Sirkka-Liisa is a photographer who visited Byker to take photographs of the working class community who lived there for an exhibition and a book. Her photographs are a real eye opener into the poverty that happens around the UK. She revisited the location in 2003, 40 years after she first visited to re document what she discovered and how things had changed. Some people she photographed as part of the original project, which is really interesting because you got to see how they had developed and had families and grown old. The project took her 6 years and was developed with a total of 100 individuals and families in mind, "sharing of heritage and experience in a fractured community". I find her photographs inspiring, as they document how times have changed over a long period of times, however, the poverty still remains unchanged, however much the government tried to redevelop the neighbourhood.
http://www.amber-online.com/exhibitions/byker-revisited/detail
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