“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...
This short set of photographs looks at the debris and delight that is the River Medlock as it follows through central Manchester. Through Manchester it has been culverted extensively till it eventually flows under the canal at Castlefield Basin and eventually drains into the River Irwell....
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...
About 5 weeks ago the curator and British Red Cross Merseyside (BRCM) volunteer Adi Lerer started an online zoom art class for refugees and asylum seekers living in Liverpool, together with BRCM. We call it ‘Collecting Cultures’; each week we virtually visit a different gallery/museum...
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...
I am a 19 year old photographer based out of London and Surrey in the UK. I’m currently studying photography at university whilst trying to create unique and important projects outside of the educational environment. This project is an example of that. Dreamland was produced during...
An architecture of ever more elaborate facades and tech-enabled structure is keenly worn like jewellery by our cities. My Crowned photographs look at what architecture can be in its boldest sense – large cultural constructs of economy, politics, imagination and myth. It represents the large systems...
So the first day of lockdown, I drop my camera. It’s dead. I’m trying to process what’s happening in the World. Everything’s different and in the enormity of what’s coming, what does it matter having no camera? My phone is the lifeline now. That first...
A Fear of Small Numbers is an intimate series of black and white photographs exploring notions relating to youth within increasingly fragmented communities. By Mark Chapman www.mark-chapman.co.uk...
Forever do we (I) put so much hope into romantic moments, and what they could be. We forgot to be present and enjoy it while it was right in front of us. So now I try leave them both alone: the past as just that,...
I walked the city centre of Liverpool after dark looking for people that interested me, people that I was drawn to. I used ambient light only, encouraging them to move into more favourable lighting conditions. I did not pose them but asked them only how...
Whilst creating these images I was in a reflective mood, thinking of humanity and many of our achievements, remembering asking my grandad about the war and about the moon landing! A time when there was a sense of both tragedy and togetherness! While out on...
I live on the edge of Gateshead, where the man-made meets the rural. It’s an odd sort of landscape where country lanes run parallel to the Western Bypass, as the A1 Motorway sweeps past Tyneside’s retail parks and industrial estates. It can be a lovely...
My visual chronicle is centred around West Kirby - a town I’ve known my whole life. Recording this world event and the impact it is having on our town is important. I’ve tried to capture how this virus has affected the very fabric of our day...
In these times we seem to be in a transitional stage from one norm to the next, on hold waiting for the new dawn of post isolation. Everything continues in distorted consensual reality, nothing quite as it seems. The somewhat illusion of solidity has shifted...
I've been reflecting on a trip I took to Amsterdam last Christmas, when the whole world felt within reach. I tried to capture moments that made me pause; a young couple through the window of the Van Gogh Museum, the peaceful slumber of the usually...
I like to make sure I go on a walk outside everyday as it really helps ground me. The sounds, smells & textures of nature make me feel present and allow me to focus back on my smaller local community that I know I can...
