Mark McNulty is a portrait and documentary photographer from Liverpool who has been active since the mid-1980s. Most of his work focuses on his hometown, highlighting bands, club nights, and the faces of the city.
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Mark documented many hedonistic nights at Liverpool’s legendary Quadrant Park, 051 Club, and The State. Aside from his home city, he ventured all over UK clubland capturing everything from rave nights at Rezerection in Edinburgh to the era of the “superclub” at venues such as Cream, Sankeys Soap, and Back to Basics in Leeds.
Mark: “One of the first club nights I photographed was called 8 Orgasms, at Macmillan’s in Liverpool. I had been going to the club for a while and started to meet people on the scene. Peter Coyle, the previous singer of The Lotus Eaters, organised the night with a group of other people. It mixed live music with performance art and karaoke. They had John McCready as the resident DJ, and it was one of the first places where I heard house music in Liverpool.”
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Mark: “My first published work was for a Manchester magazine called Avant. This was the first time I photographed Quadrant Park, which was based in a massive old warehouse in Bootle. It was a mad place really, with people travelling from all over. It was just one big dance floor!”
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“I started sending my work to magazines like i-D, The Face, and Mixmag. After they saw the shots I was taking, they sent me all over the place, capturing the scene as it exploded into the superclub era of the mid-90s.
I got to take my camera around the UK, capturing some iconic nights and DJs as they broke onto the scene.”
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“I have never stopped, and I still work as a photographer. Music and arts documentation have never been far from my cameras, but I have been fortunate enough to work across all kinds of different sectors, from TV companies to museums, arts organisations, and numerous brands.”
Photo © Mark McNulty, all rights reserved.
Photo © Mark McNulty, all rights reserved.
Photo © Mark McNulty, all rights reserved.
Photo © Mark McNulty, all rights reserved.
Photo © Mark McNulty, all rights reserved.
Photo © Mark McNulty, all rights reserved.
Photo © Mark McNulty, all rights reserved.
Photo © Mark McNulty, all rights reserved.
Photo © Mark McNulty, all rights reserved.
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