An exhibition of photographs taken by Newcastle Journal photographer Jayne Emsley during a trip to Africa has helped to raise more than £3,000 for charity WaterAid.

Jayne and Journal reporter Graeme Whitfield visited Malawi in April to highlight the devastating effect dirty water is having on the population and the efforts to improve conditions by WaterAid.

The pair spent a week in the country, seeing the charity's work first-hand, and some of Jayne's pictures from the trip last month went on display at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.

The five-day exhibition attracted more than 7,500 visitors and raised £3,000 for charity.

Sales of prints of Jayne's pictures raised £1,500 and a further £500 was raised from sales of bottled water at the event.

Visitors also donated a total of £1,000 which they put in a toilet 'wishing well' that was placed in the exhibition to highlight the importance of sanitation in the Third World.

Jayne told HoldtheFrontPage: "It's brilliant.

"We visited lots of villages, some with access to clean water and some with no access to clean water to see the differences between the two.

"The villagers that didn't have clean water had to go to nearby rivers that were quite contaminated so there were lots of diseases and the children didn't look very well."

She said having no access to clean water also affected children's education as they sometimes had to go and collect water when they should be at school.

She also took a photograph of a woman who had been attacked by a crocodile while getting water from a river, and had lost the use of her hand.