CAROLYN SCOTT Rye Hill, Newcastle 1968

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CAROLYN SCOTT Rye Hill, Newcastle 1968

CAROLYN SCOTT Rye Hill, Newcastle 1968 The Watchers is a Café Royal Books publication.

Rye Hill, Newcastle 1968 was published in 2022, is 14cm x 20cm and has 36 black and white pages. This is the first edition.

Rye Hill, Newcastle

Newcastle upon Tyne was a hugely important industrial city, world-renowned for shipbuilding and the coal industry. In the 20th century, coal exports and shipbuilding declined dramatically, resulting in the change of Rye Hill district, on the West side of the city, from Victorian, middle-class affluence, to an area regarded as a slum.

In the spring of 1968 Carolyn Scott photographed on the streets close to where she lived on West Parade. Originally from Edinburgh, Carolyn now lives in North East Fife.

This series of photographs is held at the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums.

Café Royal Books

Café Royal Books is an independent publishing house set up by Craig Atkinson in 2005. He is based in Southport, England. CRB release regular publications with the broad subject of British Documentary Photography since 1960. This includes international photographers who work within the British Isles. Alongside photographers from the British Isles who work internationally. There are a few exceptions, with titles that sit alongside this general theme.

This type of work has historically been neglected by both photographers and institutions. Café Royal Books’ aim is to source, gather, and re/present this work as a collective whole. And, thus, giving it a wider audience. CRB publishes at least one title every week, presenting one series by one photographer.

The books combine elements of zines, photobooks, artist books and educational resource. The books are affordable, democratic, utilitarian and useful. They come out regularly and in small editions. So, great to collect.

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