Commonplace is a photographic magazine celebrating modernist buildings and places across Britain and Ireland.
Born from a collaboration between the modernist and Uhm! Publishing, it explores the in-between places and small sites that lie beyond the mainstream modernist canon—those commonplaces that deserve a second look.
In Issue Two, Stephen Marland focuses his lens on the back streets of Blackpool and the variety of typefaces, colours and sometimes plain bonkers shop fronts that can be found there. With a short introduction from Helen Furnivall who grew up in Blackpool and knows these streets well.
Photographer: Stephen Marland
Publisher: The Modernist Society & Uhm!
Format: Paperback/Magazine
Pages: 32
Publication Date: December 2025