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 …
It was during the 1980s when 68-year-old Steve Ellwood started taking photographs of Newcastle’s architecture. “As a result of the mass demolition of buildings in Newcastle to make way for the Eldon Square Shopping Centre, I started to find it difficult to recall some of the buildings that I had witnessed pre 1970s,” he says. …
Thomas Jackson is a full-time photographer who specialises in capturing live events. A former software developer for the NHS (‘photography is a lot more interesting!’), the County Durham-bred and now Gateshead-dwelling 42-year-old is the top man at Tynesight Media. Although he can’t remember the first photo he took for sure, there’s an old pack of …
Nobody could have been more delighted than Jim Donnelly to win this year’s Northumberland Open exhibition — the first photographer to do so and at the first time of entering. He received his prize in front of a large preview audience in Woodhorn Museum’s Workshop Galleries. Rowan Brown, chief executive of Museums Northumberland, called it …
John Millard, 52 is a former climbing instructor and professional editorial photographer of more than 25 years. He was introduced to the joy of capturing the world by his dad who was an ‘avid amateur and very talented‘ photographer but while he can remember taking the first photo he ever took, he never actually saw …
Ross Millard, 41 is a guitarist and songwriter in The Futureheads, a printmaker and a photographer. He’s also puts together the Summer Streets festival in his native Sunderland. An upcoming exhibition of his photographs at community cultural venue, Pop Recs Ltd got our attention, so we thought we’d ask Ross if he’d be so kind …
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