The posthumous recognition that photographer Tish Murtha has received - and continues to receive - is, inevitably, bittersweet. While ideally she would have experienced acclaim during her lifetime, it's nevertheless gratifying to know that her pictures of Newcastle - grittily realistic, but also empathetic and often capturing resilience and hope - are connecting with people of all ages.
As her daughter Ella says, she would no doubt have been honoured to learn that local schoolchildren have won a competition to name a sheltered housing scheme in Elswick after her - probably more so than to discover that her work is now widely praised and prized within the art world.
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