ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the visible form of experimental fieldwork investigation: field reconnaissance, research excursions and exploratory documentation through photography. This fieldwork inverts the logic of surveillance per se as it relies both on observation and on remaining overtly visible in the field. It also involves carefully analysing legal documents and case histories, including public statements from government officials pertaining to the use of photography and the Official Secrets Act, including the official UK government D-Notice committee that advises on documenting military installations. The constant duality in author research method, performed overtly in plain sight, observing the covert spaces of knowledge, drawing on official and unofficial information, naturally leads to places which are rife with speculations, sites which are massive in the social imaginary, notorious or celebrated. Military researchers is a direct and situated intervention that embraces and shapes, leads and interprets both imaginary and physical encounters with militaristic sites of technological and scientific experimentation.
