The Hove Beach Hut Portraits Project

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18 BRAND NEW huts were recently built and opened in July 2010. These have been photographed and added to this gallery along with some updated/repainted earlier huts. A full set of the NEW huts is on permanent display on three massive canvases in Pizza Express, Church Road, Hove.

This Gallery features Photographs initially taken over three sunny days in February 2010 and show EVERY beach hut in Hove, Sussex at that time! It was updated in September 2010 to show the new huts that had just been built. The first photograph shows every hut in one image and then the next six show two variations of the huts split into a triptych of three photographs. The following image shows the final triptych as a canvas on display in the Sanctuary Cafe, Hove. The latest very large canvas triptych showing all of the huts is now on permanent display in Pizza Express, Church Road, Hove.

The 470+ images that follow those are of ALL of the huts and then there are other photographs (with more being added regularly) showing some of the huts in their rows/context. The huts begin with number 3 next to the Lawns Cafe in Hove in the East and end with hut number 459 which is next to Hove Lagoon to the West, over a mile away from the first one.

The individual hut photographs have all been sized to fit the same square format which meant that, depending on the size of the hut, that some have wider borders than others. The borders are made in the colours of each individual hut door and then the number of that hut has been printed below each one. The whole project took almost a month of full time work and Tony's eyes were virtually hut-shaped by the end of it all!

Prints and canvases of any individual hut can be made to order - usually within a week - and can be as large as four feet/1.3m high!

What follows is one of Tony's Press Releases which gives more information about the beach huts in Hove. This release has not been updated to include the fact that Tony has now photographed the new huts. For more information just contact Tony using the email address at the end.

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The Hove Beach Hut Portraits Project by Tony Bowall

It's taken many long days and nights, but Hove photographer Tony Bowall, FRPS, has completed his latest and possibly greatest project – the epic Hove Beach Huts Portraits. Earlier this year Tony photographed each and every one of the iconic, colourful and much-loved Hove beach huts. That's an awful lot of huts (around 460 in total).

And now, as part of the Brighton Festival, Tony's open house, The Happy House, in Third Avenue Hove premiered the entire project in the form of a 7ft long triple canvas. Beach hut lovers everywhere can also view Tony's Hove Beach Huts Portraits on the ground floor of Hove’s Sanctuary Café where he is displaying an even larger different triple-canvas variation of the project.

The Hove beach huts start next to the Lawns Café opposite Palmeira Square. The first is number three (there is no number one), with the last – number 441 – found by Hove Lagoon. Altogether, there are approximately 460 huts.

Tony – who was awarded the highest distinction by the Royal Photographic Society only last year – has been running his highly successful Happy House open house for six years as part of the Brighton and Hove Artists' Open House festival. Thousands of visitors have passed through Tony's doors during festival time, many of whom come to see his popular Beach Huts in the Snow series of photographs – images that continue to be highly popular in Hove and far beyond – as well as many more of his popular local images. One of the Beach Huts in the Snow images was indeed featured in the Guardian and Observer newspapers, with others seen in most local publications.

Future plans for the Hove Beach Huts Portraits project include mounting each individual image of each hut in a CD case and displaying them as if in a CD shop (or all fixed to a wall if Tony can find a wall large enough – offers welcome from anyone with a large gallery space).

Tony is also planning to get creative during the next phase of the project, and plans a series of canvases which will, among other things, spell out the word HOVE in beach hut door colours.

So why photograph the beach huts in their entirety? Well Tony is often asked if he has a specific number beach hut by hut owners, and now he has. Owners who want individual portraits of their huts from the collection can buy just that as a large canvas or a small print – all at very reasonable prices.

Tony also has images of many of the huts in context (that is, among their neighbouring huts). And if beach hut owners would like to commission a portrait of themselves in their beach hut, Tony charges just £50 for a photo session – which includes a print made in Tony's studio.

For more information and/or to visit Tony who always welcomes visitors in his Third Avenue Studio, call 01273 325653 www.tonybowallphotography.com or www.happyartists.co.uk

Email: tony@tonybowallphotography.com

Date: 06/11/10

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The Hove Beach Hut Portraits Project in One Image - Second (Latest) Edition

Available as a Greetings Card. This image was used for a double page feature about Tony in the 2011 Brighton Festival Edition of 'Arty' Magazine!

The Beach Hut Portraits Project - Triptych - Three Canvases - Exhibited at the Sanctuary Cafe, Hove

First Edition of the Project - February 2010

The Hove Beach Hut Portraits Project in one Image!

