eighthundred - one day / eight photographers / eight hundred people
About 3 weeks before Liverpool's 800th Birthday, Mark McNulty approached me with an idea for a shoot. 1 day, 8 photographers, 800 people. A crazy idea but a great one none the less. The idea wasn’t to photograph your friends or clients but Liverpool on its birthday. We got support from the Albert Dock who kindly said we could use the Grand Hall for the exhibition. The Culture Company also backed us. We got the funding for the prints and free wine for the launch. All that was left was to photograph 800 people in just one day. As you do. We all had assistants arranged who would be joining us on the day to keep us from going insane, focused and to take down details of the 100 people we all had to photographer. Unfortunately mine had to cancel so at 9am I was standing on Allerton Road looking for people to photograph...
When we were done, the sheer size of the exhibit, of 800 people being on the wall was amazing to see. Honestly its the most impressive gallery I’ve seen. We did it in about 2 and a half days. How?! I keep thinking about it, 1 day, 8 photographers, 800 people! How did we do that? 800 people!
