“I want to take pictures of policemen kicking kids,” replied Tish Murtha, when asked why she wanted to take a Documentary Photography course at college. Needless to say, she was accepted. Murtha then honed her skills and began to document the area she came from and grew up in, Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, an area struggling in the wake of an abrupt loss of industry and imposed purpose. One of her most acclaimed series,Youth Unemployment, accompanied by her 1980 essay, “Youth Unemployment in the West End of Newcastle,” sought to put pressure on both local and national government to respond to the unemployment crisis that was beginning to strip away the potential of an entire new generation of…