After photographing the festival for the first time last year, I returned this year to photograph Liverpool Arab Arts Festival 2017. And, yet again, it was an absolute blast.
This year, I photographed two days of the festival: Eid on the Square and the family finale day at the Palm House in Sefton Park.
On 18 March, I was lucky enough to photograph the album launch performance of Elfin Bow’s self-titled debut album at the Epstein Theatre in Liverpool.
It was a splendid show.
My girls and I love a good trip out to a museum, and our most recent trip to the Walker Art Gallery didn’t disappoint.
As part of the Being Human festival – a festival dedicated to spreading the humanities love – the Walker had a mermaid-themed day.
Having two young girls who are fans of Disney’s (slightly sanitised version of) The Little Mermaid, I thought they’d enjoy the Liverpool Players’ retelling of the classic fairytale.
The performance didn’t disappoint.
The River of Light was Liverpool’s contribution to the UK’s annual Guy Fawkes Night for 2016. A joint venture between the Liverpool and Wirral councils, it saw celebrations on both sides of the Mersey, culminating in a floating firework display in the middle of the river.
Determined not to come home with any more unplanned pets this year (following last year, when we went to a local display and ended up with two goldfish), I decided to take my two girls into town to see the River of Light.
It’s been a few years since the city’s main firework display was on in the centre of town – it’s been out at Sefton Park for a while, which is a great venue, but not so easy to get to as the city centre for many parts of Liverpool – so I was excited to see what the evening had to offer.
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.
The Liverpool Arab Arts Festival is an award-winning cultural festival, which has been running on an annual basis in Liverpool since 2002. It features a host of Arabic arts and culture, including music, movies, artists, dancers and performers. In July 2016, I had the pleasure of helping photograph the festival. I worked both Saturdays and Sundays…
November the 5th in the UK is Guy Fawkes night; the night we celebrate the foiling of the infamous Gunpowder Plot. What was the Gunpowder Plot? Briefly put, Guy Fawkes, a Catholic, was a member of a group plotting to assassinate the Protestant King James I. He was caught setting up 36 barrels…