Everyone is Moving – Your Journeys, Your Neighbourhoods @ Atrium Space
4 June - 30 June 2024
Open Eye Gallery Atrium Space and Digital Window Gallery
Exhibition launch and celebration event: 4 June, 5 – 7 pm / RSVP
Open Eye Gallery and Liverpool Architecture Festival 2024 have partnered to facilitate a free-to-enter photography competition. Photographers of all abilities and backgrounds entered the free competition to interpret ‘Everyone is Moving – Your Journeys, Your Neighbourhoods’ using any medium from mobile phone cameras to DSLR and film, to capture the unique character of the diverse neighbourhoods of the Liverpool City Region, focusing on architecture and the built environment.
The overall winner is Sam Jones with the photographic project titled ‘The Streets of Liverpool’.
‘The Streets of Liverpool’ is a project born from my desire to create compelling and lasting images of the city and how it looks today for the generations to come. My aim is to document the everyday scenes and stories unique to those particular areas (of the city) and create visual time capsules for the years to come. Turning my camera away from the glamour of Liverpool’s historic town centre, I wanted to photograph the areas deep within the community, which I would describe as proper Liverpool.
The parts of Liverpool I choose to photograph are for me very under imagined parts of the city but contain more of Liverpool’s story and are filled with the character, warmth and undeniable spirit so closely associated with my hometown. It has always been so compelling for me to see how the people of these communities communicate their feelings through the streets they call home; shaping their neighbourhoods through a shared sense of culture, political ideologies, arts and everyday struggles. So many of the crumbling buildings and structures at the focal point of my images are tragically emblematic of the hardships felt by so many in the city. Although I hope these images have a powerful impact on the viewer of today, it is their importance in the future, as the landscape of Liverpool grows and alters that is the driving force behind this project.’ – Sam Jones
The 2nd place was awarded to Daniel Frost with the photographic project titled ‘What we’ve been left with’ and the 3rd place Gary Williams Smith with the photographic project titled, ‘Life in the gaps’. Amy Sanderson, with the project titled ‘Widnes Town Centre’, and Benard Piercy were awarded honourable mentions.
The winning and honourable mentions entries will be exhibited in Open Eye Gallery’s covered atrium space and Digital Window Gallery.
The judging panel consisted of Kudzai (EDI Expert, Activist, Architectural Designer, Educator & former LAF Committee Member), and Declan Connolly (Talent and Design Coordinator, Open Eye Gallery) and Gerry Proctor, MBE (Chair of Engage Liverpool CIC). The submissions were judged blindly (without any entrant details) on the criteria of the; impact of the sequence and the story it tells, the composition of the frames and overall presentation, the creativity and style in response to the brief, how successful the photographs represent the theme of ‘Neighbourhoods’, how successful the theme of ‘Neighbourhoods’ relates to architecture and the built environment and how successful the photographs capture the unique and diverse neighbourhood of the Liverpool City Region.
Liverpool Architecture Festival 2024 (#LAF24) returns this June 1-30th, with over 100 free-to-attend events planned throughout the Liverpool City Region run by Liverpool Architecture Foundation CIC. Building on previous successes, the third iteration spreads its reach throughout Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool Sefton, St. Helens and Wirral. The theme ‘Neighbourhood’ is at the centre of all activities to encourage people to interact with their local built environment.
Image: Sam Jones
Open Eye Gallery Atrium Space and Digital Window Gallery
Exhibition launch and celebration event: 4 June, 5 – 7 pm / RSVP
Open Eye Gallery and Liverpool Architecture Festival 2024 have partnered to facilitate a free-to-enter photography competition. Photographers of all abilities and backgrounds entered the free competition to interpret ‘Everyone is Moving – Your Journeys, Your Neighbourhoods’ using any medium from mobile phone cameras to DSLR and film, to capture the unique character of the diverse neighbourhoods of the Liverpool City Region, focusing on architecture and the built environment.
The overall winner is Sam Jones with the photographic project titled ‘The Streets of Liverpool’.
‘The Streets of Liverpool’ is a project born from my desire to create compelling and lasting images of the city and how it looks today for the generations to come. My aim is to document the everyday scenes and stories unique to those particular areas (of the city) and create visual time capsules for the years to come. Turning my camera away from the glamour of Liverpool’s historic town centre, I wanted to photograph the areas deep within the community, which I would describe as proper Liverpool.
The parts of Liverpool I choose to photograph are for me very under imagined parts of the city but contain more of Liverpool’s story and are filled with the character, warmth and undeniable spirit so closely associated with my hometown. It has always been so compelling for me to see how the people of these communities communicate their feelings through the streets they call home; shaping their neighbourhoods through a shared sense of culture, political ideologies, arts and everyday struggles. So many of the crumbling buildings and structures at the focal point of my images are tragically emblematic of the hardships felt by so many in the city. Although I hope these images have a powerful impact on the viewer of today, it is their importance in the future, as the landscape of Liverpool grows and alters that is the driving force behind this project.’ – Sam Jones
The 2nd place was awarded to Daniel Frost with the photographic project titled ‘What we’ve been left with’ and the 3rd place Gary Williams Smith with the photographic project titled, ‘Life in the gaps’. Amy Sanderson, with the project titled ‘Widnes Town Centre’, and Benard Piercy were awarded honourable mentions.
The winning and honourable mentions entries will be exhibited in Open Eye Gallery’s covered atrium space and Digital Window Gallery.
The judging panel consisted of Kudzai (EDI Expert, Activist, Architectural Designer, Educator & former LAF Committee Member), and Declan Connolly (Talent and Design Coordinator, Open Eye Gallery) and Gerry Proctor, MBE (Chair of Engage Liverpool CIC). The submissions were judged blindly (without any entrant details) on the criteria of the; impact of the sequence and the story it tells, the composition of the frames and overall presentation, the creativity and style in response to the brief, how successful the photographs represent the theme of ‘Neighbourhoods’, how successful the theme of ‘Neighbourhoods’ relates to architecture and the built environment and how successful the photographs capture the unique and diverse neighbourhood of the Liverpool City Region.
Liverpool Architecture Festival 2024 (#LAF24) returns this June 1-30th, with over 100 free-to-attend events planned throughout the Liverpool City Region run by Liverpool Architecture Foundation CIC. Building on previous successes, the third iteration spreads its reach throughout Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool Sefton, St. Helens and Wirral. The theme ‘Neighbourhood’ is at the centre of all activities to encourage people to interact with their local built environment.
Image: Sam Jones
