Byker Zoe childerley at school with David Sims

at school with David Sims

registering strange and peripheral details: a sealed cardboard box

shunning any tidy packaging of the world into perfect images

especially if you’ve only just got here

Byker Zoe childerley at school with David SimsFirst Bloodaxe edition of Byker by Sirkka Liisa Konttinen. Second impression. Medium format softback in fine condition. About These photographs, and the accompanying text, chronicle much more than the tragedy of a single community in one northern English town; they evoke an entire culture. Sirkka Liisa Konttinen lived in the old Byker area of Newcastle for six years, and photographed it for twelve. 'One way or another I had grown to be part of my