Dungeness is a unique place. Its vast, sprawling landscape is incredibly flat and open to the elements.

It’s never not windy here.

It’s often described as ‘desolate’ and ‘bleak’, but it’s not really. Look closely and you’ll spot million pound holiday homes and modernist, black-panelled Airbnbs amongst the more modest fisherman’s shacks and converted Victorian railway carriages. But it can be quiet. On a good day the only other person you might see is your own shadow.

Dungeness is a place of contrast. It’s a protected National Nature Reserve home to rare birds, vipers bugloss and wealthy denizens, who live alongside the abandoned boats, derelict huts and the few long term residents that hint at its previous life as a fishing stronghold. 

Its nuclear power station has witnessed a lot of this change. Its harsh, square lines are visible for miles down the coast. Get up close though and its constant, bassy ‘hum’ is a disconcerting reminder of the potential dangers lurking within.

This ongoing project looks at the buildings that make up the Dungeness headland. The area is most well known for its nature and wildlife, but its architecture is arguably its defining, and certainly most prominent feature.