Under a pervasive atmosphere of violence, homeless hostel residents live side by side but in isolation. Derek, seldom leaving his room and haunted by the spectre of the family he lost, lives without the safety nets most of us take for granted. Significant life choices — involving financial difficulties, mental and physical health — are …
While Helen Rowlands’ family may have guessed photography would come calling one day (“I’d always be the one holding up my family taking photos on holiday with my phone”) it was a message from an Instagram follower during lockdown that kicked her hobby on to the next level. “During the pandemic I was posting old …
The past few weeks have seen the puffins settling back into their Farne Island burrows off the Northumberland coast as they prepare for breeding season. Photographer Wil Cheung was eager to set foot back on Inner Farne after bird flu forced two years of having to capture its wonderful wildlife from the water. “It’s been …
Born in Sunderland and raised in Easington during the 1980s, Paul vividly remembers walking past the picket lines every day on his way to school. The same picket line was captured in the iconic photographs by Keith Pattison who documented the Miners’ Strike. Seeing Keith’s photographs years later inspired Paul to become a documentary photographer. …
You’ll notice there’s a distinct and tuneful theme to this week’s feature. Adam Kennedy is an internationally-published music photographer and writer from Houghton-le-Spring. Now living in Newcastle – where he is currently one of the in-house photographers at the 02 City Hall – if you’ve been at a North East gig over the past decade …
It was an Eternal concert at Newcastle City Hall in 1994 which first got Victoria Wai into photography, but it wasn’t until 2019 that she made it her job. “After years of having a day job to pay the bills where I was getting more discontent I finally bit the bullet,” says the South Shields-born …
If you were one of the tens of thousands of fans who flocked to St James Park in the heady days of Keegan, Shearer, Tino and Darren Peacock, then you may well be the star of a new photo collection. Lower Block specialise in publishing books, photo zines and prints that aim to celebrate football …
April 1 is the date chosen by the BBC for the screening of the engrossing documentary about photographer Tish Murtha who died in 2013 on the eve of her 57th birthday. Director Paul Sng, via Zoom, wryly recalls his first reaction to the news. “Are you sure?” But it was no April Fools wind-up. It’s …
At the end of last year, a series of screenings of a film called Tish packed out Tyneside Cinema. Ahead of its small screen premiere on BBC4 next month (April), here’s what David Whetstone had to say about it*. *This is how the review appeared on Cultured. North East in November. Any references to remaining …
Travelling gave Topher McGrillis his first taste of the joys of digital photography, sowing the seeds for a passion which would become part of his professional career. Up until that point, his big passion had been film-making . “I was always obsessed with playing with my friends’ camcorders growing up but didn’t get my first …
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