Anime girl strides past Sandy Row mural wearing pink platform boots in image created after chance meeting with Belfast-born contemporary photographer

Hannah Starkey, Untitled May 2022, 2022

Catriona Doherty

Hannah Starkey grew up on the Cavehill Road in north Belfast and left Northern Ireland in 1990 to study photography, film and television at Edinburgh Napier University. Now living in east London, she is currently exhibiting Hannah Starkey: In Real Life at The Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire.

Throughout her career, Hannah’s photographs have engaged with how women are represented in contemporary culture.