Tag: Threshold Festival

• Shrines Through the Lens: Graham Smillie and the Social Impact of Roadside Memorial Photography

  

  Liverpool-based photographer Graham Smillie traces his creative journey from documenting the city’s grassroots music scene to visually exploring roadside shrines and makeshift memorials across Liverpool. This article examines how his socially engaged photographic practice reveals the emotional, political and communal impact of public memorials in both urban and rural environments.

  Alison Little

  24.02.2026

  Arts and Culture, Lifestyle, Liverpool

  Community and grief in photography, Documentary photography, Graham Smillie, Liverpool photography, Music and culture photography, Public space and memory, Roadside memorials, Socially engaged photography, Threshold Festival, Urban and rural photography