1980s

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Warmth, excess, fun and surreal humour.” An illustrious photography career found him shooting for Vogue, but for Barry Lewis Blackpool proved a continuous draw. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Year after year he returned with his camera and the resulting body of work – brought together bursting with colour and life – bristles with a familiar friction between wholesome family daytime fun and an eccentric and hedonistic nightlife. In a series of two articles, he tells Claire Walmsley Griffiths why the town became a place to store his best memories.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="30876" img_size="large" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I still love the seaside – those earliest memories are still released…