This past week has been pretty awesome on the Fylde coast, we’ve had Lytham Festival with all sorts and everything in music and we’ve had the Punk Rebellion at the Winter Gardens followed by the airshow..
and the town has been filled with the weird and wonderful 
The best thing for me is it gives me the chance to watch and try to capture the British public at their best…eagerly anticipating the aircraft at the airshow and
being prepared for the probability of wind, rain and blinding sunlight…
sometimes the waiting seems far too long and hunger and thirst need to be satisfied in the quickest sweetest way
but still the waiting seems too long and the alternatives of finding somewhere to climb for a better view
or somewhere to see how high up we are and “where did the sea go”? prove to be the only way of filling time while waiting for the arrows…
however the British public are prepared for everything in the summer…and some times the summer surprises us and the sun does actually appear.
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Dawn Mander, a Blackpool-based self taught photographer, exhibited worldwide,notably USA, Australia, Canada, Hamburg, Moscow Italy and U.K. and published internationally both in print and online. Dawn runs street photography walks in her hometown of Blackpool and gives talks at local colleges, schools and photography groups.
In 2018 Dawn was nominated for the RPS Hundred Heroines campaign celebrating women in photography and in 2019 exhibited with over 80 female photographers in the
RPS 'Representation on the Line:(Un)framing our Identities' held in Chelsea, Doncaster and Blackpool. For the latter she also executed the roles of organiser and co-curator.
Dawn continues to work on her #DocumentingBlackpool & #PortraitofBlackpool series and is currently creating and co-curating exhibitions and community art projects at HIVE Blackpool.
2021 - Format Mass Isolation Project. The Peoples Picture at Quad in Derby
https://thepeoplespicture.com/massisolationformat
2021 - Double Trouble Festival, Women in Street/ Unexposed Collective exhibition at Bondi Beach and Brisbane Australia.
2020/21 Large Scale Images printed and exhibited in the HIVEArts Blackpool Tramstop Takeover.
2020 - Rankin 2020 book contributor
2020 - Grundy Art Gallery Blackpool contributor fro #worktownghosttown online documentary series, exploring the effects of pandemic and Covid lockdown on Blackpool.
2019 - RPS Chelsea, Doncaster and Blackpool
2019 - Women in Street Double Trouble collective exhibition in San Fransisco USA.
2019 - Works shown at Millepiani collective exhibitions In Rome Italy.
2019 - Stills photographer for Farrena Films - The Other Side with Valerie Hope.
2019 - Promotional images shown at Grauman's Chinese Theatre Los Angeles, California USA
2019 - HotBed Press 20/20 print collective shown at Cube in Moscow. part of the Arrested ReDevelopment Collective Blackpool.
2019 - Publicity shots for Virgin Trains promoting travel to Blackpool.
2018 - exhibited and sold works at Manchester Art Fair.
2018 - Seaside Special Postcards from the Edge. Book Cover pub: BlueMoose Books
2018 - works exhibited at Hebden Bridge Art Fair
2015-2017. Local exhibitions in Blackpool: HIVE Blackpool, The Grundy Art Gallery,
The Grand Theatre, It's A Gallery, Shaws, The Solaris Centre, The Galleon, Barista.
Publications:
2020 - Rankin 2020
June 2015 - BLACK+WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY Magazine.
July 2015 - BLACK+WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY Magazine.
November 2016 - BLACK+WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY Magazine
2017 - The Guardian
2016 - The Guardian
2016 - Lancashire Life.
2015 - World Street Photography Book.
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or somewhere to see how high up we are and “where did the sea go”? prove to be the only way of filling time while waiting for the arrows…
Dawn Mander 
i doubt there’d be scenes like this anywhere else. One image in particular made me burst out laughing but tact prevents me from identifying which one!
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I can imagine…only sons go out with their mothers dressed like that! 😉
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Wonderful So typically Blackpool. Beautiful observations.
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thanks Sheila…it’s an easy place to get good shots cause its full of the weird and wonderful 🙂
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Thanks, Dawn – I had not at all deliberately chosen the weekend to be away from Thursday (in Shrewsbury) and Friday/Saturday/Sunday in London for various Poetry events.
I love both Rebellion and The Air Show, and your photos make up for my not being here.
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thanks Christo xx
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Love the “Yawning Man” – my life feels like that all the time.
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yes mine too, thanks Bill 🙂
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