Byker Revisited fishing capturing the quiet intensity of

capturing the quiet intensity of belief and the rituals that sustained rural communities

including work by Russell Lee

Who’s Next

hand-painted signs and porch-front produce

in Gateshead

Byker Revisited fishing capturing the quiet intensity ofA portrait of life in the Byker Wall Estate, capturing the changing community that replaced the original streets Konttinen photographed in the 1970s. Between 2003 and 2009, Sirkka Liisa Konttinen returned to Byker, the Newcastle community she had first photographed in the 1970s. Her earlier work documented the terraced streets where she lived, before they were demolished to make way for the Byker Wall Estate. Byker Revisited focuses on the people