George Wilson

After completing the Documentary Photography course at Newport, then led by David Hurn, George Wilson moved to Kent and took a temporary job as a bingo caller at Cain’s Amusement Arcade on the Herne Bay seafront. Across the 1981 and 1982 seasons, he photographed the staff, regulars and summer visitors around him.

Working at Cain’s placed Wilson within the daily life of the arcade. His photographs record it as both a workplace and a social space, moving between prize bingo, fruit machines and the groups of people who gathered around them.

Read the full feature: Cain’s Amusement Arcade, Herne Bay, 1981–82.