What's outside the frame?

The film and theatre director, Derek Jarman bought a shack on a pebble foreshore in Kent. Dying of AIDS-related illness, he wrote of the peace he found creating a garden of salt-tolerant plants, driftwood and stones.

The media have portrayed Jarman's retreat as remote and isolated. In fact it is one of a row of weekend houses under the shadow of the Dungeness nuclear power station and near a popular pub. The truth is in the wider frame: the place may be strange but it's busy and far from isolated.