![]() ![]() Human-rights groups and courts have questioned the legality of many of its aspects. ![]() Politicians on all sides – when it suits them – have criticised the current asylum system. I have written more about the sites depicted for the Guardian newspaper: The resultant film – a walkthrough of the virtual environments created by Picture Plane based on research and investigation of real spaces – is a simulacram that nevertheless reveals a reality, one which has remained hidden behind law and indifference. I then took these plans to Picture Plane, a leading architectural visualiser about whose work I have written at length before. Field House in the City is the home of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), designed around the presentation of secret evidence, Harmondsworth IRC at Heathrow is just one part of the UK’s detention estate, and the Inflite Jet Centre at Stansted is where I watched the deportation flights take place in December 2013 – and where they still carry on.Įach of these spaces is “unphotographable” in the traditional sense, so I used investigative journalism techniques, eyewitness accounts and other research to reconstruct each of them. Seamless Transitions is a visualisation of three spaces of immigration judgement, detention and deportation in the UK. I’d previously worked with Katrina Sluis, Digital Curator at TPG, on The Joy of Gif, the very first Media Wall exhibition, and am a huge admirer of previous commissions by Erica Scourti and Alan Warburton. I was commissioned by the Photographer’s Gallery in London to produce a work for their Media Wall, a large digital screen in a prominent public space on the ground floor of the gallery. ![]() (NB: Web version is much reduced quality) ![]()
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