| When I was around seven years old, my parents bought me a purple pop-up viewfinder camera. I used to take this with me everywhere, photographing my seaside holidays, Sunday dinners at my grandparents and even my cats urinating. At ten, I got bored of carrying a camera around my neck and lost interest until it came to picking courses for my A-levels. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I picked Photography, Art and Media. These all sounded good at the time, but it was later that I realized the subjects involved a whole lot of work. I absolutely loved photography, and it was more than just a subject—it became a hobby. It was then that I started to make my own work… |  |
Liam Henry
When I was around seven years old, my parents bought me a purple pop-up viewfinder camera. I used to take this with me everywhere, photographing my seaside holidays, Sunday dinners at my grandparents and even my cats urinating. At ten, I got bored of carrying a camera around my neck and lost interest until it came to picking courses for my A-levels. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I picked Photography, Art and Media. These all sounded good at the time, but it was later that I realized the subjects involved a whole lot of work. I absolutely loved photography, and it was more than just a subject—it became a hobby. It was then that I started to make my own work, which was then influenced by the likes of Meatyard and Weegee’s black and white photography.
From there I began studying photography and digital imaging. My photos have changed dramatically in the last few years and I feel I have finally found my own style. The things I focus on these days are colour, composition and the ignored and mundane. When I say the mundane, I mean the things that people find uninteresting, boring and ordinary. I photograph them in a way that makes them interesting to me, and hopefully to others. I am a huge fan of the “lomo” movement and all things vintage in photography. Collecting cameras is a hobby of mine, I own just one digital SLR, but many vintage cameras. I see them as pieces of art that create art. I have a few projects in mind at the minute, one being the documentation of student housing in England. A lot of the student housing in Britain is far from a standard of living—due not to the lifestyles, but the accommodation being let out by landlords. My aim is to document the state of these residences and turn it into a book.
