“Art education still baffles me, but I’m glad I trusted my gut instinct,” says photography graduate Charlie Hitchen, and so are we. It takes a certain kind of eye for a photographer to turn his lens on the iconic and perpetually bustling Coney Island fairground during its rare and near-deserted moments, and one of the things we love most about Charlie’s work is how it manages to remain surprisingly human despite being almost exclusively unpeopled. One of our It’s Nice That Graduates, not only has Charlie built a beautiful body of work during his three years at Manchester School of Art, but he’s learned what works and what doesn’t work for him. Here, he talks us through carving out his niche and the new art collective he’s starting with friends.
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