Welcome To Dungeness

Yellow book titled 'Welcome to Dungeness' by Edward Thompson, featuring a photo of a dilapidated shack in an open field on the cover.

Fabled as Britains only desert its an area I knew well as I grew up with a view of the nuclear power stations of Dungeness from my bedroom window. And although it is somewhere often cited for its desolation and remoteness I found life there, real life. 

In 2011 I photographed the area of Dungeness in Kent, England. It became my first work published as a photo-essay in The Guardian Weekend Magazine.

Its the third in a series of photo books from my archive following In-A-Gadda-Da-England and When In The Lone Star State

Offset printed by KOPA
Hardback cover
Debossed photograph and gold foil text
296mm x 296mm
100 pages
1 Gatefold 
500 copies (255 copies left)
ISBN: 978 1 7397816 2 0

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A house with corrugated roofing and yellow window frames, surrounded by a garden with various plants, weathered wooden posts, and a gravel foreground, under a clear blue sky.
Two boys sit on a grassy field, engaging in a conversation or activity, with a large electrical transmission tower, buildings, and a partly cloudy sky in the background.
View through a window with black grid bars, showing a lighthouse on the coast and a cloudy sky in the background.
A woman relaxing outdoors on a deck chair in front of a rustic wooden building with a corrugated roof, next to a patterned pillow, with a porch light visible. There are modern buildings in the background and a clear blue sky overhead.
A webpage from RIBA Journal featuring an article titled "Welcome to Dungness: Britain's only desert." The page includes a photo of a nuclear power plant with a large cooling tower and an electrical transmission tower, along with two children sitting on the grass in the foreground.
Image of a nuclear power plant with some small houses in the foreground and a clear blue sky.
A collage of two images showing a coastal landscape and a boy with a bicycle outdoors.
A magazine spread with a large nuclear power plant in the background and small homes in the foreground. The right page has the title "Picture Power" and some text in Japanese. The left page shows a family outdoors with children playing in the yard.
Young boy wearing a white cap and red T-shirt with graphic design, standing outdoors in a rural or construction area with wooden structures, electrical towers, and industrial buildings in the background.

PRESS

Huck Magazine

Royal Institute of British Architects Journal

Peta-Pixel

The Guardian Weekend Magazine

Newsweek Japan