Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Sirkka-Liisa Roberts MBE (née Konttinen; born 1948) is a Finnish photographer who has worked in Britain since the 1960s.

Intending to pursue photography as a career, she was apprenticed to a fashion photographer in Helsinki for a year.

[6] Konttinen studied photography in London in the 1960s, and cofounded the Amber collective, which moved to the northeast of England in 1969.

This resulted in the book Byker,[7] which in David Alan Mellor's words "bore witness to her intimate embeddedness in the locality".

[12] Three years of photographing the beach between Seaham and Hartlepool resulted in the series "Coal Coast".