Mersey Murder is a series of images exploring poverty in the suburbs of Liverpool. Due to the decline in the shipping industry, manufacturing and several failed regeneration programmes the suburbs have been left to decline into vacated and neglected spaces. Communities are left neighbouring these zones where opportunities come few and far between, crime and gang culture has become a by-product with murals marking the landscape showing the tip of the iceberg of issues that face these communities.
Kensington
RIP mural in Toxteth for a killed gang member
Toxteth
Kensington laundrette and death place of Sean 'Shorty' McHugh after a fatal stabbing
Graffiti marking gang territory and publicly outing a police informer.
Abandoned factory along the docks
Police search for a murder weapon
RIP murals for two fallen gang members
Anfield
RIP Mural
Bootle
Toxteth mural
Location of a burnt out car after it had been used in a drive by shooting
Toxteth