BID COMPANY
Liverpool BID Company is a not-for-profit organisation working on behalf of more than 800 levy-paying businesses. Its work focuses on activating public space, supporting culture, and strengthening the city’s social and economic life.
Event photography was commissioned across multiple public programmes, documenting how culture, design and community activity are experienced in the city centre.
Creating a visual record of culture in public space.
Photography was produced across a series of outdoor cultural events, including Celebrating Bold Street, Celebrating Castle Street, and Last Day of Summer. These events brought music, markets, workshops and performance into streets, docks and public squares across the city.
The work focuses on atmosphere and participation, capturing how people move through the city, gather around activity, and use public space in different ways. Rather than isolating individual moments, the coverage reflects the scale and rhythm of each event, from busy street performances and markets to quieter moments of interaction.
Across all three programmes, the imagery shows Liverpool’s city centre as active, social and accessible, shaped as much by the people attending as by the events themselves.
Coverage also included the unveiling of a new large-scale mural on Mathew Street, designed by Joe Venning. The mural celebrates 100 musicians who have shaped Liverpool’s musical heritage, positioning Mathew Street itself as the stage.
Photography documented the mural in context, within the street, alongside audiences and passersby, capturing its relationship to place rather than treating it as a standalone artwork. The work reflects how public art functions as part of the city’s everyday life.
Event photography was commissioned for the Future Designers Competition and Awards, a city-wide initiative supporting young people interested in design, architecture and the built environment. Coverage spanned the public exhibition of shortlisted work and the awards ceremony celebrating the participants.
The photography focuses on presentation, engagement and response, documenting how ideas are shared, viewed and discussed, as well as the excitement and pride of the young designers involved. The resulting images provide a clear record of the programme’s impact and public-facing presence.
Alongside event coverage, a series of location photographs was commissioned across the city centre. Working from a defined list of sites, the focus was on documenting streets and public spaces themselves rather than identifiable individuals.
Images were made using slower shutter speeds to obscure faces, allowing the locations to be shown in use while remaining GDPR-conscious. This approach prioritised movement, scale and spatial context over detail, creating imagery that reflects how the city feels rather than how it looks at a single moment in time.
The resulting photographs were designed for practical use, supporting internal communication and reporting by providing a clear, consistent visual record of key locations across the BID areas.
