Meerkat Films, 2009, 3 mins

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is a founding member of the Amber collective and Girl on a Spacehopper is one of her classic photographs – taken on the streets of Byker in 1971, just two years after the group settled in the North East and began the work that has continued ever since. In 2012 she began creating the prints, now on display at New York’s L Parker Stephenson gallery - better than the ones she made while learning her craft in the 70s - but in 2009 she revisited the darkroom with the legendary New York printer Sid Kaplan and this short film by Meerkat captures their work on the celebrated picture.