A Bay View was a portrait project, devised and commissioned by Oriel Colwyn in North Wales and influenced by Daniel Meadows' 'Free Photographic Omnibus' series. Daniel's seminal work was 50 years old in 2023 and Oriel Colwyn showed some of that archive and commissioned me to do this series based around that anniversary showing. Daniel toured England photographing people 1973-1974 but he never made it over to Wales, so we set up shop in an empty unit of the Bay View shopping centre and photographed the good folk of Colwyn Bay across four days, later supplementing the project with studio days at Port Eirias, the Bay Xtra Festival and Colwyn Bay Pride, and the work was shown at numerous venues around the town between 2023 and 2025. I think, across 8 days, I managed to photograph nearly 1,000 people, or should I say nearly a thousand subjects, including dogs! Massive thank you to Paul and Millie at Oriel Colwyn for all their support on this project and for coming up with the idea in the first place!
