Based in South Liverpool, Wavertree Worldwide is a socially conscious programme of community events, ran by a collective of friends that wanted to bring together a love of music, fashion and art. Powered by a DIY DJ booth and a disco ball, we’re creating a new...
“You should take photos of want you want. That’s punk!” Joe Strummer I’ve been in a love affair with punk since my teens. The music, the fashion, the ethos and ideology. The spirit of rebellion and spontaneity, excess and liberty. The stripped back, DIY philosophy. ...
When we started Bido Lito! in May 2010, the intention was that the artists would take centre stage: we weren’t going to be bogged down in historical anecdotes and mining the myth or Liverpool music heritage, but create a platform where the here and now...
My day job is a teacher, however on March 23rd this temporarily came to an end. A job that requires personal interaction with peers and my students was removed. As an insulin dependent diabetic I am considered vulnerable as society deals with the grip of...
This series documents a domestic diary during lockdown in a shared rented house, a little rough around the edges, but no less home. For myself, this strange space in time has presented the chance to take stock of relationships, both human, with my immediate surroundings...
Living with a life threatening, chronic illness presents many daily challenges, both mental and physical. It also comes with a lot of ignorance and judgement from people. I have been advocating for, and documenting my journey with type 1 diabetes since I was diagnosed in...
Within this photo story I wanted to show the difficulty of social isolation and the connection that is built through sharing photos and memories with one another. I took these photos whilst visiting my grandparents, with my brother, to drop off their shopping. They are...
On daily walks in Stromness I travel further than you might think. Underfoot I notice the Lake Orcadie landscapes imprinted within each flagstone. - Rebecca Marr, Photographer, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland A walk through time / Postcards from Lake Orcadie Dr Antonia Thomas, Archaeologist These stones are solid now, but they...
I am a creative. It is what I am, what I do. I need to write, draw, make, image or see. I don’t like to be pigeonholed into a box, as a poet, an author, a painter or a photographer – but I must create,...
Geek Culture aims to explore the culture to break through the pre-conceived thoughts people have about this culture. The project also looks at how a community can give sense of ‘home’ for people. The project started as one of my second-year university assignment, How We Are....
This series of photographs were taken during my two month solo trip to Canada when I was twenty-four. They mark a time when I truly experienced freedom; to speak to whoever I wanted, either out of necessity, for travelling aid or genuine intrigue. These images...
“Home is where the heart is, buried in my chest, beside bone and lung, beneath tender breast” Home has been an uncertain factor throughout my life, one that hasn't stood still but has danced too and fro. My adult life has been a cycle of escape...
The work I am currently making is in response to being in isolation within my flat, on my own during the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020. My previous projects have investigated the power of light to transform the everyday, and this thread continues in the images...
These images of domesticity are part of an ongoing autobiographical series, Raising Small Human Creatures, which documents the challenges inherent in the lives of many mothers. The images also chronicle the theatre of everyday childhood and all its accompanying emotions, following the peaks and troughs...
As the world combats with an invisible enemy, many of our lives have come to a standstill now. A month ago our lives were pretty foreseeable with simple daily conventional work that all of us were looking forward to. The coronavirus pandemic has changed the...
