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Est. in 1977 on Newcastle’s Quayside: Side is home to Side Gallery, Side Cinema and the UNESCO-listed AmberSide collection, showcasing film and documentary photography on working-class life from the North East and beyond.
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🎉 Ways We Celebrate - Open Call
Martín Chambi’s Gadea Wedding, Cuzco, 1930 shows a family marking a moment they want to last.
Share how you celebrate today and what those moments mean to you.
Submit to MySide: Ways We Celebrate: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
Martín Chambi’s Gadea Wedding, Cuzco, 1930 shows a family marking a moment they want to last.
Share how you celebrate today and what those moments mean to you.
Submit to MySide: Ways We Celebrate: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🎉 Ways We Celebrate - Open Call
Martín Chambi’s Gadea Wedding, Cuzco, 1930 shows a family marking a moment they want to last.
Share how you celebrate today and what those moments mean to you.
Submit to MySide: Ways We Celebrate: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
Martín Chambi’s Gadea Wedding, Cuzco, 1930 shows a family marking a moment they want to last.
Share how you celebrate today and what those moments mean to you.
Submit to MySide: Ways We Celebrate: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
📷 Street Photography: In Conversation with Side
Join us Mon 24 Nov, 5.30–7pm at Side for an open discussion on the role of street photography in documentary - from the AmberSide Collection and beyond.
🎟 RSVP → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
📸 T Dan Smith Slide, 1963 © AmberSide Collection
Join us Mon 24 Nov, 5.30–7pm at Side for an open discussion on the role of street photography in documentary - from the AmberSide Collection and beyond.
🎟 RSVP → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
📸 T Dan Smith Slide, 1963 © AmberSide Collection
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
📷 Street Photography: In Conversation with Side
Join us Mon 24 Nov, 5.30–7pm at Side for an open discussion on the role of street photography in documentary - from the AmberSide Collection and beyond.
🎟 RSVP → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
📸 T Dan Smith Slide, 1963 © AmberSide Collection
Join us Mon 24 Nov, 5.30–7pm at Side for an open discussion on the role of street photography in documentary - from the AmberSide Collection and beyond.
🎟 RSVP → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
📸 T Dan Smith Slide, 1963 © AmberSide Collection
📸 Remembrance - War Memorial, New York, North Tyneside
Year 5 pupils turned their cameras on their own village, photographing the war memorial beside the old Wheatsheaf Pub and the textures of its rebuilt stone. A study of place, memory and how the past remains part of the present.
Year 5 pupils turned their cameras on their own village, photographing the war memorial beside the old Wheatsheaf Pub and the textures of its rebuilt stone. A study of place, memory and how the past remains part of the present.
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
📸 Remembrance - War Memorial, New York, North Tyneside
Year 5 pupils turned their cameras on their own village, photographing the war memorial beside the old Wheatsheaf Pub and the textures of its rebuilt stone. A study of place, memory and how the past remains part of the present.
Year 5 pupils turned their cameras on their own village, photographing the war memorial beside the old Wheatsheaf Pub and the textures of its rebuilt stone. A study of place, memory and how the past remains part of the present.
🕯️Remembrance Sunday
In commemoration we are sharing more images from our North Shields Studio Portraits collection, photographs likely made as keepsakes in WWII. If you recognise a face or know a connection, please get in touch: side.gallery@amber-online.com.
🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...
In commemoration we are sharing more images from our North Shields Studio Portraits collection, photographs likely made as keepsakes in WWII. If you recognise a face or know a connection, please get in touch: side.gallery@amber-online.com.
🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🕯️Remembrance Sunday
In commemoration we are sharing more images from our North Shields Studio Portraits collection, photographs likely made as keepsakes in WWII. If you recognise a face or know a connection, please get in touch: side.gallery@amber-online.com.
🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...
In commemoration we are sharing more images from our North Shields Studio Portraits collection, photographs likely made as keepsakes in WWII. If you recognise a face or know a connection, please get in touch: side.gallery@amber-online.com.
🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...
