David Lockwood is a Liverpool based photographer who has been active in both photography and photographic education since graduating from Staffordshire University in the ’90s. Whilst working as a lecturer through most of his career, he retired from teaching and the running of the Liverpool based Degree in Digital Imaging and Photography in 2025. David now works mainly as a photographer, but his work life has always stretched beyond taking pictures. Alongside his photographic practice, he also runs a photographic bookshop, Nonpareil Books – online bookshop specialising in rare and collectable photographic books and prints, and Nonpareil Photographic, which specialises in sourcing, designing/making and selling vintage, usable and collectable photographica. Both shops grew out of his long-standing interest in visual culture, printed photography, and the craft of analogue image‑making. Together, these roles place him within a wider community of readers, collectors, and photographers, and allow him to move between creative work and the world of photographic books and cameras.
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David has just finished the amendments to his practice-led PhD at Liverpool John Moores University. His research/practice focused on the photographic re-presentation of landscape following the zeitgeist of the 1974 New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape exhibition. This produced works including Finding Fangorn ( www.findingfangorn.com ), the Allotments and the New West.
Finding Fangorn was funded by the Woodland Trust and displayed at the Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool in 2017 as part of The Charter for Trees, Woods and People, which nationally celebrated the 800th anniversary of the 1217 Charter of the Forest. The collaborative project The Allotments involved David with creative writer Pauline Rowe and includes the last works of his father, the landscape painter the late Arthur Lockwood – the work was exhibition as part of the LOOK Photo Biennial 2019. The last work in this series The New West: Exploration of the Geological Parallel continued David’s interest in post-photographic agendas to broaden approaches and explore technologies with which to document and reference the human-altered landscape. It was nominated by Sarah Fisher (Executive Director – Open Eye Gallery) to show as part of the Peer to Peer: UK/HK festival. Peer to Peer: UK/HK is a digital programme and platform encouraging meaningful cultural exchange and forging enduring partnerships between the UK and Hong Kong’s visual arts sectors.
David is also custodian of the Penguin Education (imprint of the British publisher Penguin Books from 1965 to 1974) photographic print archive.
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