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Byker

Byker

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen came to live in Byker, in Newcastle's East End in 1969. She lived there until 1976 and spent over a decade documenting the community through hundreds of photographs before the terraces were demolished to make way for the Byker Wall Estate.  

Throughout the book the people of Byker speak for themselves, in anecdotes, reminiscences, fragments of conversations often illustrating the complexity of human relationships. The text isn’t there to fill the gaps, it’s an essential part of the Byker story. In her poetic, intimate introduction to the book Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen draws the reader into what was a very personal experience which nevertheless makes broad political statements about the nature of the society we live in.

This vintage publication was released in 1988. 

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Type: Paperback

Year: 1988

Pages: 128 pages

ISBN: 0906427908

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books & Amber/Side

Size: 185mm x 245mm

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is a Finnish photographer who has worked in Britain since the 1960s. Born in Myllykoski, municipality of Sippola, Finland, Konttinen moved to London to study film in the late 1960s at the Polytechnic in Regent Street. In 1968, she co-founded the Amber Film and Photography Collective, which moved to Newcastle in 1969.
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