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A Year of Transformation

Laura Laffler

December 15th, 2025

A letter from our Managing Director, looking back at the past year and announcing the next phase of Side and Amber's future.
Christmas in the AmberSide Collection

Christmas in the AmberSide Collection

December 14th, 2025

AmberSide Collection

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: Every Breath They Take

In Focus: Every Breath They Take

November 28th, 2025

Ellen Stone

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.
OFFSHORE ONSHORE

OFFSHORE ONSHORE

October 31st, 2025

LK Stow

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
Amber: Saving the Quayside

Amber: Saving the Quayside

October 21st, 2025

Laura Laffler

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.
Joe McCarty: Reflections on the Quayside

Joe McCarty: Reflections on the Quayside

September 17th, 2025

Joe McCarty

In Focus

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.
Fathers In Focus

Fathers In Focus

June 14th, 2025

Ellen Stone

In Focus

This Father's Day we take a closer look at Peter Fryer's complex and intimate project "Fathers", 1998-2000.
Documenting Appleby Horse Fair

Documenting Appleby Horse Fair

June 6th, 2025

Frances Campbell

In Focus

Our Curatorial Assistant, Frances Campbell, takes a dive into the collection and explores a series of photographs documenting the Appleby Horse Fair.