News
Updated frequently asked questions about Side's future as we look to the new year.
Beyond the frame
Explore the people and
stories behind our work
A letter from our Managing Director, looking back at the past year and announcing the next phase of Side and Amber's future.
In Focus
A look at Christmas in the AmberSide Collection, showing how people create warmth and meaning through small rituals across different places, lives and circumstances.
In Focus
An closer look at Keith Pattison’s "Every Breath They Take", exploring women’s community care, collective action and the long fight against Monkton cokeworks’ pollution.
In Focus
A 60-year photo story of exploration and the North Sea in the historic rush for ‘black gold’ by father and daughter photographers AJ Stow & LK Stow
Interview
We spoke to photographer Peter Caton about "Unyielding Floods", his four-year project documenting how communities in South Sudan adapt to rising water and live with the reality of a changing climate.
In Focus
Learn how Amber Film & Photography Collective helped protect Newcastle’s Quayside in the 1970s, blending art and activism to preserve its historic architecture.
Photo Essay
Photographs from our MySide open call, exploring how stillness and quiet moments can hold memory, emotion and a sense of belonging.
Video, Interview
Re-release of Lynsey Addario’s 2012 Side talk on "Veiled Rebellion", reflecting on her photographs of women’s lives in Afghanistan and the stories behind the images.
In Focus
Journey into the AmberSide Collection with Fred Mawson’s archive as cycling, socialism and Esperanto postcards reveal a powerful story of working-class friendship and global solidarity.
Photo Essay
Photographer Antonio Balisciano shares his series "Beneath Vesuvius" as a photo essay exploring shared moments of leisure on the shoreline in Naples, Italy.