🗓 72% of you voted for it - so it’s official! The first InSide meet-up is happening Mon 17 Nov, 6–8pm at Side Gallery, Newcastle.
A new space to connect, share work and shape a documentary photography community. Hosted by Side. Powered by you.
🔗 RSVP → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
A new space to connect, share work and shape a documentary photography community. Hosted by Side. Powered by you.
🔗 RSVP → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🗓 72% of you voted for it - so it’s official! The first InSide meet-up is happening Mon 17 Nov, 6–8pm at Side Gallery, Newcastle.
A new space to connect, share work and shape a documentary photography community. Hosted by Side. Powered by you.
🔗 RSVP → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
A new space to connect, share work and shape a documentary photography community. Hosted by Side. Powered by you.
🔗 RSVP → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
🗞 Looking back: The Winter of Discontent, 1978–79
This photograph by Richard Grassick, from his NUPE series, shows that moment up close. Today, it still feels familiar: questions about work, rights and dignity remain as urgent as ever.
📸 NUPE, 1978–1993 © Richard Grassick
This photograph by Richard Grassick, from his NUPE series, shows that moment up close. Today, it still feels familiar: questions about work, rights and dignity remain as urgent as ever.
📸 NUPE, 1978–1993 © Richard Grassick
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🗞 Looking back: The Winter of Discontent, 1978–79
This photograph by Richard Grassick, from his NUPE series, shows that moment up close. Today, it still feels familiar: questions about work, rights and dignity remain as urgent as ever.
📸 NUPE, 1978–1993 © Richard Grassick
This photograph by Richard Grassick, from his NUPE series, shows that moment up close. Today, it still feels familiar: questions about work, rights and dignity remain as urgent as ever.
📸 NUPE, 1978–1993 © Richard Grassick
🎆 Remember, remember the 5th of November 🎆
Fireworks light up the night and bring back memories of the places and people that made us.
📸 Share what Bonfire Night looks like for you with #MySide: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
Image: Watching © Emma Eloise Smith, 2022
Fireworks light up the night and bring back memories of the places and people that made us.
📸 Share what Bonfire Night looks like for you with #MySide: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
Image: Watching © Emma Eloise Smith, 2022
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
🎆 Remember, remember the 5th of November 🎆
Fireworks light up the night and bring back memories of the places and people that made us.
📸 Share what Bonfire Night looks like for you with #MySide: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
Image: Watching © Emma Eloise Smith, 2022
Fireworks light up the night and bring back memories of the places and people that made us.
📸 Share what Bonfire Night looks like for you with #MySide: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
Image: Watching © Emma Eloise Smith, 2022
🎥 Extended until 13 December
Due to popular demand, Miners’ Weekend School (1984) continues at The Burr of Berwick.
Amber Films’ six-part series captures a weekend of organising and self-education during the Miners’ Strike.
🔗 More info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
Due to popular demand, Miners’ Weekend School (1984) continues at The Burr of Berwick.
Amber Films’ six-part series captures a weekend of organising and self-education during the Miners’ Strike.
🔗 More info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
November 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
🎥 Extended until 13 December
Due to popular demand, Miners’ Weekend School (1984) continues at The Burr of Berwick.
Amber Films’ six-part series captures a weekend of organising and self-education during the Miners’ Strike.
🔗 More info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
Due to popular demand, Miners’ Weekend School (1984) continues at The Burr of Berwick.
Amber Films’ six-part series captures a weekend of organising and self-education during the Miners’ Strike.
🔗 More info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
When LK Stow found her dad’s “boring work photos,” she uncovered the hidden story of the North Sea oil boom. In "Offshore Onshore", she reflects on his life offshore and how those years shaped her family and the coastline they called home.
📰 Read the full story: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/offs...
📰 Read the full story: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/offs...
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
When LK Stow found her dad’s “boring work photos,” she uncovered the hidden story of the North Sea oil boom. In "Offshore Onshore", she reflects on his life offshore and how those years shaped her family and the coastline they called home.
📰 Read the full story: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/offs...
📰 Read the full story: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/offs...
