Glory of the gutter: Dougie Wallace's photos of Blackpool stag and hen dos

An expensive book of photos of very drunk people whooping it up in Blackpool is an odd thing but then wallowing in ugliness has long been photography's business

Blackpool's wildest stag and hen parties in pictures

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars, according to Oscar Wilde. Well, fine, Mr Wilde. But some of us prefer looking around the gutter, like photographer Dougie Wallace, who is also known as Glasweegie.

Not that I am calling Blackpool a gutter. But it's a bracingly real and raw theatre of British existence; on that we can agree. And in his new book, Stags, Hens and Bunnies, a collection of ripely coloured photographs of stag and hen parties in the renowned northwestern seaside city, Wallace revels in its down-to-earth thrills.

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