Patrick was born in 1954 in the Liverpool 8 district now known as Toxteth.
He discovered photography at an early age after buying a plastic camera kit and chemicals from a neighbours mail order catalogue, developing the film in a makeshift darkroom in his wardrobe complete with light leaks, each shelf was cleared of clothes and developer fixer and water were placed in trays on each shelf as the magic happened he was hooked for life.
Wanting to be a professional photographer he walked the length and breadth of Liverpool asking to be an assistant to the top photographers in the city at the time but none took on assistants and one top photographer advised him to go to London where such apprentices were accepted.
Being only 15 years old at the time his parents were dead against it understandably, and so a long process of boring jobs entailed and the photographic dream ended.
Many years later the photographic call came again only this time in between working hours.
Year by year he watched the medium grow from wet stuff as he called it to digital and after waiting for the digital era to improve became a pro photographer involving weddings, portraiture and glamour all soul draining but lucrative.
Street photography was always in his system although he cringes at the word street photography and likes to think of it as life photography where the streets of the city are his studio, any city.
Now retired he takes the pictures he wants to take and his love of people and different personalities are his passion.
He realises now in his later years time is getting shorter and a serious illness in 2021 brought that home to him.
His look on life is “I don’t judge, I merely record and move on”.
2026.
Patrick Noone 