Author: dmanderphoto
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Candid street images.
Candidly photographing random strangers on the street. Well, It’s been a wild few years! I’ve been co-founding and curating HIVEArts, an awesome alternative gallery space in Blackpool. It’s become a real community hub where artists can gather, have a coffee and chat about all things creative. But admittedly, all this activity has left me with…
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Tram Ride Home.
A late journey home at the end of the season meant a tram halfway but when I saw what a great photo opportunity it turned out to be I was really happy I missed the bus.
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Developing & Printing.
Found this colourful scrabble of words & signs under a rather grotty corrugated plastic awning.
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Canonet in New Brighton.
My lovely retro Canonet 35mm was a gift from a photographer friend who is honestly a wiz when repairing and fixing old cameras. Well off we set to New Brighton to see if anything was happening and for me to see if I could still remember the basics of analogue photography. We had a great…
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Channeling Ruscha, Shore & Herzog in Canada.
Adventures of an Old Bird. On a recent trip to Nova Scotia and inspired by beautiful books the kids gift me for birthdays and Christmas I set out to find my Stephen Shore, Fred Herzog moment. Canada, a most beautiful country and I’ve never seen so many trees and vast expanses of water but saying…
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Windows.
I’m always drawn to empty shops, empty hotels, any building in the middle of or in need of renovation. The interiors seem to hold a story and there’s something nostalgic about these windows when the light is just right and the reflected streets are empty.
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Reflecting the Pier in Blackpool.
Late afternoon light enhancing the reflections of these images taken in Blackpool betwee 2018/2019.
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‘STAGEFRIGHT’ — Camera Go Camera
THE EXHIBITION OF PHOTOS BY DAWN MANDER 01.08.2022 – 05.09.2022 This weekend I went to Blackpool with a couple of friends I met on a photo walk in Liverpool. I should stop saying that because they are friends now, with or without a previous walk. I can’t see us ever not being friends 🙂 Anyway,…
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Audible Sigh
Sometimes, especially on this wonderful coast, the light of the spring sunset hits just right, catching the windows of deserted hotels and lighting the walls of their empty spaces. Closed and shuttered now, the ghosts of spring times past walk through empty breakfast rooms.
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Socially Isolating in Blackpool
A very different view of the U.K’s favorite seaside town, famous for its Tower, Pleasure Beach, Illuminations, family holidays, Stags & Hens parties, and rowdy nights out, Blackpool is very quiet this spring time. There is however a strange poetic beauty in the stillness and quiet, giving me the opportunity to capture these fabulous buildings…
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Appleby Horse Fair
Images from June 2018 Probably the most looked forward to event of the year, for me anyway, always guaranteed a great time with wonderful people. Sadly wont be happening this year but that can only mean next year will be better than ever.
Just Photography. 