Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Photos of Her Newcastle Neighborhood

Link: Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Photos of Her Newcastle Neighborhood – NYTimes.com

vistas were rare in 1969, when Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, a 21-year-old Finnish photographer, arrived. The landscape was cloaked in an industrial fog belched from the coal and shipbuilding industries.