Forever blowing bubbles: summer beach days – in pictures

For Hackney-based photographer Emily Stein, the carefree days of youth need not be forgotten when we grow up. Her latest project, Bubblegum, features photographs of teenagers chewing, well, bubblegum. “What I wanted to do was capture the feeling of growing up, and one of the most free places was on the beach during the summer,” she says. “Part of that is all the pastel colours of the bubblegum, the sand and the sun.” Stein photographed friends from around the world: most