In Focus
When does an image become a documentary portrait and not just documentary photography?
Beyond the frame
Explore the people and
stories behind our work
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.
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Revisiting The Dorman Long Collection: Building of the Tyne Bridge
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Our Curatorial Assistant, Frances Campbell, takes a dive into the collection and explores a series of photographs documenting the Appleby Horse Fair.
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This Father's Day we take a closer look at Peter Fryer's complex and intimate project "Fathers", 1998-2000.
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Stories of Newcastle's Quayside Market bustle, merchant patter, and iconic bridges, seen first as a boy in the 40s and then revisited as a young photographer in the 70s.
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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.
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Learn how Amber Film & Photography Collective helped protect Newcastle’s Quayside in the 1970s, blending art and activism to preserve its historic architecture.
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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
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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.
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A look at Christmas in the AmberSide Collection, showing how people create warmth and meaning through small rituals across different places, lives and circumstances.