\u00a0clich\u00e9d. Meanwhile, here’s some images from 2011. I’m told the boats and sheds have deteriorated greatly since then.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"The\n\t\t\t\t\"Decaying\n\t\t\t\t\"A\n\t\t\t\t\"An\n\t\t\t\t\"The\n\t

‘Dungeness’. Original images and written content \u00a9 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<\/a> <\/strong>for permission first.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Divider\"\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"Logo\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dungeness Gary Hill It’s probably become a bit of a\u00a0clich\u00e9 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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"folder":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irefuteitthus.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irefuteitthus.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irefuteitthus.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irefuteitthus.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irefuteitthus.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/irefuteitthus.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/irefuteitthus.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irefuteitthus.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irefuteitthus.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}