Reflections on ‘Ethics of Portrait Photography – A Transatlantic View’ by Eli Regan

18th May. Victoria Gallery. Leggate Theatre. A fantastically photogenic venue for a Photography discussion. In collaboration, Writing on the Wall Festival and LOOK/15 bring us ‘Ethics of Portrait Photography – A Transatlantic View’. Emma Smith, director of LOOK/15 concedes the title is a slight misnomer and renames it ‘Ethics of Portrait & Urban Photography.’ Onto […]

VESTA: Είμαι άνθρωπος – A Fearless Response

I spent the latter half of my teenage years, and the beginning of my twenties, scouring vibrant nightclubs on weekly expeditions looking closely at how I identified with my own gender and surrounded [myself] by people exploring theirs. For a heterosexual female – to put a label on it – working as a drag queen […]

Photo crowd competition winners

Photocrowd set out with a simple aim: to create a place on the web where photographers, whether it’s their hobby, their job, or somewhere in-between, can meet, enjoy photography and get motivated to shoot regularly. For LOOK/15, Photocrowd ran a competition called “Your Important Place”. This idea was generated by a film we screened called […]

BRYN DAVIES: NORYANGJIN FISHERIES WHOLESALE MARKET: PART 3 OF 3

DINNER(18:00-24:00) Returning at the rush-hour-end of the average working day for those outside, a herd of people shuffle through Noryangjin metro station. Nothing unusual for a rush hour it seems, until you see much of the traffic is being directed away from the metro station. A bridge above directs a migrating stream of business men […]

Review Tony Mallon ‘Homeless’ by Eli Regan

It’s not often you stumble into a free piece of Art. The single word ‘homeless’ speaks to me among the many leaflets piled up in a dishevelled manner in bookshop News from Nowhere and I open the newspaper to discover Liverpool artist Tony Mallon’s enthrallingly poetic photographic document of Merseyside hostels. The tradition of photographing […]

LOUIS QUAIL: IN SEARCH OF THE IMPERFECT PICTURE

Louis Quail is a photojournalist and arts photographer whose projects are receiving wide critical interest. LOOK met Louis Quail in 2014 and soon commissioned him to compose an essay. As the festival drew closer, his work Desk Job was selected to feature in Open 1 (Open Eye Gallery, 16 May-23 Aug 15), whilst further exchanges […]

BRYN DAVIES: NORYANGJIN FISHERIES WHOLESALE MARKET: PART 2 OF 3

OFFICE HOURS (06:00 – 18:00) It seems odd, in a damp and cold warehouse, that the unofficial uniform tends to consist of a bulky fluorescent soft shell with brand and colour left to personal choice, a vibrant red rubber apron and bright pink marigolds. It takes character and a dry sense of humour to get away […]

Look/17 Liverpool International Photography Festival

Cities of Exchange: Liverpool / Hong Kong | 7th April – 14th May 2017