📌 Today we’re resharing our FAQs from Managing Director Laura Laffler. They’re the best place to find up-to-date information, directly from the Side team. More exciting news is on the way later this year!
📰 Read full FAQs here: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/freq...
📰 Read full FAQs here: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/freq...
October 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
📌 Today we’re resharing our FAQs from Managing Director Laura Laffler. They’re the best place to find up-to-date information, directly from the Side team. More exciting news is on the way later this year!
📰 Read full FAQs here: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/freq...
📰 Read full FAQs here: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/freq...
📣 InSide is coming soon! A new monthly meet-up for photographers and anyone working with documentary images. Hosted by Side, shaped by you.
Help us pick the first date and get involved! 📝 Take the short survey: tinyurl.com/66th9vzk
📷 © Estate of Mary Gillens
Help us pick the first date and get involved! 📝 Take the short survey: tinyurl.com/66th9vzk
📷 © Estate of Mary Gillens
October 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
📣 InSide is coming soon! A new monthly meet-up for photographers and anyone working with documentary images. Hosted by Side, shaped by you.
Help us pick the first date and get involved! 📝 Take the short survey: tinyurl.com/66th9vzk
📷 © Estate of Mary Gillens
Help us pick the first date and get involved! 📝 Take the short survey: tinyurl.com/66th9vzk
📷 © Estate of Mary Gillens
In the late 1970s, Amber didn’t just photograph Newcastle’s Quayside, they helped save it! For our blog, our Managing Director Laura Laffler revisits the story of how Amber fought to protect the city’s working riverfront from demolition.
📰 Read more → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/savi...
📰 Read more → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/savi...
October 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
In the late 1970s, Amber didn’t just photograph Newcastle’s Quayside, they helped save it! For our blog, our Managing Director Laura Laffler revisits the story of how Amber fought to protect the city’s working riverfront from demolition.
📰 Read more → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/savi...
📰 Read more → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/savi...
🌊 New on the Side blog: an interview with photographer Peter Caton on Unyielding Floods, his long-term project documenting four years of continuous flooding in South Sudan. He speaks trust and the role of local voices in telling this story.
📖 Read → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/pete...
📸 ©Peter Caton
📖 Read → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/pete...
📸 ©Peter Caton
October 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🌊 New on the Side blog: an interview with photographer Peter Caton on Unyielding Floods, his long-term project documenting four years of continuous flooding in South Sudan. He speaks trust and the role of local voices in telling this story.
📖 Read → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/pete...
📸 ©Peter Caton
📖 Read → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/pete...
📸 ©Peter Caton
🛍️ Thirty-nine years ago this month, the Metrocentre opened in Gateshead.
Between 1986 and 1989, Peter Fryer photographed its rise as part of "Coke to Coke", capturing the shift from labour to leisure.
See the full collection → sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...
Between 1986 and 1989, Peter Fryer photographed its rise as part of "Coke to Coke", capturing the shift from labour to leisure.
See the full collection → sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
🛍️ Thirty-nine years ago this month, the Metrocentre opened in Gateshead.
Between 1986 and 1989, Peter Fryer photographed its rise as part of "Coke to Coke", capturing the shift from labour to leisure.
See the full collection → sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...
Between 1986 and 1989, Peter Fryer photographed its rise as part of "Coke to Coke", capturing the shift from labour to leisure.
See the full collection → sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...
🛼 "Roller Skating, Paper Delivery Girls Anita and Emma, 1988" by Bill Stephenson.
Offered as part of our 50x50 fundraising campaign, with all profits supporting the AmberSide Trust and our work to keep documentary photography public and accessible.
🖼️ shop.amber-online.com/produ...
Offered as part of our 50x50 fundraising campaign, with all profits supporting the AmberSide Trust and our work to keep documentary photography public and accessible.
🖼️ shop.amber-online.com/produ...
October 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🛼 "Roller Skating, Paper Delivery Girls Anita and Emma, 1988" by Bill Stephenson.
Offered as part of our 50x50 fundraising campaign, with all profits supporting the AmberSide Trust and our work to keep documentary photography public and accessible.
