Tish Murtha’s searing documentation of broken Britain

Tish Murtha’s searing documentation of broken Britain

Vandalism on a Grand Scale — Capturing youth unemployment and poverty in north-east England during the ’80s, the photographer never lived to see her work published. A new photobook by British Cultural Archive brings her eye-opening work to light. The horrors of Victorian England continued long after the eponymous sovereign’s death, with swaths of the nation struggling against a Dickensian fate well into the 20th century. But photographer Tish Mu…