“When the pressures of earning her living intensify, she swallows her prescribed tranquillisers and then slashes her arms with nails, razors or pen-knives,” photographer Tish Murtha wrote of a 20-year-old mother working as a prostitute in 1980s Newcastle. Tish Murtha hoped she could somehow bring about a change by highlighting the impact of poverty on young people’s […]

22 febrero 2018