Byker Zoe childerley especially if you’ve only just

especially if you’ve only just got here

registering strange and peripheral details: a sealed cardboard box

the clinic of Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa

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

first published in 2013

Byker Zoe childerley especially if you’ve only justFirst 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