Stephen McCoy is a British photographer who lives and works on Merseyside. He was born and raised in Liverpool. He studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic and later taught photography for about 20 years. In 1997 he began working with photographer Stephanie Wynne as McCoy Wynne.
His series Personal Space was made between 1980 and 1984. It shows his family at home, photographed on 35 mm film with flash. In the early 1980s he also photographed people in Skelmersdale. One of those portraits, Chicken Girl (1983), was made on a 5x4 camera and later appeared on an album cover.
His retrospective Proximity was shown at the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol from 2 October to 21 December 2025. It began at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool in 2024.
