Liverpool Before and After - The Waterfront and famous landmarks in beautiful 'Then and Now' images

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+++ In May 2021 AVZINE was rebranded to AidanEyewitness +++
For this video I've delved into my Liverpool photo archive in order to see how Liverpool has changed. I've selected about 10 locations and placed the 'before' and 'after' images on top of each other, alternating between them. Documenting change in cities is an important theme of mine. I produced my Eyewitness in Manchester website from 1997-2005 and also covered Liverpool. I started to photograph Liverpool with the intention of documenting locations that would change and seeing how they looked afterwards. I was commissioned to take the 'Now' photos from the book 'Liverpool Then and Now. I was proud to see it on the shelf in the Walker Art Gallery bookshop, next to the biography of Paul McCartney.

I've discovered that 'Now' photos soon turn into 'Then' photos so I prefer to use the title 'Before and After'. These are all archive images and after the pandemic, I'll be out and about taking more photos and videoclips for future videos. Some 'Before and After' images don't match up exactly. Some people are obsessive about this, like my editor for the book "Liverpool Then and Now' but as long as they roughly match up, I'm happy. Some of the images match up almost exactly.