Interview
Richard Simpson introduces his documentary practice, from early influences to his life in the North East, reflecting on long-term projects shaped by local communities and landscapes as they change.
Beyond the frame
Explore the people and
stories behind our work
Explore an in focus presentation of French photojournalist Robert Munoz’s street photographs from the 1970s to early 1990s, where young people reveal the energy, risk and politics of public space.
Interview
In our new MySide interview, James Sebright discusses his project The Body & The Blood, reflecting on visual language, and photographing Smithfield Meat Market during the slow process of change.
In Focus
Take an in focus look at Alison Johansson’s project Tearing Down Walls, documenting the final days of Glasgow’s Caledonia Road flats and the traces of domestic life left behind.
Interview
For our latest MySide interview, Scott Smith, aka The Bearded Skot, talks documenting the Newcastle University Gaza encampment from within, and building a record shaped by care and responsibility.
Photo Essay
A photo essay on Lynemouth’s shifting coast, where coal, waste and sea collide. Photographer Joseph Wilson pairs new images with lost industrial archives to confront energy, labour and erasure.
In Focus
What does a kiss reveal? This selection from the AmberSide Collection traces intimacy, care and belonging across decades of documentary photography.
Interview
For MySide, Adam Monaghan reflects on his long-term work in Suvilahti, Helsinki, and what it means to document places shaped by culture, access, and change.
Photo Essay
Photographer Matt MacPake shares his project one of Scotland's oldest and most emotionally charged traditions: the Langholm Common Riding.
In Focus
When change doesn't look like spectacle - A look at Dana Kyndrová's photographs of Soviet soldiers during their withdrawal from Czechoslovakia, part of her series "The Russians".
Video, Interview
A new film by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Peter Roberts brings Dunston Staiths back into view as a working place, using 1973 photographs alongside footage of the Staiths today.