Pier Closing Time showcases Michael Bennett’s 1979 photographic journey through North Wales. Mournful of a lost world, always ironic, this is a bitter-sweet portrait of seaside resorts in and out of season.
Michael Bennett has worked for The Times, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The BBC, The Financial Times, BBC World Service, New Society, and The New Statesman, and had a long association with the satirical magazine Private Eye.
A number of Bennett’s portraits of prominent British people commissioned by The Independent are in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
London’s Victoria & Albert Museum acquired the complete Family project, adding to the V&A’s collection of Bennett’s work, which includes other pictures (Platelayer on Holyhead main line, 1979) from the Welsh project seen in Pier Closing Time.
You can listen to Michael Bennett speaking about the work, and an exhibition that didn’t happen with the commissioning gallery in North Wales, with Ffoton’s Brian Carroll on the Offline Journal Newsletter
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