A pier is a beginning with no end, a place of possibility.

Peter found himself spending hours wandering the pier at the Norfolk coastal town of Cromer when visiting family nearby. Immersing himself in the flow, he was intrigued by the characters he saw. The kids with crabbing buckets swinging from their arms. The families of holidaymakers sitting on fold up chairs. The teen lovers. He began asking them if he could take their portrait, later printing the images by hand in darkrooms to tease out that rich, nostalgic colour palette.

Now, he’s been shooting this ongoing personal project for so long that some of the children from earlier shots reappear as young adults. The series speaks of beauty and melancholy, solitude and connection.