This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. The first of the posts in this series was of a council building in Manchester. I always thought I should give then and now photographs a go. However what I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.
I first visited Brighton in the 1980s when as a family we would sail over to France. Sometimes we would sail from Ramsgate to Calais (or Boulgone), but if we were on our way to Normandy, we would sail from Brighton, arriving in Dieppe, Fecamp, or Le Harve.
I also made a trip there for a JISC programmes meeting in July 2004. Then I had stayed at The Grand Hotel.
This photograph from July 2004 was taken with a Sony Cybershot digital camera.
So, over twenty years later, I took a new photograph with an iPhone 13 in June 2025.
I didn’t quite catch the same perspective.