Dreamland

2017
Margate, United Kingdom

On the eastern tip of Kent, in England, Margate sits—a seaside town atop white chalk cliffs, similar to those of Dover. It’s a place imbued with its past. Histories present themselves in rundown shop windows and graffitied boardwalks. Each street is a reminder of a town once saturated with traveling circuses and young families escaping from the city in search of a dreamland—a feeling, a place. In Margate, Dreamland is also the name of an amusement park. It is still standing, but vacant, fenced off, and echoing of the grandeur it had in the early 1900s.