Photographer Maria Maza looks beyond the runners to the crowds, costumes, signs and roadside rituals that make the Great North Run a portrait of North East community.

Photographer Sasha Mallo Tardiveau explores the life-cycle of Tyne and Wear Metro

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.

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.

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.

Photographer Matt MacPake shares his project one of Scotland's oldest and most emotionally charged traditions: the Langholm Common Riding.