Dungeness and photo cliches
Last weekend we managed to get down to Dungeness to have a wander around and take a few photos. It’s one of those places we’ve been meaning to get to for a while now so added it to the New Years list of things to do and get on with it. We drove down from Peckham in the van and ended up at The Pilot for a decent fish and chips lunch.
I’ve seen so many photos of the place that it almost seemed like a cliche to take any photos at all. Boats, bleak horizons, houses, derelict sheds etc and shot countless times and over processed or HDR added. It was still nice to wander around in such a strange and unique context. The perfectly formed architectural shots of the recent Simon Condor and NORD houses leave little idea of the wider surroundings and often ramshackle nature of the structures that exist – or maybe survive is a better word.
There also seemed to be a local vernacular of single storey timber buildings furnished with a metal roof and with external shed added. A ladder is often present which gains access to the roof void over. This typology clearly inspired the NORD house.
I have a collection of photos of the houses which I’ll save for another post. Here’s my cliche shots for now.