First Edition of the Project - February 2010

A different Canvas Triptych of all of the Huts displayed in 'Lily & Harold', Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex,

Lily and Harold also display and sell Tony's prints and his entire range of Greetings Cards

Left Hand Image of Three - The Beach Hut Portraits Project

First Edition of the Project - February 2010

Middle Image of Three - The Beach Hut Portraits Project

First Edition of the Project - February 2010

Right Hand Image of Three - The Beach Hut Portraits Project

First Edition of the Project - February 2010

Left Side of Second Triptych

Another variation of a triptych of every hut - First Edition

Centre Image of Second Triptych

Another variation of a triptych of every hut - First Edition

Right Side of Second Triptych

Beach Hut 3 - The First Beach Hut in Hove! By The Lawns Cafe

Beach Hut 4

Beach Huts 3 and 4 - a double hut and store for the Lawns Cafe

Beach Hut 5

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Beach Hut 55 is not there!

Where there should be a hut, i.e. if the number exists but the hut does not, I have shown the gap - whether a wide space or tiny opening - where the hut should be/was/will be!

Beach Hut 56

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Beach Hut 64 is not there!

Where there should be a hut, i.e. if the number exists but the hut does not, I have shown the gap - whether a wide space or tiny opening - where the hut should be/was/will be!

Beach Hut 65

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Beach Hut 66A

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Beach Hut 144 is not there!

Where there should be a hut, i.e. if the number exists but the hut does not, I have shown the gap - whether a wide space or tiny opening - where the hut should be/was/will be!

Beach Hut 145

Beach Hut 146

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Beach Hut 168 is not there!

Where there should be a hut, i.e. if the number exists but the hut does not, I have shown the gap - whether a wide space or tiny opening - where the hut should be/was/will be!

Beach Hut 169

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Beach Hut 185 - 1

Beach Hut 185 - 2

The Day after I took the last photo. Beach Huts are very fragile and most damage is caused by the sea and wind.

Beach Hut 186

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Beach Hut 197 - 1

Beach Hut 197 - 2

The Day after I took the last photo. Beach Huts are very fragile and most damage is caused by the sea and wind.

Beach Hut 197 - 3

Soon aftet I took the last photo and already under repair.

Beach Hut 198

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Beach Hut 209 is not there!

Where there should be a hut, i.e. if the number exists but the hut does not, I have shown the gap - whether a wide space or tiny opening - where the hut should be/was/will be!

Beach Hut 210

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Beach Hut 216 is not there!

Where there should be a hut, i.e. if the number exists but the hut does not, I have shown the gap - whether a wide space or tiny opening - where the hut should be/was/will be!

Beach Hut 217

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Beach Hut 236 is not there!

Where there should be a hut, i.e. if the number exists but the hut does not, I have shown the gap - whether a wide space or tiny opening - where the hut should be/was/will be!

Beach Hut 237

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Beach Hut 244 is not there!

Where there should be a hut, i.e. if the number exists but the hut does not, I have shown the gap - whether a wide space or tiny opening - where the hut should be/was/will be!

Beach Hut 245 is not there!

Where there should be a hut, i.e. if the number exists but the hut does not, I have shown the gap - whether a wide space or tiny opening - where the hut should be/was/will be!

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Beach Hut 255 is not there!

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Beach Hut 258 is not there!

Where there should be a hut, i.e. if the number exists but the hut does not, I have shown the gap - whether a wide space or tiny opening - where the hut should be/was/will be!

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Beach Hut 282 is not there!

Where there should be a hut, i.e. if the number exists but the hut does not, I have shown the gap - whether a wide space or tiny opening - where the hut should be/was/will be!

Beach Hut 283

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Beach Hut 313 is not there!

Where there should be a hut, i.e. if the number exists but the hut does not, I have shown the gap - whether a wide space or tiny opening - where the hut should be/was/will be!

Beach Hut 314

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Beach Hut 334 is not there!

As you can see there are lots of hut 335 (A-D) so 334 must have got lost! Another image has temporarily been 'borrowed' to fit this space.

Beach Hut 335

Beach Hut 335A

Beach Hut 335B

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Beach Hut 335D

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Beach Hut 443

The First of the New Huts built in July 2010. As you can see hardly any of the doors on the huts that follow have been personalised by their owners - yet!

Beach Hut 444

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Beach Hut 459

Hove Sweet Hove!

Rows of Beach Huts by Hove Lagoon - from the back

Rows of Beach Huts - 1

Rows of Beach Huts -2

Rows of Beach Huts - 3

Rows of Beach Huts - 4

Beach Huts From the Back - 1

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Beach Huts from the Back - 3

Beach Huts from the Back - 4

Beach Huts from the Back - 5

Triple Hut (before Hut 153)

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