Amazing photos of Banksy’s Dismaland theme park taken by Painswick photographer Jonas Pollard, 20

The former Cirencester College pupil visited the dystopian theme park at a derelict seaside lido at Weston-super-Mare with his friends yesterday.

He was one of the lucky few to see the exhibition, after online bookings were suspended last week when the attraction's website crashed.

"I was extremely lucky to get some tickets. I literally reloaded the page after I bought some and they'd all sold out!" he said.

World-famous street-artist Banksy handpicked the 50 artists featured in the show, who come from across the world including Israel, Palestine, Syria, the US and the UK.

Visitors enter the theme park, which features work by dozens of artists, through a security check made from cardboard by Bill Barminski.

They are greeted with a view of the park and Banksy's fire-ravaged fairytale Cinderella Castle showing "how it feels to be a real princess".

Also among the exhibits are a distorted mermaid, a dilapidated fairy castle and a boat pond where all the boats are filled with models of migrants, as well as paintings and a beach ball hovering above upturned knives.

Dismaland will run twice a day from Saturday until September 27 and involve musical performances from Massive Attack, Pussy Riot and Kate Tempest.

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