Byker Zoe childerley shunning any tidy packaging of

shunning any tidy packaging of the world into perfect images

My photographs ultimately become a conversation between the familiar and the unexpected

minor wear to the book jacket

consists of a series of still life

registering strange and peripheral details: a sealed cardboard box

Byker Zoe childerley shunning any tidy packaging ofFirst 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