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Friday, August 12, 2011

Preview show at FYCreatives

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Image by Andy Ford.
Preview show was amazing at FYCreatives (Aug 12). Teddy Cook was outstanding, Anna Byrom's delicious cakes were consumed at more than one per person.
And thanks to everyone who came, and especially Tom Ireland of Supercollider for his support and hard work in putting on the show.
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Brilliant Blackpool opens today

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The zine for sale:

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Setting up Brilliant Blackpool at FYCreatives

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Just to make sure you know: It's 6pm this Friday (Aug 12) at FYCreatives on Church Street in Blackpool. Postcode is FY1 3PS.The show runs until Wednesday, August 31. It's open Mon-Fri 10am until 5pm.
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Thanks to Tom Ireland (pictured) for his leadership in putting up the images.
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Setting up Brilliant Blackpool at FYCreatives

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Just to make sure you know: It's 6pm this Friday (Aug 12) at FYCreatives on Church Street in Blackpool. Postcode is FY1 3PS.The show runs until Wednesday, August 31. It's open Mon-Fri 10am until 5pm.

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Thanks to Tom Ireland (pictured) for his leadership in putting up the images.

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One day to go until Brilliant Blackpool opens

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Only one of these images has made it into the show. If you want to come along for the opening night get in touch. If you just turn up I'll probably let you in anyway. The plan is to have wine and sweets.
And you can also buy the zine from the show:

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UK £2.00 Europe £3.00 Rest of World £4.50
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One day to go until Brilliant Blackpool opens

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Only one of these images has made it into the show. If you want to come along for the opening night get in touch. If you just turn up I'll probably let you in anyway. The plan is to have wine and sweets.
And you can also buy the zine from the show:

Postage options
Love_town_blackpool_cover
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

What do you know? Two days to go. Brilliant Blackpool

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I've been working so hard on this exhibition that's it's getting to the point now where I'm not sure which images are in the exhibition and which are not.

The final selection will not be made until hanging day tomorrow. But this one will definitely be in.

Find out how to get to FYCreatives here.

I've been helped in putting on this exhibition by Tom Ireland who runs the wonderful Supercolloider in Blackpool.

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What do you know? Two days to go. Brilliant Blackpool

1849_blackpool_apr10
I've been working so hard on this exhibition that's it's getting to the point now where I'm not sure which images are in the exhibition and which are not.
The final selection will not be made until hanging day tomorrow. But this one will definitely be in.
Find out how to get to FYCreatives here.
I've been helped in putting on this exhibition by Tom Ireland who runs the wonderful Supercolloider in Blackpool.
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What do you know? Two days to go. Brilliant Blackpool

1849_blackpool_apr10
I've been working so hard on this exhibition that's it's getting to the point now where I'm not sure which images are in the exhibition and which are not.
The final selection will not be made until hanging day tomorrow. But this one will definitely be in.
Find out how to get to FYCreatives here.
I've been helped in putting on this exhibition by Tom Ireland who runs the wonderful Supercolloider in Blackpool.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2011

FYCreatives exhibition three days to go

Another image from this Friday's Brilliant Blackpool exhibition.
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Don't forget the zine:

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FYCreatives exhibition three days to go

Another image from this Friday's Brilliant Blackpool exhibition.
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Don't forget the zine:

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Love_town_blackpool_cover
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Monday, August 08, 2011

Four days to go Brilliant Blackpool at FYCreatives

[gallery]One image in the show - the couple drinking tea in a cafe. Plus another image that didn't quite make it onto the walls.
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This image was taken at the Syndicate nightclub in 2010.
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Four days to go Brilliant Blackpool at FYCreatives

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One image in the show - the couple drinking tea in a cafe. Plus another image that didn't quite make it onto the walls.
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This image was taken at the Syndicate nightclub in 2010.
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Sunday, August 07, 2011

Five days to go until Brilliant Blackpool at FYC in Blackpool

Another image from my forthcoming Brilliant Blackpool exhibition at FYCreatives.
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Blackpool - where bums love to party.
Also at the exhibition you can buy the Brilliant Blackpool 'zine at the show - or online. The 'zine, a full colour A4 publication, contains extra unseen images not included in the show.
Buy it now:

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Five days to go until Brilliant Blackpool at FYC in Blackpool

Another image from my forthcoming Brilliant Blackpool exhibition at FYCreatives.
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Blackpool - where bums love to party.
Also at the exhibition you can buy the Brilliant Blackpool 'zine at the show - or online. The 'zine, a full colour A4 publication, contains extra unseen images not included in the show.
Buy it now:

