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Letters to Katja (1989)

Letters to Katja (1989)

Amber Films | Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Film and Video

A deeply personal documentary by Finnish-born photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen on her return to her native Finland with her daughter Katja, after 23 years in Britain.
My Finnish Routes

My Finnish Routes

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Photographic

A photographic reflection on landscape, memory and environmental change, made by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen during her return to Finland in 1992 after decades working in Britain.
River Project

River Project

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Photographic

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photographs of the River Tyne’s industrial landscape formed part of Amber’s first major group collaboration - a touring exhibition that led to the founding of Side.
Mai (1973)

Mai (1973)

Amber Films

Film and Video

A film portrait of the eccentric and obsessive collector Mai Finglass - landlady to founder Amber members Murray Martin and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, when students in London.
The Writing in the Sand (1991)

Film and Video

An evocation of beach life in the North East of England, constructed from Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's black & white photographs spanning from the 1970s - early 1990s.
The Hoppings

The Hoppings

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Photographic

Photographed in the early 1970s, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s The Hoppings captures the rich visual culture of Europe’s largest travelling fair on Newcastle’s Town Moor.
A Song for Billy

A Song for Billy

Amber Films

Film and Video

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.
Byker (1983)

Byker (1983)

Amber Films | Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Film and Video

A partly dramatised documentary film built around Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's photographs of the Newcastle terraced community, demolished to make way for the Byker Wall Estate in the 1970s.
Today I'm With You (2010)

Film and Video

A documentary film arising out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's Byker Revisited portraits, exploring the new and changing communities in Newcastle's Byker Wall Estate.
Step by Step

Step by Step

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Photographic

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.
Byker Revisited

Byker Revisited

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Photographic

A portrait of life in the Byker Wall Estate, capturing the changing community that replaced the original streets Konttinen photographed in the 1970s.
Honnos My Fiddler

Honnos My Fiddler

Pentti Sammallahti

Photographic

A photographic series documenting Romani communities in Transylvania in the early 1980s, focusing on daily life, family structures and cultural practices within rural village settings.
The Coal Coast

The Coal Coast

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Photographic

Colour photographs of Durham’s post-industrial shoreline, developed between 1998-2002, capturing the haunting beauty and environmental legacy of its coal mining past.
T Dan Smith (1987)

T Dan Smith (1987)

Amber Films

Film and Video

Leader of Newcastle City Council, 1958 - 1965, T Dan Smith was a controversial politician. This docu-drama film takes an experimental structure to deal with the uncertainty of the evidence around his conviction for corruption in 1974.
Quayside

Quayside

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Photographic

Late 1970s documentation of Newcastle’s Quayside, made as part of Amber’s effort to resist redevelopment of the area surrounding Side Gallery.
Interiors

Interiors

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Photographic

A series of family portraits and home interiors from the Meadowell estate in North Shields, photographed in 1981.
Keeping Time (1983)

Keeping Time (1983)

Amber Films

Film and Video

An experimental film, blending drama, documentary footage, and still photographs into a continuous narrative to explore mother daughter relationships and a dancing school in North Shields.
Byker

Byker

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Photographic

Seminal documentation of the community of terraced streets in Byker, demolished to make way for the Byker Wall Estate in the 1970s.
Urban Landscapes

Urban Landscapes

Isabela Jedrzejczyk

Photographic

Photographs of Newcastle and North Tyneside, commissioned as part of the North Tyneside Survey, 1979.
The Art of Shipbuilding (2017)

Film and Video

A 2017 photofilm by Amber bringing together shipyard poetry, painting, photography and film to reflect on the community, memory and artistry of Tyneside shipbuilding.
Writing In The Sand

Writing In The Sand

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Photographic

A photographic celebration of the life of beaches in the North East of England, captured between 1973 and 1998.