TISH Q&A

Community Screening Q&A: TISH

Local Cinema Programme, Craigmillar Now | 2024

On Monday 18th December 2024, the first community screening of TISH, was hosted by the local arts and heritage centre Craigmillar Now.

The screening explored the legacy of Tish Murtha, a visionary photographer documenting working-class communities in Northeast England and London’s Soho during the 1970s and 1980sThe event drew a strong connection with the Craigmillar community, who resonated with Murtha’s experiences of working-class life and the social and economic upheavals under post-Thatcherism, reflecting their own histories of industrial decline. Craigmillar Now also highlighted the alignment with photographer Sandra George, whose archive they care for - George, like Murtha, largely unknown in her lifetime, passed away at the same age and year as Tish, also leaving her archive to her only child.

McLachlan facilitated discussion with director Paul Syn, and the local community exploring these parallels and the personal and communal resonance of Murtha’s work.