PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM

The winter of 2024 was a strange one; a winter where I found myself standing on a foggy, desolate street, and shouting to a bald man wearing striped socks, holding a smoke-billowing French horn.

Design and photography by Bluewhistle. Presented here my work with Lizzie Nunnery and Vidar Norheim on their stirring and poetic album "Black Hound Howling".

My neighbors' windows twitch because Velma von Bon Bon is a burlesque performer who lives on my street. When not peeking through the net curtains, my other neighbors are leading their mundane lives; they may be ironing their office shirts or hoovering quavers from their Hyundais, but meanwhile, there is a hive of activity coming from next door. Gemma is a performer and puppet-maker par excellence. We've often heard her practicing acrobatics and have even spotted her perfectin

Last February, we drove out to farmers’ fields in the rain — myself, my long-time collaborator Liv Hejenkowska from Poland, and her sister Vicky. We used real props. Real people held a grubby ladder, and we took the pictures with a 2017 DSLR. I can utilise AI — I’m a graphic designer with years of experience. I might use some tools to select or retouch small portions of an image, but AI isn’t and never will be a photograph . It has no heart, no soul. Light hasn’t traveled thr

Photography by James Wafer of Bluewhistle: Kathryn Turner, model, Miss England contestant

Photography by James Wafer of Bluewhistle: Ije McDougall, TEDx speaker

Photography by James Wafer of Bluewhistle: Ije McDougall, TEDx speaker

I was commisioned to create photography for the Samshield range of Equastrian wear. The day was an unexpected joy with a a location at a stables and a model Robyn. A full 7 hours of photography ensued with my then camera a sturdy Pentax and some beautiful lenses. Here are a small selection of my favourites from successful day all round.

Around 2010, I worked on a beautiful album by Liverpool artist Lizzie Nunnery. Lizzie was a long-time collaborator, and these shots...

I recently had the pleasure of photographing the wonderfully erudite Diana Goodier. She's a former librarian and re-enactor of the Viking...

Karen Wilson, artist A portrait I took a few years back. I posed Karen in a marshy, reed area of a park and photographed her with one of...

Photography James Wafer, Bluewhistle. A personal project - my son Thomas, back to his time on the high seas There was once a time my son...

Lizzie Nunnery, Hungry Ep cover photography and art direction The idea Working with Lizzie Nunnery and her beautifully poetic music always brought out my appreciation of all things late 19th and early 20th century. And so my initial sketches for the cover had the ghost of Arthur Rackham's illustrations for Alice in Wonderland in them. Lizzie lost in so many words and ideas. A friend of mine owned a big house by the river Mersey with a library full of books on psychotherapy, a

The title from Maggie Times Watch the music video for "Maggie Times" below. I shot this film on an Iphone 16 pro. See my other WEAVE video: "A study in Fog" here

Olivia - New Brighton: concept, costume design, photography James Wafer, Bluewhistle Liv is a local model and creative mind. She has...

Working with talented actor-performer Jen Hardy was one of those jobs where everything made sense from start to finish. Her act, "Wet...

Bluewhistle Design Poster; 100 Seel St. by Lizzie Nunnery, Jeff Young and Joe Ward Munrow Project Overview This was a fascinating...

Tale of a Flying Dog by James Wafer of Bluewhistle The thing about ideas is that they aren't made of anything. Much like what...

If I had my way, I'd spend my days writing and daydreaming and working on images like this. Whilst I can't reveal all my secrets here, the image has been created almost entirely with the elements set-up in the real world... I'm not telling you which ones though! If you have a project that you would like to hire me for then hit the contract button! #liverpool #magic #memory #love #songthrush #photography #graphicdesign