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As anyone local to this truly fine city will tell you, Liverpool is a street photographer's paradise. I grew up 20 miles from Liverpool and know the city well. If you invest a little time in getting to know the city, finding its rhythm and putting in the leg-work you won't go home empty-handed. So what makes it so beguiling?
- It's a city of contrasts: rich/poor, old/new, modern/traditional, happy/sad, funny/serious, sober/drunk, formal/relaxed . . . and so on.
- The locals are 'up for it'. People are generally quite relaxed about having a camera pointed at them and I rarely encounter problems when I'm 'caught'. There is an inherent 'happiness' about Liverpool.
- Some of the architecture is stunning and it's well worth a trip for that reason alone.
- There is good scope for the urban landscape genre of street photography.
- There is a great choice of locations within the city centre: squares, shopping areas, Lime Street station, the docks, the riverside, two cathedrals, a university quarter, the Tate, the Bluecoat Gallery and about a hundred branches of Greggs (always good for a snap). I could go on and on . . .
- The Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool's super version of London's Photographers' Gallery).
- The pubs are great. Or so I'm told.