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The posters can be seen at Moorfields train station alongside a number of others on the Northern line(Image: Colin Lane\/Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\nThe photos will remain in place until after the new yearThe posters can be seen at Moorfields train station alongside a number of others on the Northern line(Image: Colin Lane\/Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n
Merseyrail has unveiled a new look for several of its stations for the Christmas and New Year period. A special photographic project showcasing the portraits and words of members of Liverpool\u2019s queer community is now being shown at a dozen stations across the Northern and Wirral<\/a> lines until February.<\/p>\n Titled Residents, the project was co-commissioned as part of the 2025 edition by Homotopia and Open Eye Gallery<\/a>, the UK\u2019s longest-running LGBTQIA+ arts and culture festival,<\/a> which saw a programme of events around the theme \u2018Uprising\u2019 taking place across the city during November.<\/p>\n Queer photographer Ming De Nasty spent four months capturing members of the LGBTQIA+ community on camera for the co-commission. The project has already included an exhibition outside the Open Eye Gallery on Mann Island.<\/p>\n Open Eye Gallery\u2019s Bronwyn Andrews, creative producer of Residents, added: \u201cTo see queer people existing \u2013 publicly, proudly, openly and vibrantly – in the city centre sends a message that there are unique, authentic ways of being the person you are.<\/p>\n \u201cAt a time when LGBTQIA+ people find ourselves under constant attack both culturally and politically, the act of sharing Residents publicly in the city is about more than pictures of people on a wall \u2013 it\u2019s about resilience and pride.\u201d<\/p>\n LGBTQIA+ people have long gathered in Liverpool city centre<\/a> for safety, community and self-expression.<\/p>\n Residents honours that culture by making their presence visible via public artworks, and is a place for queer people of different generations and identities to celebrate each other.<\/p>\n The photographs and accompanying text can be seen at Aughton Park, Birkenhead<\/a> Central, Eastham Rake, Green Lane, Hamilton Square, James Street, Kirkdale<\/a>, Maghull<\/a> North, Moorfields, Rock Ferry, Spital and Town Green.<\/p>\n Over a 35-year career, portrait and documentary photographer Ming de Nasty has worked on many projects with local and national organisations, including Birmingham\u2019s IKON gallery and Factory International in Manchester and has been exhibited widely in the UK.<\/p>\n Along with being staged by Homotopia, it is also part of the Combined Authority\u2019s wider Photo Here programme.<\/p>\n It is a series of six residencies, one in each borough of the Liverpool City Region, in which a diverse range of established groups have been invited to tell their stories and those of the areas they live in with the help of socially engaged photographers in residence.<\/p>\n Sinead Nunes, Interim Executive Director at Homotopia, said: \u201cOur 2025 festival, Uprising, was an unapologetically defiant and rallying cry against increasing hostility towards LGBTQIA+ people.<\/p>\n “So it feels apt that this exhibition of queer faces \u2013 literally reclaiming space in train stations across the Liverpool City Region \u2013 continues that message of visibility, resilience and empowerment into 2026\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The photos will remain in place until after the new yearThe posters can be seen at Moorfields train…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,14721,179,1834,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-641116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-lgbtqia","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-merseyrail","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115743087746235966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"One](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_PhotobyBronwynAndrews-39.jpg\")
One of the photos on show by queer photographer Ming De Nasty(Image: Bronwyn Andrews)<\/p>\n![\"Nick](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766099243_207_0_image.jpg\")
Nick with his portrait at Eastham Rake. Photograph of Residents by Ming de Nasty, part of Homotopia Festival 2025(Image: Bronwyn Andrews)<\/p>\n