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The photo volume 'Byker' is the result of a longterm project about forty years. The Finnish photograher Sirkka-Liisa KONTTINEN returned to the place where she lived in the end-70s / beginning 80s for seven years. 'Byker' is a poor residential area of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK.
Content
The photo volume 'Byker revisited' by Sirkka-Liisa KONTTINEN is compilation of portrait photography is a nonjudgmental visual and verbal documentary of a community that is in flux. A community of the poor, the disadvantaged, and the refugees who demonstrate a life-affirming humanity?is captured in both photographs and the residents' own words. This contemporary look at a diverse group of people confined to a tight geographical region of a city affirms a commonality in the hopes and aspirations to be found in deprived communities around the globe. Ugliness and beauty come together in forty years' worth of stunning and complex photographs.