The jumping girl

the very beginning of my passion for photography.
Thomas Ruff at first.
but.
have a look.


Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
"Sirkka is perhaps best known for her book ‘Byker’ of 1983, a seminal portrait of the terraced Newcastle community, eventually bulldozed to make way for the Byker Wall and the wholesale redevelopment of the area. She began her project in 1969, when she moved to the North East of England and lived in Byker for seven years, until her own house was demolished."

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Girl on a 'spacehopper'
Janet Street backlane 1971