The filmmaker returned home to shoot Stepney Western by taking cue from the archives of Tish Murtha, Mik Critchlow and Chris Killip
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Sam Wright’s new book, Pillar to Post, offers a tender portrayal of the stereotyped community in the UK and Ireland through collaborative storytelling
Together with Bluecoat Press, the Bradford-born photographer is crowdfunding to publish his long-term documentation of the northern city
“Tish believed that photography was an important form of visual communication that could stimulate discussions about real life situations and captured accurate records of the world we live in. She was trying to force people to look at the truth and learn from it,” explains Ella Murtha, the daughter of the documentary photographer. In honour of her mother’s memory, Ella has put together a new photobook, Youth Unemployment, which gathers Tish Murtha’s work photographing poverty-ridden communities in Newcastle in the 70s and 80s. Raw, powerful and emotional, Murtha has captured youngsters trying to survive turbulent economic times, when they had limited prospects – something which has recently come full circle as a new generation has had to deal with the global financial crisis.
