"There's a couple of people I picked randomly, there's people I've picked through other people and there's people I've actually known," explains McNulty, who lives in Aigburth.
"I've chosen different types of people. I wanted to show bits of Liverpool as well. I didn't want the places to be anonymous."
Street Life aims to explain how fashion can signal many things from individual identity, membership of a particular group, allegiance to a favourite football
team or pop group. He added: "It's a non judgmental exhibition. There are all kinds of different people in there. On the streets of any city, the scallies or casual kids might be laughing at the punk kids and they might be sniggering at the dressed-up kids.
"People have all got their own opinions and their own different styles. But the whole thing about this is that it's non-judgmental, this is what people look like.
"So I didn't want to pose people because that makes me start judging it myself."
One thing both photographers agree on is that the exhibition isn't intended to portray catwalk or high street fashion.
"Not everything is about high street fashion.
"I've got a couple who are older, who love their designer clothes and wear a lot of Vivienne Westwood but they're in their 60s, and I've photographed skaters, Goth kids down at the Pier Head," says McNulty.
Spofforth, 25, who is based in Manchester, agrees: "Most people think of fashion as the current fashions in the shops but it wasn't like that for me in this project.
