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Trish Murtha captures beguiling images of unemployed youth
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YOUTH unemployment, the bleakly laconic title of a newly published volume of photographs by Trish Murtha, belies her creative engagement and interpretative talent.
She was no privileged, middle-class photographer from the south, slumming it among the northern working classes.
She was born and brought up among the children, the teenagers and families portrayed in the book.
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