Amateur Photographer

Tish Murtha Works 1976–1991

Source:   Karen on overturned chair,1980  

‘Looking through each of these projects, you can see that Murtha was deeply humanitarian’

Elswick Kids, 1978

Ex-miner in the New Found Out pub, Newport, Wales,1977

Perhaps one of the most exciting things to come out of any genre of art – whether it's writing, painting, sculpture or photography – is when you discover a new artist, one who was prolific and noteworthy yet for one reason or another failed to receive proper

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