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📸 Only 8 places left on our photowalk! Join us & Newcastle Contemporary Art starting at the exhibition "Under Development" before photographing the city together. 📅 Sat 31, Oct 1–3pm No experience needed, bring a camera or camera phone. 🔗 Sign up: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

📷 Some great photos by local street photographer Jan Panke, inside "Under Development" at Newcastle Contemporary Art. An exhibition of 50+ years of documentary photography from Tyneside and East London, asking who shapes our changing cities. Free until 29 Nov. 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

📣 Event Reminder!! InSide returns in September: a space to share documentary work, ask questions, talk through sticking points and swap news and opportunities. 📅 Monday 19th October 2026, 6–8pm 📍 Gosforth Civic Theatre 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🏙️ The signs are up, and we open tomorrow! "Under Development" brings together photography from Tyneside and East London, with work from the AmberSide Collection and Four Corners Archive shown together. Newcastle Contemporary Arts, 17 Oct – 29 Nov. Free entry. 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

📸 Explore Newcastle this half term! Join us & Newcastle Contemporary Art for a family photowalk, starting at the exhibition "Under Development" before photographing the city together. 📅 Sat 31, Oct 1–3pm No experience needed, bring a camera or camera phone. RSVP: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/eve...

📷 In 1974, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen photographed Tyneside's shop windows, recording taste, enterprise and the character of its high streets. What would you document today? Under 25? "Newcastle Now": sidegallery.co.uk/blog/newc... All ages: MySide's "Changing Places": sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

📸 InSide returns this October: a space to share documentary work, ask questions, talk through sticking points and swap news and opportunities. 📅 Monday 19th October 2026, 6–8pm 📍 Gosforth Civic Theatre 🔗 More info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

📷 Show us Newcastle now. We’re inviting young people to photograph the city as they see it. No fancy kit needed, a phone is fine. Part of Under Development at Newcastle Contemporary Art (NCA), with selected work shown in an exhibition and newspaper. Submit: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/newc...

🏗️ We’re excited to announce the upcoming exhibition: Under Development Opening Oct 17 at Newcastle Contemporary Arts, it brings together the AmberSide Collection and Four Corners Archive to ask what happens when cities change? 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

⚓ Seagulls and the North Sea, 1989 / 2026. Photographers Peter Fryer and Pete Robinson, 37 years apart, both at sea with North Shields fishing crews. Different boats, workers and photographers. The same waters, being worked across generations.

🎉 A belated Side Shout Out for Debbie Todd, shortlisted for the British Photography Awards with her Appleby Horse Fair portrait of Jimmy. Vote People’s Choice by 15 Oct: britishphotographyawards.or... Well done to everyone shortlisted!

📣 Event Reminder!! InSide returns in September: a space to share documentary work, ask questions, talk through sticking points and swap news and opportunities. 📅 Tuesday 22nd September 2026, 6–8pm 📍 Gosforth Civic Theatre 🔗 More info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🏭 ON NOW in Paisley: “Industrial Epic”. Photography and film from the AmberSide Collection trace the working landscapes of North East shipyards, factories, refineries and mines. 📍 Refractive at The Liberal Club 📅 Until 7 Nov 🎟️ Free 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🎬 Starting tomorrow and running all weekend: “Voices From Here” brings six decades of Amber Films to Durham Folk Festival. 📍 Redhills Durham Miners Hall 📅 18 to 20 Sept 🕐 1 to 4pm daily 🎟️ Free More info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

✊ We’re celebrating John Walmsley’s work with a selection of his documentary zines in the Side Shop Online. This image comes from “The Sit-in at Guildford School of Art”, made from his photographs of the 1968 student protest. 🛍️ Explore the full range: shorturl.at/CtFo1

🏃 We’re celebrating the Great North Run and the community around it with a special MySide blog from photographer Maria Maza who has been photographing the run since 2018. 🔗 Read the blog: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/mysi... 🎉 Good luck to everyone running today 🎉

📣 Side Shout Out: Steve Huntsman’s “Seaton Sluice Community Project” opens this October. Made over the summer in the Northumberland coastal village between Whitley Bay and Blyth, the work now returns there for exhibition. ✉️ Let us know your successes: side.gallery@amber-online.com

