Tish Murtha

Elswick Kids

£22.00

When Tish Murtha sadly died from a brain aneurysm in 2013, she had largely been forgotten In 2017, her key work, Youth Unemployment, was published to universal acclaim, and was followed by a major retrospective at Londonโ€™s Photographers Gallery. Tish has now been recognised as a social-documentary photographer of the first rank.

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ISBN 9781908457677
Soft Cover
Duotone – 270mm x 290mm (landscape) – 180 pages

 

Murtha had set out to document โ€œmarginalised communities from the insideโ€ and, set against todayโ€™s austerity, her work is more relevant than ever. The anger and frustration evident in Youth Unemployment even reached the House of Commons, where it was raised as a subject of debate. Elswick Kids is a less strident set of images. They were taken as Tish walked the streets of the working-class district of Elswick in Newcastle Upon Tyne and were not intended to be an exhibition in their own right. Today, though, they tell of a time when children had the freedom of the streets to play in and where friendship blossomed against a seemingly harsh background. The photographs have a stark beauty that shines from every page. Elswick Kids is a vital contribution to our understanding of life in a northern city in the late twentieth century.

Additional information

Weight 1.5 kg
Dimensions 29 × 27 × 2.5 cm