Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen Revisits Her Old Byker Neighborhood

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Bringing Color to Newcastle

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s black-and-white photos of Newcastle’s industrial past helped newcomers to the English town adjust to life. She returned, after decades, to photograph them — in color.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/bringing-color-to-newcastle/

“When Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen moved to Byker, an English neighborhood in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, she was drawn to the laughter, the children playing in the streets, the energy. For her, this blue-collar community brimmed with life.

Then it was demolished.”