"Cities on the Edge" is new photography work commissioned by Liverpool Culture Company in 2008. This is an issue based exhibition and book on the theme of people and places that illustrates Liverpool in relationship to five other European port cities. Six photographer-artists represent the six cities:

Gabriele Basilico - *Naples* - Italy
Philippe Conti - *Marseille* - France
Wojtek Wilczyk - *Gdansk* - Poland
Sandy Volz - *Bremen* - Germany
Ali Taptik - *Istanbul* - Turkey
John Davies - *Liverpool* - UK

*Liverpool University Press* is publishing the /Cities on the Edge/ book this November, edited by John Davies, containing 128 pages with 72 colour and B&W photographs from all six cities and text in six languages. ISBN 9781846311864 £24.95 hb.