I decided to make an offering of skulls to you, dear reader, for no other reason than I’m a head-hunter. I collect heads as trophies of my photographic process. It’s anthropological. In all honesty I don’t like the term ‘street photography’. It sounds artsy and photography isn’t art. I see myself as an anthropologist that uses a camera to study humans in their “natural” environments. And the city and its streets just happen to be the ecosystem in which humans now largely live.
The Celts believed the head was where a person’s soul was located. And like those pagan head-hunters, the photographer embalms his subject through a symbolic process of objectification. I really enjoy this style of photography because it feels akin to hunting. All these images were taken by me in the last month and a half in Liverpool City Centre. There is a lot more of my photography work over on my Instagram. But here on Substack is where I’ll be turning my B&W photography into photo essays and larger bodies of work with more of a narrative arch.
For now, here are 20 faces:
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