Peculiar Portraits is a 144 page a5 hardback photo book containing Victorian style studio portraits capturing the goth and alternative subcultures at Whitby Goth Weekend (WGW).

For those who haven’t heard of Whitby Goth Weekend (WGW), it is held biannually in the North Yorkshire coastal town of Whitby, UK.  It was started in 1994 and has now grown to be one of the world’s premier Goth events.

Why Whitby? The goth and alternative culture has naturally been drawn to Whitby with its spooky gothic abbey ruins and its links to Bram Stoker. Stoker stayed in Whitby while writing the novel ‘Dracula’.