A PHOTOGRAPHER who has captured the changing face of a North-East city over the past 50 years is celebrating his 90th birthday with an exhibition of his work.

Newcastle City Library is hosting an exhibition of pictures by award-winning photographer Jimmy Forsyth.

It includes photographs of the Royal Arcade, the old Scotswood Bridge and the Quayside and the Baltic during the days when the River Tyne was still an industrial area.

Anna Flowers, publications manager at Tyne Bridge Publishing, who has helped organise the exhibition, said: "Jimmy felt he had a mission to document the streets and landmarks of Newcastle before they were swept away by the developers of the 1960s.

"His work is a unique portrait of a vanished and much-missed way of life."

A book called Out of One Eye: The Photography of Jimmy Forsyth has been produced by Tyne Bridge Publishing, which is part of Newcastle's Library and Information Service.

The exhibition runs until Saturday, August 16, at Caf Culture, Newcastle City Library.

Staff will be throwing a party for Mr Forsyth at his library, in Cruddas Park Shopping Centre, on Friday, August 15.

The photographer will cut a camera-shaped cake and be reunited with some of the people who have featured in his photographs.