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📣 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/e…

🏙️ 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 @FourCornersE2 shown together. @visitnca, 17 Oct – 29 Nov. Free entry. 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/e…

📸 Explore Newcastle this half term! Join us & @visitnca 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. Sign up: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/e…

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

📸 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/e…

📷 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 NCA (@visitnca), with selected work shown in an exhibition and newspaper. 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/blog/newca…

🏗️ We’re excited to announce the 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/e… @FourCornersE2 @visitnca

⚓ Seagulls and the North Sea, 1989 / 2026. Photographers Peter Fryer and Pete Robinson (@EyeoftheTyne ), 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 (@DebbieToddPhot0), shortlisted for the British Photography Awards with her Appleby Horse Fair portrait of Jimmy. Vote People’s Choice by 15 Oct: britishphotographyawards.org… 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/e…

🏭 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/e…

🎬 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/c…

✊ 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/mysid… 🎉 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 community, the work now returns there for exhibition. ✉️ Let us know your successes: [email protected]

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

🍹 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 many projects there. 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/collection…

📣 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/e…

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