Developed for Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s exhibition BYKER REVISITED, which opened at Side Gallery in September 2009, this two part interview with the photographer explores the development of the work, from her seminal documentation of the old community of Byker in the 1970s to the portrait and landscape project she began in the Byker Wall Estate in 2003. In Part One she talks about the earlier work, in Part Two about the new work. Amber’s new documentary TODAY I’M WITH YOU, which grew out of Sirkka’s Byker Revisited work, is broadcast on BBC4 (Sun 12 Sept, 8pm and on BBC i-player during in the following week) as part of its Newcastle night. SIDETV NEWCASTLE MONTH