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.

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.

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

Announcement of a National Lottery Heritage Fund-supported partnership with Newcastle University Special Collections to safeguard the AmberSide Collection and expand public access.

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.

From Staithes to Porthcawl, discover responses to "MySide: Local Colour" that look at the coast in colour.

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.