TISH, the new Tish Murtha documentary about the celebrated Tyneside photographer 

Children playing on derelict streets, workers drinking pints after mass layoffs and disaffected youths hanging around wastelands… Tish Murtha's images of working-class life in North East England can be found in the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain. She started taking pictures of people in her own community in the West end of Newcastle in the 1970's. Although these days she is feted today as one of the country’s most important social documentary photographers, in her lifetime Murtha struggled to make a living and died penniless a decade ago at the age of 56. Her daughter has now made a film about her mother's life and work with director Paul Sng (Poly Styrene: I Am a cliché). She has been talking to Sharuna Sagar about this labour of love.