Documentary, portrait and landscape photographer — observing people and place, and resident of the building's large photography studio.
Simon Hyde has spent a lifetime behind the camera, and the thing that's held throughout is observation — being invited to see, and to witness, the moments that matter.
His work sits at the meeting point of two things he cares about equally: people, and place. Documentary and portrait work that captures candid, unscripted emotion — the normal, the routine, the moments so familiar they're almost invisible, and therefore easy to miss. And landscape work, built from long hours out in the countryside, where the same patience and attention gets turned toward the land instead.
Si is autistic and has ADHD, and he's open about how that shapes his practice. He describes it as a torrent of thoughts and ideas that need somewhere to go — and photography, for him, is the discipline that gives that noise an order. It's part of why he notices what others don't.
His commercial work is built around a simple filter: he wants to appeal to a type of person, not a market. The organisations he does his best work for share one thing — a belief that how the work gets made matters as much as what gets made. That's shown up most clearly in work for infrastructure and civil engineering clients, mental health and autism organisations, and public health campaigns — large-scale, purpose-led briefs where the work can genuinely reach people and shift something. He's just as at home helping shape the thinking behind a brief as he is on the shoot day itself — a brand strategy session he ran for one civil engineering client's leadership team was described as "better than anything they'd been involved in to date."
Underneath all of it is a belief that process matters. Looking after everyone on a shoot — crew, subjects, clients — isn't separate from getting a good result. It's how a good result gets made.
Si's personal work leans social documentary: giving a voice to people and communities who don't often get one, and shining a light on those quietly doing the work that holds a place together.
Documentary & portrait · Landscape · Brand & editorial · Strategy & brief development. Get in touch to discuss a commission or to book the studio.
A shoot in progress in the main studio.
In 2026 Si opened this new studio and creative space at 90 Rose Place, on the edge of Liverpool's Fabric District — built not just as a base for his own practice, but as somewhere for fellow photographers and filmmakers to work, and a community space for the city's freelance creative industry. Alongside the photography studio, Si also runs a dedicated edit suite for post-production — colour grading, retouching and video editing — and a small podcast & interview room, kitted out for recording conversations, voiceover and video content.
The edit suite, and the podcast & interview room.