Sam Pierce, Born 2005, Shropshire, UK

I’m a photographic artist studying at Manchester Metropolitan university. I’ve been obsessed with making photographs since the age of 14 alongside having an interest for graphic design.

The beginning of my photographic career started during the Covid-19 pandemic. The lockdowns actually pushed me to shoot locally, in areas that are rarely photographed because they are perceived to be mundane. I benefitted from this significantly; not only did it widen my vision of photography early on, but it made me appreciate the smaller details in life that I had previously been unobservant towards. I now love ‘shooting democratically’ and turning the banal, everyday into something that is visually compelling in some form.

As well as photography, I have a passion for graphic design and have been doing it commercially.

Having an interest in several artforms can widen your view as a creator as a lot of skills are quite transferrable. I love experimenting in my practice and changing the ways I make art or approach a project all the time with a overall goal to ‘make cool stuff’.