Overview
North by North East, a comprehensive survey of Macdonald’s oeuvre, delivers from a number of established and renowned projects and unveils lesser-explored yet equally significant facets of his photographic practice, including previously unpublished portraits of teenagers, captured in Northern secondary modern schools, during his time as an Art teacher.
Renowned British photographer Ian Macdonald has spent five decades chronicling the changing face of working-class life in Teesside and the wider Northeast of England. His lens has followed the rise and decline of industry through the creation of an extensive archive of the region, creating a body of work that stands firmly within the tradition of British documentary photography that flourished in the late 1970s and 1980s — a period defined by political upheaval and social change.
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