Environmental portraiture

Dennis looking down a fretboard to make sure it's straight.

Ukulele Dennis at the Waterloo Ukulele Fun Festival

In August 2017, the Liver Hotel in Waterloo, Liverpool, put on the Waterloo Ukulele Fun Festival – or ‘WUFF’, to go by its rather fun acronym.

The Liver is a family-friendly pub with a really great garden of decent size. It used to be a bowling green, but in recent times it’s been converted to a proper pub garden. It now comes complete with children’s play equipment and wonderfully oversized table umbrellas to shelter you in even the wettest weather.

The festival was, unsurprisingly, a day of ukulele-based music. It featured acts from individual musicians to ukulele orchestras, packing out the small stage and spilling out onto the grass. There were a few other attractions, such as henna tattoos, face painting and raffles. The place was packed and it was an utterly fun day.

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A man with a shaved head is carrying a small keyboard and is looking over his shoulder. Next to him is a man looking down at something and smiling. There are people around them as it's a music festival
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Liverpool Psych Fest: food, festival goers and musicians

Liverpool Psych Fest – or, to give it its proper name, Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia – was on in the Baltic Triangle area of Liverpool on 23 and 24 September this year.

Two friends of mine were running one of the food outlets at the festival and they asked me to come along and get some photos of them working and of some of their dishes.

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The four musicians are standing in a group, looking at the camera. Skeet is standing behind Jay and Gary and has his right hand across Jay's face

Gary Edward Jones Music: a portrait

  This was a photoshoot with Gary Edward Jones, a Liverpool-based folk musician, and three other musicians – Elfin Bow, Skeet Williams and Jay Christian – who are collaborating with Gary on a project. They needed a number of different kinds of photograph, including: Group photos of all four of them Individual photos of each person, both…