Guardian Camera Club: Rob Painter on housing photography

1. A cottage on Dungeness Estate, neighbouring the power station. Dungeness is at the end of a 1.5 mile shingle promontory on Romney Marsh in Kent. It is a desolate and austerely beautiful landscape. The Dungeness Estate is a sporadic collection of cottages, huts and sheds built on the shingle and in the shadow of a nuclear power station. As housing estates go, it has a totally unique, out of this world and out of all time quality Photograph: Rob Painter/Flickr

2. Garage Cottage, Dungeness Estate. On the windswept and barren shingle the houses of the estate are set far apart and seem isolated. Not your typical seaside resort. The tide around Dungeness is known to carry off the strongest swimmers Photograph: Rob Painter/Flickr

3. Lone cottage and flotsam garden, Dungeness Estate. There are few boundaries to speak of save the space itself. The shingle ground permits only specialised flora and the gardens are decorated with drift wood, flotsam and jetsam. The garden to the right of this cottage included a colourful collection of plastic beach shoes Photograph: Rob Painter/Flickr

4. Prospect Cottage, Dungeness Estate. The late Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage and shingle garden. Excerpts of John Donne's poem, The Sun Rising are carved in raised wooden text on the side of the cottage Photograph: Rob Painter/Flickr

5. Angling Parties. One of the eighty or so shacks on the estate. Typically unkempt but somehow noble and honest. Living with the weeds and old bits of net curtain. What are "angling parties" and who goes to them? I don't know Photograph: Rob Painter/Flickr

6. Cottage and Lighthouse, Dungeness Estate. Three sheds and a static caravan are not enough to house the items collected around this cottage. The working lighthouse stands tall in the background and almost looks a part of this motley collection of buildings and material Photograph: Rob Painter/Flickr