{"id":8807,"date":"2018-09-23T08:44:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T08:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=8807"},"modified":"2018-09-21T08:49:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T08:49:37","slug":"elswick-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=8807","title":{"rendered":"Elswick Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beautiful work by the late Tish Murtha<\/em>, (1956-2013), immediately after her return to her home in Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne in the late 1970s after studying at Newport to is featured on Flashbak’s article ‘Elswick Kids<\/a>‘. It is work that could only have been made by an exceptional photographer deeply rooted in the community and celebrates the freedom that kids still enjoyed then – something which I remember from my own childhood in a working class area on the fringes of London, but which by the time she made these pictures had largely disappeared in the more affluent south.<\/p>\n

The article comes in advance of a Kickstarter campaign by her daughter Ella together with Bluecoat Press<\/em> to publish ‘Elswick Kids<\/em>‘ which launches at 10.30am on October 2nd 2018. Make a note in your diary now! Their previous collaboration was highly succesfull, with the limited edition of Tish Murtha’s ‘Youth Unemployment<\/em>‘ selling out within three months, and I’m sure this volume will do as well. You can still buy the second paperback edition of Youth Unemployment, and there are also a number of Cafe Royal Books<\/a> available.<\/p>\n

You can see more about Tish Murtha and more of her work on the Official Website of Tish Murtha<\/a> run by her daughter. A retrospective Tish Murtha: Works 1976-1991<\/em><\/a> is at the Photographers Gallery<\/em> in London until October 18th 2018 and some of her pictures are also among the most interesting work in the Museum of London show ‘London Nights<\/em><\/a>‘, which runs until 11th November 2018.<\/p>\n

Also worth reading is an article on AnOther,<\/em> The Forgotten Photographer Who Captured Britain\u2019s Social Crises<\/a>, by Belle Hutton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beautiful work by the late Tish Murtha, (1956-2013), immediately after her return to her home in Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne in the late 1970s after studying at Newport to is featured on Flashbak’s article ‘Elswick Kids‘. It is work that could only have been made by an exceptional photographer deeply rooted in the community and … Continue reading Elswick Kids<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8812,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807\/revisions\/8812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}