🏭 An epic made of smoke, steel, heat and labour. Opening 15 September in Paisley, “Industrial Epic” brings together photography and film from the AmberSide Collection, tracing the working landscapes of shipyards, factories, refineries and mines. 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🍹 Paradise, according to Bacardi. North Shields, according to Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. There’s a whole social world in the gap between the billboard and the street below it. 📷 North Shields from “Step by Step”, 1980s ©Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

📷 “Anybody with cameras down there would be chased.” But Mik Critchlow had an in: his cousin Trevor was a seacoaler. So what could have been a one-off visit was instead years of returning to Lynemouth and the start of Amber’s relationship with the community. 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

📣 Extended due to popular demand: “Planned Space, Lived Place” now closes this Saturday, 12 September. Last few days to see Side’s exhibition on New Towns and planned communities at the Farrell Centre, Newcastle. Free entry. 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

📣 Side Shout Out: Sasha Mallo Tardiveau’s "Terminus" is getting noticed, with profiles from BBC News and the Newcastle Chronicle. Made on the Tyne and Wear Metro as the old fleet disappeared, it’s a sharp record of a region in motion. See it on Side Online: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/term...

🎒 Starting school is a big thing when you’re small. Markéta Luskačová’s "The First Year at School", shown at Side in 1989, captured the vulnerability, excitement & exhaustion of children beginning school in Britain. Vintage poster available from the Side Online Shop: shop.amber-online.com/produ...

📣 InSide returns in September: a space to share documentary work, ask questions, talk through sticking points and swap news and opportunities. 📅 Tuesday 22nd September 2026, 6–8pm 📍 Gosforth Civic Theatre 🔗 More info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

⏰ Final week of free Amber Film screenings at The Common Room! 📍 The Common Room, Newcastle upon Tyne 📅 27 July – 4 September 2026 🎟️ Free More info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🚉 176 years ago today, Queen Victoria officially opened Newcastle Central Station. These 1971 photographs show two sides of a building that helped reshape Newcastle: John Dobson’s grand city-facing frontage, and behind it, the platforms, tracks and great curved roofs of a working railway.

📣 Got good news? We want to shout about it! Every Friday we share a recent win from the photography community: a finished project, exhibition, publication, prize or something you’re proud of. Submit by sending an image, handles + short note to side.gallery@amber-online.com

🚇 Before the Tyne and Wear Metro became part of our everyday landscape, Isabella Jedrzejczyk photographed the Byker Viaduct taking shape above the Ouseburn in 1979. A record of a region being physically reshaped and connected by new infrastructure. 🔗 Explore more: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

☀️ MySide: On The Move Jump in, climb out, squeeze through the barriers, climb the bridge, repeat. Oscar Jenkins caught this summer ritual at Canal Saint-Martin during Paris’s June heatwave. Show us how people move through your world. Submit to MySide: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

📰 “We’re occupied. We’ve been occupied by the police.” 42 years ago, Easington was the front line of the Miners' Strike. Keith Pattison’s photographs show what that meant for the families living there. 🔗 Read about the series on the Side blog: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/easi...

📣 Congratulations to Hazel Plater, Pete Robinson & Andrew Pounder, all selected for “BALTIC Open Submission 2026”. We're proud to see work from our local photography community shared on such a large scale. 🔗 baltic.art/whats-on/v8D-bal... Send your wins: side.gallery@amber-online.com

🎬 Side joins Whitley Bay Film Festival on 19 September for two Amber dramas celebrating North Shields writer Tom Hadaway. “The Filleting Machine” + “In Fading Light” 📍 Cullercoats Fishermen’s Mission 🎟️ £7 per film Read more and book: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/cinema/whitley-bay-film-festival-2026

🏗️ 100 years ago Gateshead was being reshaped for the Tyne Bridge. Taken 18 August 1926, this Dorman Long photograph shows workers cutting and rebuilding the roads that would form the bridge’s southern approach. Highlighting the scale of change happening at street level.

