Creative Essay
Author: Liam Healy (School of Architecture, University of Sheffield)
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.
Keywords: borders, Calais, migration, infrastructure, ecology
How to Cite: Healy, L. (2024) “Calais Topographics: A Photo Essay”, field. 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.62471/field.134
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