Mark McNulty Photography

Happy St.Patrick's Day!

Radio Radio

After spending 2 days up St.John's Beacon, photographing various radio presenters for Radio City's new City Talk station, I spent most of yesterday recording a 15 minute photography programme for Radio 4 to go out in the new year at the launch of the Capital of Culture year. The idea was to talk to me about my work and how Liverpool's changing and then talk to some of the people I work with. Matt from Black & Ginger came along and we got to do some recording in E Chambre Hardman's house and at the top of The Anglican Cathedral so it felt more like a photography themed day out than work. I did take a couple of photographs whilst wandering around but they were on film so you can't seem them. This image is not relevant in any way but I just wanted to put a photo up. It was taken in Rhyl a couple of months ago.

Frustrated

Well, I am at the moment because I can't show the jobs I've been working on recently. This week is being taken up by an interiors shoot in London, a fashion shoot in Liverpool, 3 music commissions and a portrait. I've also been working on some images of Liverpool for a business magazine. The only thing is that I don't like showing commissioned work on here until it's been approved or printed so I'm frustrated because I'm made up with loads of the work I've been doing this week but can't show it! So here's something that's irrelevant to all of it. Thanks.

Website

I've been working on a new website and, at the same time, updating my portfolio for the first time in a few years so I've been coming across some photographs I've not seen in a while. Here's one of Helen, from Ladytron, taken in Shanghai.

Andraste's Hair

In November 2006 I photographed the Liverpool poet Eleanor Rees for the jacket of her new book Andraste's Hair. This photograph, from the same session, was taken on Otterspool Prom.  The book was launched on Friday, with excerpts read by other poets, at Radio Merseyside and is available from Salt Publishing.

sound la

I'm in the Echo, or at least their new summer of music supplement called 'Sound 07', being interviewed by Jade Wright.  And it's 4 pages long whereas Pete Wylie only got one! The mag comes with a cd of exclusive recordings by local names such as The Bunnymen, Eva Petersen, Wylie and The Coral.  And it's a fiver ( a pound goes to the Anthony Walker Foundation) which is cheap at half the price because the cd also has a version of Love's 'A House Is Not A Motel' by Shack on it.  All good newsagents etc....

Anyone for tennis?

Thanks to Christine from Impact Models, Sunday had me suffering the mother of all hangovers after she invited a group of us to join her at the Liverpool International Tennis tournament in Calderstones Park.
Free food, drink and of course tennis for those of a sporting nature.  People were just picking up cameras
all day and taking photographs and I think that Matt from Black & Ginger took this one.  It's a photograph of a famous tennis player with his eyes shut.

Bjork - 1993

Last night saw the launch of the new edition of Another Late Night magazine and it's the first issue of the magazine that I've contributed to.  It was a nice night, met a few people, drank too much Stella and ending up going to Korova and talking nonsense for a few hours. Not much changed there then.  The show's up for a month in Microzine, on Bold Street and is well worth checking out.  And here's my contribution to the mag.

Bjork for Mixmag, 1993.

The week I photographed Bjork, which was in 1993, I also photographed the one hit dance wonders D-Ream.  D-Ream were Pete Cunnah and, at the time, DJ Al McKenzie.  They both had short hair but spent the best part of two hours in hair make up and wardrobe. Bjork walked into the studio, carrier bag in hand, and said 'where should I stand?'.  The magazine I was working for was Mixmag and they'd asked me to do something a bit more light hearted than she was known for being at the time.  I asked her if she could go gozzy, she said 'what is gozzy?' and I said cross eyed.  I must have taken about 50 shots on the whole shoot and every single one of them is another face pulled and distorted.  One of the images from a different contact sheet, ended up on the cover of Mixmag and a biography about the singer.  This was a highlight of my work at the time but even better was seeing one of the images copied as an airbrushed painting on the side of a fairground ride in a Dorset resort only 2 years ago.

Show offs

Another Late Night is a Liverpool based magazine that's been building up and up for a few years now to the point that's it's gone from local, through regional to national.  The new issue, called 'Show Offs', is the first one that I've contributed content to and I'll show you what that was once the mag's out there.  To coincide with the launch there'll be an exhibition featuring the mag's content, and more, on display at Microzine on Bold Street in Liverpool. Opens next Wednesday, normal shop hours!