News
Learn more about how Amber Education is using photography, film and local knowledge to bring North East history into the classroom.
Beyond the frame
Explore the people and
stories behind our work
An open call for young people to photograph Newcastle as they see it in 2026, with selected work exhibited at High Bridge Works and published in an accompanying newspaper.
Photo Essay, Online Exhibition
Photographer Maria Maza looks beyond the runners to the crowds, costumes, signs and roadside rituals that make the Great North Run a portrait of North East community.
In Focus
Police lines, family homes, children in the street. Keith Pattison’s photographs show what it meant to live through the Miners’ Strike when the front line ran through your village.
Video
Watch "What Happened Here?" alongside its 2020 digital event, bringing archive, testimony and community voices together to revisit Easington, the Miners’ Strike and what followed.
In Focus
How can a still photograph hold movement? Using images from the AmberSide Collection, we explore blur, timing, balance and context in documentary photography.
Photo Essay
A curated selection from MySide: Local Colour exploring the odd, familiar details that become local landmarks, from signs and tracks to the views people use to find their way.
News, Photo Essay
Hazel Plater photographs the South Shields nurdle clean-up, recording the slow human work of removing an industrial spill as it spreads through the coastline.
In Focus
Visual artist and photographer Monica Dhaka on India’s mud wrestling, social and personal heritage, soil, and the body.
News
Announcement of a National Lottery Heritage Fund-supported partnership with Newcastle University Special Collections to safeguard the AmberSide Collection and expand public access.