For Liverpool photographer Jane MacNeil, papping celebs, studio shoots and catwalks fail to capture the city she knows. Maybe that's why she's producing some of our city's most exciting photography right now...
You know all those times when you curse, quietly, to yourself ‘I wish I had a camera on me now’? Well, chances are, Jane MacNeil has.
For MacNeil, the streets and public spaces of the city are such a fertile a photographic hunting ground that any excursion has the potential to boost her portfolio. As sometime chroniclers of the city’s less celebrated side, SevenStreets finds MacNeil’s work a far more satisfying, and honest, snapshot of where we’re at (and how we got there) than those hideous, digitally manipulated portraits they try to hawk you in the Met Quarter.Real life, as we all know, is far grittier – and fare more interesting – than photoshop and filters. And MacNeil’s funny, touching, cringe-inducing project ‘Streets of Liverpool’ captures it all. So, SevenStreets wonders, are you ready for your close up?
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