Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Photos of Her Newcastle Neighborhood

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Byker in Black and White

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, a Finnish photographer, began taking pictures of her new neighborhood in Newcastle, in northeast England, in 1969, having no idea the area was slated for demolition.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/byker-in-black-and-white/

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.