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A Note on the Artworks

In 1980, the twenty-four-year-old British photographer Tish Murtha wrote an article about the Thatcher government’s disinvestment in the young people of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. “No established channels exist to represent or even acknowledge the interests of those involved,”

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