Psychogeography is a different way to experience and explore our urban spaces by walking a specific route or terrain equipped with a strong understanding of its history and a willingness to let it influence your thoughts. For photographers and visual artists, this innovative approach gives us the chance to move on from a purely pictorial exercise. The writers Will Self and Iain Sinclair are an excellent starting point if you are interested in reading how history mixed with observation can be combined with experience and the entirely imagined. The Wirral was also the birthplace of the author Malcolm Lowry who was much admired by the early psychogeographers and whose novels were permeated with mentions of his birthplace.

A ‘drift’, as psychogeographers like to call it, should be taken after filling yourself to the brim with as much factual research and literature as possible. Stoked with such information and with new ideas looking for a place to take shape, you’ll shoot your response in a completely different manner.

Read about Tim Daly’s exploration of the Wirral Peninsula in B+W 303