I work with photography to explore landscape and the everyday built environment in Britain. Influenced by the New Topographics movement, my work examines how places are shaped by use, neglect, and time, and how these spaces reflect broader social change. I am drawn to ordinary and overlooked locations, where traces of the past remain visible in the present.
This project takes its title from an old seaside slogan once printed on souvenir hats and T-shirts — a small reference to Blackpool’s past. The work itself is not about nostalgia. It is an intimate portrait of the town where I grew up, made after returning following my mother’s death. What began as a personal attempt to reconnect with place gradually became a wider reflection on Blackpool’s changing identity: its harder edges, its quieter moments, and the dry humour that continues alongside visible decline.
The series sits between documentary and personal narrative. It examines the overlap between memory and present-day reality in the everyday — in traders and seasonal workers, faded signage, leftover illuminations, and the worn fabric of a once-glamorous resort. The photographs are quietly observed, leaning into melancholy while retaining the affection and wit that shape the town’s character. Seascapes appear throughout as pauses — moments of stillness between arcades and empty streets.
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