⚫️⚪️ On 9 December 1892, Newcastle East End agreed on a name change to become Newcastle United, choosing a name that spoke to the whole city. We're marking the date by resharing our blog on Seen.By.Zine’s special issue celebrating the Toon. 📰 sidegallery.co.uk/blog/nort...

All of us at Side are saddened to hear of Martin Parr’s passing. He’s been one of the most recognisable voices in British photography for decades, and his loss will be felt across the field.  📸 The Non-Conformists: Halifax Rugby League Club Ground, Yorkshire, 1977 ©Martin Parr/Magnum Photos

🎄 Looking back at Blackpool Illuminations, 1972. Giant Santa, smiling lollies, kids around a blazing bonfire, clowns, and dragons on the prom. Where lights meet folk art. 👀 See more: sidegallery.co.uk/visual-cu...

🎥 Last chance to see "Miners’ Weekend School" hosted by Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival - Closing 13 Dec. The six part series follows political education and organising during the Miners’ Strike. Open Saturdays, 12 to 4pm, free to all. 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🎁 Our Vintage Poster Sale is live. Over 50 original posters from Side’s archive, and 25% off when you buy two or more. Holiday posting: orders before end of 15 Dec will be processed before we close for Christmas. Later orders ship from Side in the new year. Shop: shop.amber-online.com/colle...

💙 Today is Giving Tuesday Side and the AmberSide Trust care for an archive that holds working lives, stories and voices from the North East and beyond. It exists because people choose to support it. Thanks for standing with us. Donate: www.justgiving.com/charity/...

🎞 See Amber Films’ In Fading Light at Baltic Cinema on 10 December, 2 to 3.45pm. Made in North Shields with local crews, it captures a community in transition. The screening begins with an introduction from producer and researcher Andy Robson. Tickets: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

📷 Are you a street photographer looking to meet others? North East Street Photography Festival are hosting a free Christmas Market photowalk in Newcastle on Sun 7 Dec, 3 to 5pm. Meet outside Socíété café. Free to all. 🎄

🦃 Wishing our US followers a happy Thanksgiving! Russell Lee photographed this scene in 1946. A family sat before supper, it is a reminder of the importance of connecting and eating together. Submit your image of a family ritual to "MySide: Ways We Celebrate" → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🔥 MySide: Michelle Webster, Feed the Flame, 2025 Community bonfires have long been part of the Wirral. New approval rules changed how events ran this year, and Webster photographed Woodchurch on the night theirs went ahead. Submit to MySide: Ways We Celebrate - sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🚩 Hamaguchi’s "Narita Airport" poster from 1985. Protest, tension, and sharp graphic design in one vintage poster. Part of our Vintage Poster Sale. Buy 2 to get 25% off. 🖼️ Narita Airport poster, £20: shop.amber-online.com/produ... 🛒 Full vintage poster sale: shop.amber-online.com/colle...

⏰ REMINDER ⏰ 📷 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/...

👑 Peter Bialobrzeski’s "Give My Regards to Elizabeth" was made in the early 1990s as he travelled through a UK marked by recession and sharp social contrasts. Capturing a national mood that, in the run up to the Autumn budget, still feels close today. 🔗 See more: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

📺 It is World TV Day, created to recognise its role in sharing news. As TV became a main way people received information it also became part of the home - something captured in many documentary projects. 📸 © Exit Photography Group: Paul Trevor, Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele Perkins.

☔ Classic British weather ☔ It’s not winter yet, but it definitely feels like it. This photograph from 1949 is a reminder that the routine is timeless: rain, puddles, umbrella, carry on. 📷 Rain in Trafalgar Square, 1949 © Harry Morrison 🔗Harry Morrison Collection: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

🎂 Born on this day in 1876, August Sander’s portraits of workers, families and artists remain central to the story of documentary photography. His work is an important part of the AmberSide Collection’s international works. 🔗 Explore the full collection: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

🎁 This holiday season we’re opening the archives. Buy two or more original Side posters and get 25% off your poster order. Choose from over 50 designs from past exhibitions, films and campaigns, each a piece of documentary history. 🔗 shop.amber-online.com/colle...

⏰REMINDER! 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/...

🏳️‍⚧️ It is Trans Awareness Week, a time to stand with the trans community. To mark it we’re re-sharing our interview with Phyllis Christopher about her project "Body in Peril", that reflects trans and queer resilience, care and visibility. 📰 sidegallery.co.uk/blog/mysi...

🎉 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/...

📷 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

📸 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.

🕯️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: [email protected]. 🔗 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/...

🗞 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

🎆 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

🎥 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/...

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...

📌 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...

📣 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

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...

🌊 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

🕰️ On this day in 1835, Grainger Market opened to the people of Newcastle. It has been an essential part of our city ever since. "Six to Midnight" (Amber Films, 1974), captures a day in the life of the market, full of noise, and character. 📽️ Watch → sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

🛍️ 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...

🛼 "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...

📖 "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...

📷 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...

🎉 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/...

🗞️ 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

🎬 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

🌾 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/...

🎥 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/...

💡 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

🥳 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/...

🎥 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...

🃁 Now in the Side shop: "Bewilderment Cards" by Esther May Campbell & Kitchen Table Photo Club. A unique tarot inspired deck of 69 photographic and hand-drawn cards to spark creativity and curiosity. 🛒 shop.amber-online.com/produ...

⚓️ Stories of the Fish Quay and beyond. Event "From Our Streets to Our Seas" comes to Salt Market Social, North Shields on 24 Oct. An evening of film, music, photography and tales of coastal life. Free tickets, pre-booking essential: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

Andrew Mitchell’s "In the Shadow of the Rocket" reflects on change in Gateshead, where the Dunston Rocket once stood over the local club and community. Selected from our #MySide open call asking how places shape who we are. Submit by 10 Oct → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

✊🚲 Socialism on two wheels. The Fred Mawson Collection shows Clarion Cycling Club meets of the 1920s and postcards in Esperanto, linking Newcastle’s Cowgate with comrades across Europe. Read our latest in focus blog by MD Laura Laffler: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/the-...

📸 What places made you who you are? Our MySide call out theme “Places That Made Us” is open until 10 Oct. We’ve had photos from Stockport to Tehran, North Shields to Naples. Now it’s your turn! 👉 Submit: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...