Annie Collinge documents the weird and wonderful goths of Whitby

Date
16 July 2014

Every year thousands of gloomy-looking characters descend on Whitby, a British seaside town that’s steeped in folklore and literary heritage. Bram Stoker set parts of Dracula there, Robin Jarvis created a mysterious series of children’s books on its streets and a ruined abbey stands at the top of one of its cliffs, maintaining a physical, eerie presence on moonlit nights – and those goths just can’t get enough.They host an annual goth weekend which this year photographer Annie Collinge decided to document, stopping the black-clad revellers on the streets and in graveyards to pose for her potraits. The resulting images offer a fantastic snapshot of one of the most longstanding genres of alternative culture, though I say that with bias, as I used to be one. “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”

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Annie Collinge: Whitby Gothic

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Annie Collinge: Whitby Gothic

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Annie Collinge: Whitby Gothic

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Annie Collinge: Whitby Gothic

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Annie Collinge: Whitby Gothic

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Annie Collinge: Whitby Gothic

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Annie Collinge: Whitby Gothic

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James Cartwright

James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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