10 Up-And-Coming Contemporary Photographers From Liverpool

Photographer Pete Carr lives and breathes Liverpool – its people, its places and its events. This passion helps encapsulate Liverpool’s staggering, towering architecture – whether it be a glittering city skyline or a multi-dimensional portrait of modern builds.

Matt Thomas’ portrait work shows Liverpool locals in their natural habitat – his portraits look comfortable, yet revealing as we are welcomed into this new environment. Even though the background is just as important to the narrative, the focal point of these images is always the portrait and their story to tell.

Mark Mcnulty’s portraits are vivid and animated – capturing each bright colour to create whimsical, innocent and almost child-like images. His Rocketships and Windmills series, created and published in 2005, is a prime example of this as Crazy Golf courses are transformed into pop art pieces.

Michael Kirkham dabbles in many photography styles – from music and events, weddings, architecture and landscape and finally contemporary, nostalgic pieces. Urban Goals harks back to lost youth across the UK, highlighting the differences in social class through derelict parks and makeshift football goal posts.

A master of fine art, film, illustration and of course photography, Jazamin Sinclair pulls every note of colour forward and takes every natural motion into account. Her musical photography contains an impressive repertoire, while every piece of portrait work is as unique as its subject.

Formerly a newspaper photographer, Craig Easton has perfected both portrait and landscape photography. His minimalist lake images are stripped back to mere mirrored lines, with gusts of sand softening these lines in places and creating motion during this freeze in time.

Minimalist, yet stylish. Anthony Lee’s blog The Alps combines slick men’s fashion with editorial photography, both intertwining to create images with personality. ‘Light’ is a kaleidoscope of neon, brought to life through long exposure, while ‘Architecture’ contains a strong sense of control over shadows and corners, breaking the everyday building down to abstract forms. As for the fashion, each look stands out through sharp colour and clever editing, including a floating subject.

Tadhg Devlin is the brain behind the striking series ‘Life Beyond Diagnosis’ – working closely with the Merseyside-based dementia network. ‘Life Beyond Diagnosis’ attempts to break the stigma and highlight the daily struggles of those with the disease, featuring real sufferers in world of fragmented shapes and looming shadows that break apart before your eyes.

A recent graduate, Stephanie Fawcett has created ‘My Life Changes When’, physically presenting the hidden physical and emotional struggles people face through a complex jigsaw of facial features. 120 images and 25 subjects make up this series, with each section a glimpse into each individual’s life, young and old, innocent or weathered.

This urban explorer has Merseyside in the palm of his hands, manipulating the city by enhancing both natural and unnatural light sources to create glowing urban photography – even if that means scaling Liverpool’s architecture to give his images an edge. Smith mainly showcases his work on Instagram – a great way to track his progress and follow him as he climbs the highest heights in Liverpool.

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