Social Documentary Photography
Alex “I have always been a very people orientated person and I became interested in photography from a young age, so social documentary was a way of combining both of those interests. I’d spend my days as a teenager wandering around the city and its surrounding area looking for people to photograph. In retrospect, I must have looked mad as from 1996 I was walking around taking pictures while pushing my daughter around in her buggy! When I look back at the photographs I took during this period, I feel that they have become more meaningful with the passage of time. Many areas of 1990’s Liverpool are no longer recognisable; capturing these fleeting moments provides us with a time capsule that keeps us in touch with times and places that are long gone.”
It was also in the mid ‘90s while studying photography that she began doing promo for some Liverpool bands and soon after her work was being published in music magazines. This eventually led to her doing work for several record companies.
Mick Rock
“In my late twenties I felt I should advance my technical skills, so I worked as a photographer’s assistant for many years while still doing my own work. I learned a hell of a lot when I assisted and I got to work with some amazing photographers. The first person I ever assisted was Mick Rock on a shoot for the band Ladytron in 2005. My assisting days were invaluable to me and it was a really happy, exciting time.”
Film and Television
Since 2008 Alex has been working mainly from her studio in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle and in 2021 expanded into working in film and television as a portrait and unit stills photographer. She continues to document Liverpool life.
Gallery
All Photos © Alex Hurst, all rights reserved.
