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michaelkirkham.bsky.social
Photographer & Community Educator based in Liverpool. With a focus on class, place and society. Work/feat. BBC, Microsoft, Vice, UEFA, NHS UK & more. Creator of Urban Goals. www.michaelkirkham.co.uk
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Archive: Liverpool Town Hall. September 2023. Eyes on the Right. Liverpool 2010 - 2024 (and counting) A body of work documenting far right visits to Liverpool and the people's response to them. #Photography #Nikon #Liverpool #Eyesontheright #SocialDocumentary #Street #Project

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#OtD 8 Feb 1921 Peter Kropotkin, famous proponent of anarchist-communism, died of pneumonia in Russia. He took part in revolutionary groups in four countries and was a major contributor to anarchist theory. Works by and about him available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/...

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This is great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M00N...

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Urban Goals. Stannington, Sheffield. 2025. #Urban #Football #Photography #Goals #UrbanGoals #Nikon #UK #Photographer #Project #Class #Place

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www.jeremysuttonhibbert.com/glasgow-base... @jshphotog.bsky.social

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Urban Goals. Walton, Liverpool. 2016. #Urban #Football #Photography #Goals #UrbanGoals #Nikon #UK #Photographer #Project #Class #Place

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Beryl. A lifelong Liverpool fan, she has been going to home games since the 1960's. Walton Breck Rd, Liverpool. 25.01.2025 #LFC #Photography #Portrait #Nikon #Liverpool

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Anfield Rd, Liverpool. 25.01.2025 #Phototgraphy #LFC #Liverpool #Street

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Kirsty Mackay. She studied photography at Glasgow College before leaving for New York and London to work as assistant to photographers including Herb Ritts, Nick Knight and Anton Corbijn. “I wanted to make a point about your place of birth and how it affects your life.”

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Some work from my Bramley Moore FC project. Shot in Liverpool between 2021 - 2023. #photography #football #grassroots #bramleymoore

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Down by the river today.

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Well Done. Aigburth, Liverpool. January 2025. #photography #street #light #shadow

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Urban Goals. Kirkdale, Liverpool. 2020. #Urban #Photography #City #UK #UrbanGoals #Goals #Street #Class #Society #MichaelKirkham #Project #Nikon

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The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker has resumed its tracking of Donald Trump's anti-press rhetoric online pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/all-the...

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Todays teaching feedback from the students “well better then maths”. I’ll take that 🤣

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Urban Goals. North End, Birkenhead. 2016. #Photography #Project #Football #Urban #Goals #UrbanGoals #Soccer

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Feed the world, starve the rich. Hulme, Manchester, 1986. Photo © Beezer Photos / BCA. All rights reserved.

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Before. During. After. Images from my long term project "Eyes on the right" taken August 2015 in Lime St Station, Liverpool. #photography #eyesontheright #documentaryphotography

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#OtD 6 Jan 2014 workers at a Goodyear plant in Amiens, France, took two bosses hostage demanding better severance pay. They occupied the plant and kept bosses inside until the company agreed to triple redundancy pay. More info, plus commemorative shirt: shop.workingclasshistory.com/...

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Some 2024 photography highlights from a year spent mostly teaching it.

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Starting the year as I mean to go on. Planning new photo projects and lessons for teaching too. Photography has changed my life and for that I'll always be grateful.

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Easy Tiger! Happy New Year everyone!! Love, light & all that shite x

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Image from my long term project The Blues. Focusing on the fans of my late Mums team of Everton. Goodison Rd. December 2024. #photography #theblues #everton #efc #premierleague #football #fans #culture #pints #match

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Image from my long term project The Blues. Focusing on the fans of my late Mums team of Everton. Goodison Rd. December 2024. #photography #theblues #everton #efc #premierleague #football #fans #culture #pints #match

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Urban Goals. Walton, Liverpool. 2024. #photography #football #urban #goals #urbangoals #liverpool

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The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.

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Outtake. Urban Goals. Stockbridge Village, Knowsley. 2023. #photography #urbangoals #outtake #blackandwhite #project #football #michaelkirkham

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Some work from my Urban Goals project. Started in May 2015, I continue to photograph this project UK wide and beyond today. #photography #urbangoals #football #michaelkirkham

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Some images from "Eyes on the right". A body of work now spanning 14 years that documents various far right visits to the city of Liverpool 2010 - 2024. #photography #project #eyesontheright

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Butterburn Court multi, Dundee, April 1985. Photo Neale Elder

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Some images from the World in one city tournament earlier in the year. I photographed a few games over three rounds but will make sure to document as much as possible of the event in 2025.

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Some images from the World in one city tournament earlier in the year. I photographed a few games over three rounds but will make sure to document as much as possible of the event in 2025.

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Some images from the World in one city tournament earlier in the year. I photographed a few games over three rounds but will make sure to document as much as possible of the event in 2025.

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Couch Surfing. Birkenhead. 2016.

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Orange Disaster, 1963 https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/3899/

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Bloody wind ruining my day. No photos, or footy, today. #stormdarragh

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Some images from Tough Love. A project documenting boxing in the North West, UK. Photographed in Liverpool 2014 - 2017. Never finished, I might just pick it back up one day.

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#OtD 5 Dec 1955 the Montgomery bus boycott began, four days after arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to vacate her seat in the "coloured" section of a segregated bus to a white passenger. The successful campaign helped spur the civil rights movement stories.workingclasshistory.c...

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Spend some time with Anas Alkharboutli's work on IG. In a sea of disposable noise from "content creators" and influencers his work stood apart—urgent, meaningful, and human. A tragic loss. www.instagram.com/anasalkharbo...

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