‘Out of Season’

From the careful steps around the sandcastle buckets to shoes left by the people playing in the sea, to the endless queues for classic fish and chips ships or ice-cream, the beach is a warm wonderland of fun to the outsider visiting for the day. However, once the clocks turn back, the visitors return home forgetting about the beach until the sun returns the next year.

As I am not originally from a coastal town, I only experienced this wonderland in the sun when there are thousands of others doing the same. After moving to a coastal town, I witnessed the disappearing crowds which left in its place closed down shops and minimal life except for the original residents of the town. I intend to document the coastal towns out of season during the winter months to show how the landscape had been abandoned by people from all over the country, only to return when the summer does.