, taking photographs is a labour of love – a deeply personal exercise that’s seen him intimately document the people of Liverpool for three decades. “I didn’t think I had a right to steal someone’s picture and make a career out of it,” explains Wood. “If I was a nobody, I figured I could take photographs out of love. It was an equal exchange. Martin Parr once told me that I was too nice to be a photographer.
Attending week after week, over time Wood became one of the market’s well-known faces, and it’s his familiarity with his subjects that allowed him to truly capture both the characteristics and idiosyncrasies of Great Homer Street. Here, Wood shares the story of Great Homer Street.“I’d visited Great Homer Street once in the early 1970s with a girlfriend. I’d never seen a market like it, it spanned both sides of the road for a long way, mainly stocking secondhand goods in those days.