Alex Hurst

Alex Hurst is a documentary and portrait photographer from Liverpool. Her work from the 1990s includes children in Toxteth, visitors to New Brighton and the women’s hair salons she photographed across Merseyside.

In her 1998 salon series, she photographed Pam’s Hairdressers in Crosby and Broadway Hairdressers in Waterloo, recording their customers and interiors. Hurst has said she wanted to document the smaller salons while an older generation of customers was still there.

In the late ’90s I spent a lot of my spare time taking photographs of hairdressers near where I live. This was one of my favourites, it was called ‘Broadway’

The interior was very austere and the carpet that was pieced together using gaffer tape!

The customers were women who had lived through World War Il and I wanted to document these little salons while that generation were still with us. 

Alex Hurst has worked as a documentary and portrait photographer since the mid-1990s. She is based in Liverpool, where her photographic work includes Merseyside street life, New Brighton and hair salons.