In 1976 aged nineteen and a student at Exeter College of Art Iain McKell got a summer job on Weymouth seafront photographing holidaymakers. It was a wonderful opportunity for him to both earn a living and carry out a project exploring the life of the seaside photographer. As well as holidaymakers he photographed his friends his family and local people from the town and in the evening the disco bars fairgrounds and caravan parks of the town. Private Reality is about youth culture and being a young man in the 1970s.

Published by Dewy Lewis, 2020