Sound and Vision
Sound and Vision: music and fashion photographed by Francesco Mellina, Liverpool, 1978 - 82. An exhibition at the National Conservation Centre, 1 May to 31 August 2009.
"Everything inspires me! I used to work for a club and I had to be many different characters at a moment's notice, like being in dry dock I suppose until I had a character and then I'd change; sometimes Grace Jones, sometimes a basketball player, sometimes Marilyn Monroe. Otherwise I always have the beard, its just me as I am, Richard."
To complement his pictures of Liverpool fashions from 1978 to 1982 featured in the Sound and Vision exhibition, photographer Francesco Mellina took portrait photographs of some of the city's most stylish people in 2009.
All of these photographs are featured here on the website. One of the photographs was also selected to be framed and included on the walls of the exhibition itself by fashion designer Kirsty Doyle, who very kindly judged the Picture This! competition.