Search results for mining

A survey documenting the coal mining landscape of County Durham, exploring the impact of industry on the a working coalfield.

Official and personal photography at Ashington Colliery, offering a rare and detailed view of mining life from within the Northumberland coalfield.

Photographs from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) work in the 1930s and the American Mining Communities project in the 1940s.

Colour photographs of Durham’s post-industrial shoreline, developed between 1998-2002, capturing the haunting beauty and environmental legacy of its coal mining past.

Aidan Doyle’s photography documents the final coastal collieries of the North East in the early 1990s, as coal mining in the region came to a close.

In the build-up to the Miners' Strike of 1984, Rae was commissioned to develop this portrait of Easington Colliery in County Durham. He worked with the writer Paul Rutishauser.

A comprehensive photographic study of the Northumberland mining community of Ashington, made in the late 1970s and 1980s.

A discussion 'trigger tape' exploring coalfield campaign concerns in the build-up to the Miners' Strike of 1984.

Photographs by Mary Gillens documenting family and village life in Wheatley Hill from the 1920s, rediscovered decades later by her grandson.

Six short films created from the Miners' Weekend School held in Ashington 1984, during the Miners' Strike.

A photo film blending Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s "Coal Coast" images with an original score by So Percussion - reflecting on memory, landscape and post-industrial change.

Photographs by Jindřich Štreit of ex-mining villages in South West Durham, developed during a 1994 residency exploring rural life after industrial decline.

A portrait of the ex-mining village of Sunniside, County Durham, photographed by Véronique Lespérat-Héquet during the 1993 Unclear Family international photography workshop.

Documentaries examining the relationship between the Labour Party and its voters, through exploration of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election and the early days of the Miners' Strike which began shortly after.

The second drama in Amber's Coalfield Trilogy explores the lives of a grandfather, father and son as they come to terms with the post-pit closure landscape of East Durham.

Photographed in the 1980s, Step by Step is Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s portrait of mother and daughter relationships and female community within a North Shields dancing school.