Walk along the promenade near Blackpool’s Central Pier and you’re likely to encounter a living statue, one of a number of street performers providing light entertainment for the tourists.
Blackpool is synonymous with providing popular entertainment for the masses, but I want to explore what is available on street level (there is more to the town’s ‘pleasure identity’ than Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Blackpool Tower.
This location around Central Pier is a popular hot spot for local street vendors, performers and beggars as there are usually many passers-by along the promenade. I came across this living statue after I’d had a look around central pier and thought he made for an interesting photograph.
After I shot a few candid photographs from across the street, the living statue noticed me, but once I had been spotted, I crossed over to put a couple pounds in his box to say thanks for letting me take his picture. He posed for a few photographs, but my favourite is this image taken before I was noticed.
Blackpool Living Statue Photography Print
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One More Thing…
When I redesigned my photography website back in 2014 I thought it’d be a nice surprise to place never-before-seen photographs into my old blog posts for people just like you to find.
The living statue is one of the earlier photographs from my Blackpool: An Unimagined Space? series and so I went back into my photography archives to find an extra photograph to share with you.
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