Moving home

This will be the last post on this blog - but dry those tears, the blog has just moved to www.chrisbullphotographer.com (where you will also find my portfolio) . See you there !

Bacup Slideshow

The Britannia Coco-nut Dancers of Bacup

One of my favourite photographers, Tony Ray Jones,  photographed the Coco-nut Dancers in 1968. It was great to tread in his footsteps and witness this bizarre spectacle for myself.
On Easter Saturday every year, the Britannia Coco-nut Dancers take to the streets to welcome Spring and ward off evil spirits as they dance from boundary to boundary in Bacup , Lancashire .
The coco-nut dancers' faces are blackened to disguise themselves from evil spirits and to reflect the coal mining roots of the tradition.

Portia Portraits - Model and singer Portia Victoria photographed for an article in New! Magazine

Family and friends of Sam Walker gather in Chorlton Park to release lanterns in his memory on the day he would have turned 16. Sam was killed by a car on 9 February 2003 and the driver has never come forward. Sam's mum Jackie Tokmak is pictured with a lantern .

read the full story at http://tinyurl.com/cwj4x9r

Fashion shoot for the Manchester Evening News with Cheryl Cole .... well , almost . This is her alter ego from Manchester , Charlotte Metcalfe .

It's not every day you get to meet an English World Cup winner. Here's Nobby Stiles looking mighty dapper at a charity do in Manchester.