MEL MULLIGAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Mel Mulligan began her photographic career in 1993, following on from her magazine work for Vogue, Marie Clare and Elle as a session hairdresser in Manchester and London.

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Her work has progressed from her final exhibition at Kent Institute of Art and Design in 1996, where she presented a series of in-depth studio-based shoe images. These images document the ‘life and soul’ of the shoe.

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From this point until beginning her degree course in 2021, Mel has used advances in phone technology to discreetly document everyday life.

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Mel’s latest work is predominantly focused on absence with a collection of images dealing with the loss of two close members of her family within a five-month period. She used her uncles’ medium format camera to represent seeing her subject matter through his photography obsessed eye. As part of her healing process, she used shadow and space to highlight absence.

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