Control Order House

The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, has acquired works from Edmund Clark’s series ‘Control Order House'. The work is on display in the V&A Photography Centre.

'Control Order House is the result of exclusive access, in December 2011, to work and stay in a house in which a man suspected of involvement with terrorist-related activity had been placed under a Control Order. Access was granted for up to six days, and had to be cleared by the Home Office and the controlled person’s lawyers. It would be an offence if any aspect of this work revealed his identity or the location of the house. Work was ultimately restricted to three days and two nights in the house, because the controlled person, known for legal purposes as CE (although these are not his initials) was moved. Control Order House explores this form of detention through photographs and architectural representations of the house, and the handwritten diary that CE was asked to contribute.

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