Blackpool Illuminations

Posted on 26/10/201418/04/2021 by Yannick Dixon

Blackpool Illuminations is a world-renowned festival of light founded in 1879 (a year before Thomas Edison patented the electric light bulb) and held each autumn on the Fylde coast in Lancashire.

Stretching over six miles of Blackpool’s famous promenade, from Starr Gate to Bispham, the Illuminations are a remarkable sight to behold. VisitBlackpool once described Blackpool Illuminations as “the greatest free light show on earth” and with over 3.5 million visitors now flocking to the resort to enjoy their colourful glow they might be right. Working as a photographer in Blackpool who lives locally in nearby Lytham St Annes I have the pleasure of photographing this spectacular Lights Festival each and every year.

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Blackpool

Aerial Photographs of Blackpool

Posted on 21/04/201418/04/2021 by Yannick Dixon

Are you looking for truly breathtaking views of Blackpool and the Fylde coastline?

Unless you want to splash the cash on a helicopter, I recommend you pay a visit to the magnificent Blackpool Tower Eye and experience it’s solid-glass SkyWalk.

Yes, you may have to overcome the dizzying 300ft drop below, but believe me it’s more than worth the entry fee.

If you can’t stand heights, but still want to see the view, let me share with you these aerial photographs of Blackpool that I took from Blackpool Tower Eye.

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News

Blackpool Destination Guide

Posted on 12/02/201418/04/2021 by Yannick Dixon

Back in September 2013 I received an email from graphic designer Gemma Alderson of Visit Blackpool kindly asking to use one of my photographs from Blackpool Airshow 2010. She wanted to feature it along with some written copy about Blackpool’s annual airshow display across a double page spread in the Blackpool Destination Guide 2014.

Gemma found my photograph of the Breitling Wingwalkers on my Flickr page (if you have a Flickr account feel free to add me) and had some very kind words about my work. I’m always keen to help promote Blackpool in anyway I can (plus I’m a sucker for flattery!), so I agreed to my photograph being used in the Blackpool Destination Guide. I received my copy of the guide a couple of weeks ago and last night I finally got round to photographing it in the studio so that I can share my work with you all.

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Commission

Walls Have Voices Photography And Book

Posted on 08/09/201218/04/2021 by Yannick Dixon

Walls Have Voices is an anthology of specially commissioned new writing by local Blackpool writers that was created through a series of site-specific writing workshops exploring the ‘off the beaten track’ built heritage of the town.

The writers visited the Grundy Art Gallery, Central Library, the Grand Theatre and Layton Cemetery with their mentors Eleanor Rees and Zoe Lambert and took part in writing tasks that ignited imaginative reactions to place, explored how we can apply language to the physical environment to see it anew and how society thinks about the value of public space.

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