🖼️ shop.amber-online.com/produ...
Offered as part of our 50x50 fundraising campaign, with all profits supporting the AmberSide Trust and our work to keep documentary photography public and accessible.
🖼️ shop.amber-online.com/produ...
📖 "God’s Promises Mean Everything" by Mark Chapman follows seven years in the life of Derek, a homeless hostel resident in Teesside. Shot almost entirely in one room, it’s a portrait of trust, loss and endurance.
Publication now available on the Side Store: shop.amber-online.com/produ...
Publication now available on the Side Store: shop.amber-online.com/produ...
October 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
📖 "God’s Promises Mean Everything" by Mark Chapman follows seven years in the life of Derek, a homeless hostel resident in Teesside. Shot almost entirely in one room, it’s a portrait of trust, loss and endurance.
Publication now available on the Side Store: shop.amber-online.com/produ...
Publication now available on the Side Store: shop.amber-online.com/produ...
📷 The photo essay, "A Kind of Stillness", brings together photographs that find meaning in quiet moments. Each image comes from MySide, our open call inviting people everywhere to share how they see and experience the world.
Read the full story → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/mysi...
Read the full story → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/mysi...
October 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
📷 The photo essay, "A Kind of Stillness", brings together photographs that find meaning in quiet moments. Each image comes from MySide, our open call inviting people everywhere to share how they see and experience the world.
Read the full story → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/mysi...
Read the full story → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/mysi...
🎉 Worshipper, Notting Hill Carnival, 2025 by Anna Ellis.
A quiet moment inside one of Europe’s biggest celebrations of Caribbean culture, joy and resistance.
Shared as part of MySide, our open call for photos that show how people come together. Submit by 11 Jan → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
A quiet moment inside one of Europe’s biggest celebrations of Caribbean culture, joy and resistance.
Shared as part of MySide, our open call for photos that show how people come together. Submit by 11 Jan → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
October 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🎉 Worshipper, Notting Hill Carnival, 2025 by Anna Ellis.
A quiet moment inside one of Europe’s biggest celebrations of Caribbean culture, joy and resistance.
Shared as part of MySide, our open call for photos that show how people come together. Submit by 11 Jan → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
A quiet moment inside one of Europe’s biggest celebrations of Caribbean culture, joy and resistance.
Shared as part of MySide, our open call for photos that show how people come together. Submit by 11 Jan → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
🗞️ Our monthly newsletter shares new exhibitions, archive films and stories from the Amber collection and beyond.
Sign up to stay close to what’s happening at Side → tinyurl.com/SideNewsletter
📸 The Morning News, 1952 © Harry Morrison
Sign up to stay close to what’s happening at Side → tinyurl.com/SideNewsletter
📸 The Morning News, 1952 © Harry Morrison
October 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
🗞️ Our monthly newsletter shares new exhibitions, archive films and stories from the Amber collection and beyond.
Sign up to stay close to what’s happening at Side → tinyurl.com/SideNewsletter
📸 The Morning News, 1952 © Harry Morrison
Sign up to stay close to what’s happening at Side → tinyurl.com/SideNewsletter
📸 The Morning News, 1952 © Harry Morrison
🎬 This Friday at North Shields Library, we’re showing Shields Stories (Amber Films, 1988). Screenings run on a loop throughout the day, 9.30am–5.30pm, no booking needed. Just drop in, take a seat and spend some time with these stories from the place that shaped them.
📍 North Shields Library
📍 North Shields Library
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🎬 This Friday at North Shields Library, we’re showing Shields Stories (Amber Films, 1988). Screenings run on a loop throughout the day, 9.30am–5.30pm, no booking needed. Just drop in, take a seat and spend some time with these stories from the place that shaped them.
📍 North Shields Library
📍 North Shields Library
🌾 Red Runway, 2022, by Ukrainian photographer Yevhen Samuchenko — a red poppy field sits alongside green wheat in the Odesa region. Received through our MySide open call, it reflects how landscape can hold memory, identity and quiet strength.
