Whitby Abbey at sunset, 1984 Size:30.0 cm x 40.0 cm, 11.8 inches x 15.7 inches Delivered to your door

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I wrapped my camera in a plastic bag and got among the crowds

documenting the activities of rural communities with the then Countryside Commission

He is hanging upside down doing stomach crunches as part of his warm-up

the Guardian photographer Sean Smith covered a protest outside Islington town hall

Whitby Abbey at sunset, 1984 Size:30.0 cm x 40.0 cm, 11.8 inches x 15.7 inches Delivered to your doorThe dramatic gothic ruins of Whitby Abbey are captured here at sunset by the Guardian photographer Denis Thorpe. The still glowing sky illuminates the empty windows of the abbey church and is reflected along with the building, in sharp focus in the small, still pond in the foreground. The dusk, the silhouetted landscape and the lights on the walls lend the 13th century abbey an eerie atmosphere you can see why it inspired Bram Stoker, the author of