British Seaside Towns

2023

This photography project looks at British seaside towns through everyday encounters and peripheral moments, focusing on the quiet rhythms of coastal life rather than spectacle or nostalgia. The work brings attention to ordinary scenes—local residents, modest architectures, and subtle gestures that shape these towns as lived environments.

Approaching these places from the position of a cultural outsider, the project reflects a sustained curiosity toward spaces deeply embedded in British collective memory. For many, seaside towns are tied to childhood, leisure, and familiarity; here, distance becomes a way of seeing. This perspective allows overlooked details to surface, revealing how intimacy with place can form through observation rather than belonging.

Through portraits and environmental images, the work considers how memory, routine, and community quietly coexist within these landscapes, presenting the seaside as a space of lived experience rather than romantic ideal.