Presented as part of Durham Book Festival 2024
A working-class photographer captures the impact of Thatcherism on the North of England but is unable to escape the poverty and inequality she exposed.
Tish Murtha used her camera to expose societal inequality. She believed she had an obligation to the people and problems within her local community in the North East, and that documentary photography could highlight and challenge the social disadvantages that she herself had suffered. This film is a journey of exploration for Ella Murtha, as both daughter and custodian of the Tish Murtha archive, and a chance to elevate and preserve a legacy that has been lost and to tell the story of an artist and woman – from the people who knew Tish, and the images she left behind.
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