TISH, the reportedly remarkable and gripping documentary on the great but almost forgotten – where have we come across that combination of words before? – photographer Tish Murtha has been on limited release in festivals, cinemas and a couple of online narrowcasters but the BBC broadcast it on 1 April 2024 at 9pm UK time.
After that, we hope, it may be more widely available and we might finally get to see it too.
British documentary photographer Marc Davenant wrote this about TISH:
“Every gatekeeper in every museum and gallery across the country should be required to watch this documentary. It’s an object lesson in how working class talent is sidelined and ignored by the photography establishment and it made me very angry to be honest. Watch it.”
@marcdavenant at X formerly Twitter
Meanwhile I have added some links to interviews and reviews below.
Links
- Northern Soul – TISH: A Compelling Portrait of an Incredible Talent
- The Art Newspaper – ‘The outsider’: a film about the forgotten photographer Tish Murtha to open Sheffield DocFest – may be paywalled
- The Guardian – Interest in working-class photography booms but barriers to industry remain
- The Double Negative – The Big Interview: Tish Producer Jen Corcoran
- The Robert Krasker Project – theartsdesk.com reviews ‘TISH’, posthumous documentary about one of Britain’s greatest social documentary photographers who was ignored, forgotten and even feared by the Establishment, until now – contains a long list of links to articles, reviews and other Web sites.
The Robert Krasker Project 