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Michael Bennett looks back on his seaside photographs, buried away and forgotten for nearly 40 years, that caused a stir before their first exhibition.
In 1979, a newly reopened Llandudno gallery commissioned him for an exhibition depicting north Wales coastal towns. I was asked to capture the melancholy of seaside resorts out of season, he says.
image copyrightMichael Bennett
image copyrightMichael Bennett
But when he delivered the project, Bennett was surprised to find the gallery responded negatively to the images. The gallery commissioner almost certainly expected a romanticised impression of the coast, he says. To me, this wouldn t have been honest - I felt I needed to show exactly how it was.