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Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
By Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen Publisher : Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing 2000 | 120 pages Writing in the Sand is a photographic study of the beaches and beach towns of Northern England by Finnish-born photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, whose work has attracted considerable renown.
Acclaimed photographer and architects given honorary degrees
Published on: 14 July 2022 Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Fran Bradshaw and Anne Thorne, were honoured during ceremonies in Newcastle University's historic King's Hall. Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, who is best known for her photographs of Byker, was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters. She said: “I thank Newcastle University for bestowing me with this honour.
Today I'm With You (2010)
Amber Films, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen A documentary arising out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Byker Revisited portraits from the different communities that now live on the Byker Wall Estate. Throughout the 1970s Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen documented the terraced streets of Byker, which were demolished to make way for Ralph Erskine’s visionary estate at the end of that decade.
Byker Revisited - Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Between 2003 and 2009, photographer and founder Amber member Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen returned to Byker which she originally documented in the 1970s.
Byker - Amber Collection
Seminal documentation of the community of terraced streets in Newcastle’s East End, demolished to make way for Ralph Erskine-designed Byker Wall Estate in the 1970s. Konttinen, a founder member of the Amber collective moved to Byker when the group came to NE England in 1969. She lived there until 1976, when her own flat was demolished. In 1983 Amber released a film of the same name and the work was also published in book form.
Home Sweet Home - Photographs courtesy of Rencontres d’Arles | Text by Sophie Wright | LensCulture
In a landmark exhibition at this edition of Rencontres d’Arles, thirty artists take us on a journey through Britain’s turbulent recent history through the lens of the most humble and familiar starting point: the home. How much can a photograph of home convey? What lies beyond the banal objects, habits and routines that litter our everyday space?
Les Rencontres d’Arles 2019: 15 mostre imperdibili
Fino al 1970, Arles è stata nota per il suo anfiteatro romano e i dipinti di Vincent van Gogh. Cinquant’anni dopo, questa cittadina nel sud della Francia è anche sinonimo di fotografia con il suo festival Les Rencontres d’Arles: qui espongono nomi di spicco e talenti emergenti nei luoghi storici, e spesso anche meno noti, durante il periodo estivo.
Scotswood Road - Amber Collection
Jimmy Forsyth A working class, Newcastle community, increasingly facing demolitions and redevelopment, documented in the 1950s and early 60s by a photographer who was part of the community. Originally from Barry in South Wales, Forsyth lost an eye in an industrial accident and took up photography, buying a camera at a pawn shop. He embarked on his classic documentation of Newcastle’s West End in 1954, aware of the imminent radical changes.
Byker (1983) - Amber Collection
Amber Films, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen A partly dramatised documentary built around Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photographs of the Newcastle terraced community, demolished to make way for the Byker Wall. Konttinen, a founder member of the Amber collective moved to Byker when the group came to NE England in 1969. She lived there until 1976, when her own flat was demolished.
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