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Saturday, August 06, 2011

Brilliant Blackpool at FYC in Blackpool

Images from my Brilliant Blackpool are to be exhibited in Blackpool this month.
From Friday August 12 until Wednesday Aug 31.
Eighteen images will be on show at FYCreatives (just up the road from the Syndicate nightclub for you clubbers).
Brilliant Blackpool coincides with Mass Photograpphy at the Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool, an amazing show which features a who's who of photographers Ian Berry, Alfred Gregory, Peter Marlow, Martin Parr, Tony Ray-Jones, Humphrey Spender, Chris Steele-Perkins and Homer Sykes.
While they all share the venue, the Brilliant Blackpool exhibition is exclusive to Garry Cook.
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And the countdown starts here with some of the images from the show appearing on this blog between now and the opening.
Buy the zine:

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

More from the Brilliant world of Blackpool (contractors welcome)






The more technically minded will notice an experiment in colour on these three images.

Look further down this blog to find out about more about the book Brilliant Blackpool.

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Monday, August 09, 2010

More from the Brilliant world of Blackpool (contractors welcome)



The more technically minded will notice an experiment in colour on these three images.

Look further down this blog to find out about more about the book Brilliant Blackpool.
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Thursday, August 05, 2010

Brilliant Blackpool the book flyer


The flyer says it all really. Click on the image to read the text more clearly.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Brilliant Blackpool photography book




NOTE: A special treat for my readers – this text is the first-draft introduction for my next book which is provisionally entitled Brilliant Blackpool. This image is the first draft for the promotional flyer.


About Brilliant Blackpool

Why do I take photographs in Blackpool? Do I enjoy taking photographs in Blackpool?

Like many people, whenever I visit Blackpool I take my camera. On my first few visits I took snapshots. I came away with images of the tower and of the bright, garish signs.

I began to think differently about the resort when I worked as a casual sub-editor for the local newspaper – the Blackpool Gazette - for 16 months, between May 2004 and September 2005.

The chief sub at the time, a lovely lady called Linda Chatburn, lived on the other side of Lancashire and remarked how different it was working in Blackpool because ‘the people here will talk to the paper about anything, it’s not like that in other places’.

Sometimes during my 40-minute lunch-break I would drive close to the Golden Mile in search of a chippy. In winter, I would often go to one a few streets behind the promenade amongst the many run-down shops which are best described as selling cheap tat.

I began photographing the streets of Blackpool at that time, but it was not until shooting my documentary project on the smoking ban in the summer of 2007 that I turned my focus on the town’s people.

Of course, photographing people in Blackpool does not necessarily mean you are photographing Blackpool people. The resort, though run down and nowhere near as popular as it was in the 1990s nevermind the 1970s or 1950s, still has a staggering number of visitors, even out of season.

A Premier League footballer once told me how much he loved a weekend in Blackpool. With all his money, his regular holidays in Dubai, with all the top-class hotels he stays in with his club, he still prefers to spend his free time in a slightly-soiled B&B, drinking flat beer out of plastic glasses which glow under ultraviolet lights.

What is wrong with him? What is wrong with these people who come here?

Really, I should not be asking these questions, least of all in the pages of this book I have just reproduced. But listen, I know I am not alone in thinking this. However, I also know that many others disagree with me wholeheartedly. They still come, old and young, every year. My Uncle Ted came here from Durham twice a year for 25 years. People love this place.

It can be hard to photograph people in Britain. Unless there is an obvious occasion, like a parade, people do not ordinarily want to be photographed. In Blackpool, the self-proclaimed party capital of Britain, there is always an occasion. It is always someone’s birthday party, someone’s stag-do or someone’s holiday. Sometimes it’s just a weekend break for no other reason than to get mindlessly drunk.

I am as fascinated by the resort as I am repulsed. I go there on Saturday nights when I should have better things to do.

Occasionally I get criticised for showing the resort in a bad light. The council, always eager to promote the resort, have no use for my images. I promote the wrong kind of image. All I can stress is that, like all of my work, I do not seek to mislead or misrepresent. All I do is document the things that are going on - and there is a lot going on in this town.


I choose to photograph Blackpool because I like to. Perhaps I actually like Blackpool, perhaps that’s my secret. This is not an attempt to discredit the resort, it’s an attempt to give it credit for what it is.

Garry Cook, August 2010

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