The big picture: a shuttered seafront at sunset

Max Miechowski’s shot of a closed-up ice‑cream parlour alludes to the precarity of seaside towns
Last summer, the photographer Max Miechowski set out to travel the east coast of England, starting in Felixstowe and heading up toward Hartlepool and beyond. Miechowski, 30, grew up a few miles outside Lincoln, and day trips and holidays were mainly to the seaside towns of Yorkshire or Norfolk, so he knew some of the places already. This picture was taken in Skegness, in the early evening