Abstract

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