Submit to #MySide → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
Submit to #MySide → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🌾 Red Runway, 2022, by Ukrainian photographer Yevhen Samuchenko — a red poppy field sits alongside green wheat in the Odesa region. Received through our MySide open call, it reflects how landscape can hold memory, identity and quiet strength.
Submit to #MySide → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
Submit to #MySide → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
🎥 We're excited to share that footage from Amber Films features in "The Iron Ladies", a new documentary on the women who organised and led during the 1984–85 Miners’ Strike.
Want to see on the big screen? The doc is screening at Tyneside Cinema on 16 Oct
🎟 tynesidecinema.co.uk/event/...
Want to see on the big screen? The doc is screening at Tyneside Cinema on 16 Oct
🎟 tynesidecinema.co.uk/event/...
October 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🎥 We're excited to share that footage from Amber Films features in "The Iron Ladies", a new documentary on the women who organised and led during the 1984–85 Miners’ Strike.
Want to see on the big screen? The doc is screening at Tyneside Cinema on 16 Oct
🎟 tynesidecinema.co.uk/event/...
Want to see on the big screen? The doc is screening at Tyneside Cinema on 16 Oct
🎟 tynesidecinema.co.uk/event/...
💡 Shine a spotlight on the AmberSide Trust.
The Movement for Good: Arts & Culture Draw is giving £5,000 to ten arts/culture/heritage charities. Nominate us before 19 Oct using 1160760 – AMBERSIDE TRUST → culture.movementforgood.com
📸 Weegee, 1940s © International Centre for Photography
The Movement for Good: Arts & Culture Draw is giving £5,000 to ten arts/culture/heritage charities. Nominate us before 19 Oct using 1160760 – AMBERSIDE TRUST → culture.movementforgood.com
📸 Weegee, 1940s © International Centre for Photography
October 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
💡 Shine a spotlight on the AmberSide Trust.
The Movement for Good: Arts & Culture Draw is giving £5,000 to ten arts/culture/heritage charities. Nominate us before 19 Oct using 1160760 – AMBERSIDE TRUST → culture.movementforgood.com
📸 Weegee, 1940s © International Centre for Photography
The Movement for Good: Arts & Culture Draw is giving £5,000 to ten arts/culture/heritage charities. Nominate us before 19 Oct using 1160760 – AMBERSIDE TRUST → culture.movementforgood.com
📸 Weegee, 1940s © International Centre for Photography
🥳 How do you celebrate?
From Diwali lights to Christmas dinners, Bonfire Night to New Year, birthdays to weddings, we’re looking for photographs that show how people come together and celebrate.
Submit to MySide by 11 Jan → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
From Diwali lights to Christmas dinners, Bonfire Night to New Year, birthdays to weddings, we’re looking for photographs that show how people come together and celebrate.
Submit to MySide by 11 Jan → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
October 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🥳 How do you celebrate?
From Diwali lights to Christmas dinners, Bonfire Night to New Year, birthdays to weddings, we’re looking for photographs that show how people come together and celebrate.
Submit to MySide by 11 Jan → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
From Diwali lights to Christmas dinners, Bonfire Night to New Year, birthdays to weddings, we’re looking for photographs that show how people come together and celebrate.
Submit to MySide by 11 Jan → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
🎥 Re-release: Lynsey Addario’s "Veiled Rebellion" exhibition talk, recorded at Side in 2012.
Ahead of the release of her documentary "Love+War", hear Addario reflect on photographing women’s lives in Afghanistan and why those stories still matter.
Watch → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/exhi...
Ahead of the release of her documentary "Love+War", hear Addario reflect on photographing women’s lives in Afghanistan and why those stories still matter.
Watch → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/exhi...
October 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
🎥 Re-release: Lynsey Addario’s "Veiled Rebellion" exhibition talk, recorded at Side in 2012.
Ahead of the release of her documentary "Love+War", hear Addario reflect on photographing women’s lives in Afghanistan and why those stories still matter.
Watch → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/exhi...
Ahead of the release of her documentary "Love+War", hear Addario reflect on photographing women’s lives in Afghanistan and why those stories still matter.
Watch → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/exhi...