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Photo Essay
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.
News, Photo Essay
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.
In Focus, Photo Essay
Photographer Richard Simpson shares his experience experimenting using a drone to capture the iconic Hoppings funfair from the sky.
Photo Essay, In Focus
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.
Photo Essay
From Staithes to Porthcawl, discover responses to "MySide: Local Colour" that look at the coast in colour.
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.
Photo Essay
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.
Photo Essay
Photographer Matt MacPake shares his project one of Scotland's oldest and most emotionally charged traditions: the Langholm Common Riding.
Photo Essay
Discover how people around the world see their everyday lives, from the North Sea to Brazil and Iran. These MySide highlights share personal, grounded views of places far beyond the North East.