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.
Beyond the frame
Explore the people and
stories behind our work
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.
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.
In Focus, Photo Essay
Photographer Richard Simpson shares his experience experimenting using a drone to capture the iconic Hoppings funfair from the sky.
Photo Essay, In Focus
An in focus look at images from the last deep coal mine in England, taken three weeks before the site's closure and the final end of England's deep coal mining industry.
Photo Essay
From Staithes to Porthcawl, discover responses to "MySide: Local Colour" that look at the coast in colour.