📷 When Martín Chambi’s portrait entered AmberSide in the 1970s, it was captioned “Indian from Paruro”. Elsewhere, “Giant of Paruro”. But his name was Juan de la Cruz Sihuana. Collections need active care. Keep the history, question the language, restore what was left out.

📷 Last chance to visit "Lanchester – A Community in Focus" today! The documentary exhibition is open at Lanchester Community Centre until 2pm today. With work by Mark Wilkinson, Chris Bruce, Juan Fitzgerald and George Ledger. 📣 Today’s everyday lives are tomorrow’s history.

⚡ How can a still photograph feel in motion? Our new blog, Still Moving, explores blur, balance and split-second timing through the AmberSide Collection, alongside the current MySide theme On the Move. 📖 Read more: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/stil...

📣 Got good news? We want to shout about it! Every Friday we share a recent win from the photography community: a finished project, exhibition, publication, prize or something you’re proud of. Submit by sending an image, handles + short note to side.gallery@amber-online.com

🏙️ Looking back at Newcastle in 1971, we were struck by the blackened buildings. These Lambton Visual Aids slides catch the city mid-clean: some façades pale, others still carrying decades of coal smoke and industrial soot. How have you seen your city change over time?

🔥 In the final week of Sunderland’s National Glass Centre, Juan Fitzgerald photographed a place still full of heat, skill and public feeling. 📷 National Glass Centre, Sunderland, 2026 ©Juan Fitzgerald 📰 Photographing an important event in our region? Submit to side.gallery@amber-online.com

🧭 Turn left at the blue window. Keep going past the sign. You’ll know it when you see it. Our new blog, "Unlikely Landmarks", looks at a curated selection from our last open call MySide: Local Colour and the everyday details that become local markers. Read now: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/mysi...

📷 InSide returns in August: a relaxed space to share documentary work, ask questions, talk through sticking points and swap news and opportunities. 📆 Wednesday 19 August, 6–8pm 📍 Gosforth Civic Theatre More info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🌧️ August may be holiday season, but at sea the work carried on. For Side’s 1987 commission "Seafarers", Mik Critchlow returned to working ships to record the labour and uncertainty of a profession under threat. See more: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

🏳️‍🌈 Looking back to last weekend, when Newcastle Pride filled Leazes Park and the city streets with running, marching, colour, noise and joy. All photographs © David Whinham. Recording an important North East moment? Send it to side.gallery@amber-online.com

💎 SIDE SHOUT OUTS: CONGRATS... Sasha Mallo Tardiveau and Hazel Plater gave themselves one hour to photograph Antwerp’s diamond district - their new 28-page zine was released this week! 🛍️ shop.amber-online.com/produ... 🎉 Share you're success: side.gallery@amber-online.com

📷 OPEN CALL: MySide – On the Move MySide is Side’s open call for photographs of everyday life. Show us journeys, work, play, care and the inventive ways people get around. Phone or camera. Everyone welcome. Deadline 30 Sept. 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🌊 86 years ago today, Weegee photographed Coney Island at 4pm, from on top of the lifeguard station. Humorous and recognisable - the seaside promise is simple: cooler air, open space, a break from the city. The reality is that everyone else has had the same excellent idea.

⚠️ Plastic made to become something else is becoming part of the coast line. Hazel Plater’s new photo essay records the nurdle clean-up in South Shields explores the pollution, its environmental impact and the people responding. Read more: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/nurdles...

🎬 Side is working with The Common Room on Heritage on Screen, bringing films from the AmberSide Collection into the historic Lecture Theatre. 📍 The Common Room, Newcastle upon Tyne 📅 27 July – 4 September 2026 🎟️ Free Dates & times : sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🌱 Pride is protest, party, friendship, care, and sometimes a very good allotment. For Newcastle Pride, we’re sharing images from TopSoil, a queer gardening project run by The NewBridge Project. A space for community, safety, soil, pond life, fruit trees, and turning up as yourself. ©possy / ©Chan

📣 Side Shout Outs: Congratulations go to Neil Ferdowsian! Neil’s photographs "Vendor" and "Partners" have been selected for Carlotta Gallery’s online "Europe" exhibition. Find Neil on instagram: nfphotocraft Send your wins for next Friday's shout out to: side.gallery@amber-online.com