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.

How can a still photograph hold movement? Using images from the AmberSide Collection, we explore blur, timing, balance and context in documentary photography.

Visual artist and photographer Monica Dhaka on India’s mud wrestling, social and personal heritage, soil, and the body.

Photographer Richard Simpson shares his experience experimenting using a drone to capture the iconic Hoppings funfair from the sky.

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.

Take a look T. Dan Smith’s May Day photographs of Newcastle, where labour politics, union pride and civic life all met at a parade.

An in focus look at "Working the Landscape: Images of Frosterley", 1984, by Darlington Media Group. Exploring a quarrying village in County Durham and how collective photography shaped its representation.

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.

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.

What does a kiss reveal? This selection from the AmberSide Collection traces intimacy, care and belonging across decades of documentary photography.