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T Dan Smith Slides: May Day 1963 © AmberSide Collection

May Day, 1963

AmberSide Collection

April 30th, 2026

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.
OurSide: A Documentary Toolkit

OurSide: A Documentary Toolkit

September 2nd, 2025

Ellen Stone

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Submit your project or research addressing how co-authored film and documentary photography can challenge artistic hierarchies and amplify marginalised and regional voices.