A new exhibition at Amber Film & Photography Collective brings together the work of nine photographers who have documented the young people in the UK over a period of 40 years. Rarely seen works by Chris Killip and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen are shown alongside recent work by Alys Tomlinson, Maryam Wahid, Sadie Catt, Tom Sussex, Christopher Nunn, Paul Alexander Knox and Vanessa Winship. These photographers tenderly capture the awkward, surprising and passionate period of maturation into adulthood.
This series by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen was shot in the working-class English neighborhood of Byker, east of Newcastle. Taken in the 1960s
In the early nineteen-seventies, a small group of photographers—including Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, and Stephen Weiss—set out to document what they understood to be real British life
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.
“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.
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.
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.
