Tish Murtha

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tish Murtha
Occupation	British photographer
Date Of Birth	Mar 14, 1956(1956-03-14)
Age	68
Date Of Death	March 13, 2013, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Birthplace	South Shields
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Tish Murtha Biography

Tish Murtha is one of the most popular and richest British photographer who was born on March 14, 1956 in South Shields, England, United Kingdom.

Patricia Anne “Tish” Murtha (14 March 1956 – 13 March 2013) was a British social documentary photographer best known for documenting marginalised communities, social realism and working class life in Newcastle upon Tyne and the North East of England.

This led to the then controversial exhibitions Juvenile Jazz Bands (1979) and Youth Unemployment (1981), which was raised as a subject of debate in the House of Commons. Around this time Murtha was also commissioned to document the campaign Save Scotswood Works (1979) and provided photographs for the THAC (Tyneside Housing Aid Centre) publications Do you know what this is doing to my little girl? – Home Truths in the Year Of The Child (1979) and Burying The Problem (1980), highlighting social poverty on Tyneside.

Tish Murtha Net Worth

Tish Murtha is one of the richest British photographer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tish Murtha 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Murtha was born 1956 in South Shields, North East England. In 1976, aged 20, she left home to study at the School of Documentary Photography at The University of Wales, Newport, set up by Magnum Photos member David Hurn. After graduating in 1978, she returned to Newcastle and set out to document “marginalized communities from the inside” – unlike other photographers who came to document social poverty in the region at the time Murtha didn’t just document it, she actually lived it, as the third of ten children of Irish descent, brought up in a council house in Elswick, she captured the lives of her friends, family and the community around her while herself on a job scheme for the unemployed.

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Posthumously, Murtha’s work was included in the group exhibitions True/Grit – A Celebration of Northern Realism (2013), For Ever Amber (2015). and Childhoods – 1977 to 2016 (2016).

Facts & Trivia

Toby Ranked on the list of most popular British photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Tish Murtha celebrates birthday on March 14 of every year.

The posthumously published books of her work are Youth Unemployment (2017) and Elswick Kids (2018).