101 Pictures101 Pictures focuses on photographer Tom Woods celebrated work taken in Liverpool and the Wirral between 1978 and 2001. Most of the photographs in the book were captured within a 10 minute walk of Woods Wallasey home. They show families, couples and individuals inhabiting the streets, pubs, workplaces, parks, and markets where his regular presence allowed him to become an accepted part of the social landscape. Collectively the photographs create an

Looking At The Overlooked describes a way of encountering the world

manure being dug

because to buy tea for the whole family would be too expensive

During the day they travel up to 20 miles to feed and return in the afternoon

so have you

Can we hold it in esteem if it’s not cloaked in art speak

panoramic and tactical

Within his pictures you see echoes of the photographs which came before—a broken version of Paul Strand’s white picket fence

Winogrand’s haphazard streets and stock photos of rodeos

‘Subida al Cielo’ means ‘ascent into heaven’

In Seven Hills

In a highly conscious manner