In Focus, Photo Essay
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.
Beyond the frame
Explore the people and
stories behind our work
From Staithes to Porthcawl, discover responses to "MySide: Local Colour" that look at the coast in colour.
In Focus
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.
In Focus, Online Exhibition
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.
In Focus
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.
In Focus
What does a kiss reveal? This selection from the AmberSide Collection traces intimacy, care and belonging across decades of documentary photography.
In Focus
When change doesn't look like spectacle - A look at Dana Kyndrová's photographs of Soviet soldiers during their withdrawal from Czechoslovakia, part of her series "The Russians".
In Focus
A look at Christmas in the AmberSide Collection, showing how people create warmth and meaning through small rituals across different places, lives and circumstances.
In Focus
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.
In Focus
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
In Focus
Learn how Amber Film & Photography Collective helped protect Newcastle’s Quayside in the 1970s, blending art and activism to preserve its historic architecture.