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In a secret society
This book could have been titled ‘The Last Resort’, but someone else has already laid claim to that. In it David Moore has documented the hermetic world of an underground crisis management command centre, somewhere beneath London. He, and his curator Angela Weight, gained access to this highly secret world through the manager of the art collection at the Ministry of Defence. Yes, there is such a person. The ‘bunker’ sits in a permanent state of stand-by, used as a meeting place for government, civil servants and the military at times of crisis, such as the start of the war in Iraq or following a terrorist attack. Outside such events, the place is sparsely populated. Not surprisingly, no-one appears in Moore’s photographs. And for reasons of security some of the images have been doctored: the map, above, being one example.
The Last Things, by David Moore, is published by Dewi Lewis Publishing at £25, ISBN 978-1-904587-66-8.
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