Side Gallery
@SideGallery
Dedicated to Documentary Photography since 1977 #SaveSide
We've got a bluesky account! Find us @sidegallery.bsky.social. Excited to connect with you all there! 📸 bsky.app/profile/sidega…
You're Invited 🎉 We're opening our doors for an exciting Bank Holiday weekend, packed with powerful photography, documentary films, live conversations, workshops and a chance to support our future. 🥳 We're excited to see you there! 🔗 For more info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/event…
Do you have memories of working in coal mining or protesting pit closures? We are hosting a personal histories session to expand our archive of mining life, and collect lived experiences to contextualise the AmberSide Collection. @NCMME 🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/yzc9787h
🎬 Join us as "In Fading Light" (1989) screens at Watershed Bristol on 25 July as part of "Against the Grain: 1980s British Cinema" at Cinema Rediscovered. 🔗 More info and how to get tickets: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/cinem…
On Now! 🐟 "Harvest from the Deep" is a decade-long photography project by Pete Robinson, about the North Shields’ fishing industry. The exhibition also features images from Nick Hedges’ "Fishing Industry", connecting past and present. 🐟 🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/zj898ph7
📸 The NAO Victoria has docked in Newcastle City Marina, right next to Side on Newcastle's Quayside. So we're celebrating our little piece of the river as part of our #MySide call out "Places That Made Us". 🔗 Take part and share your images: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/myside
🌧️ It might be raining today, but if you're dreaming of hot summer days at the beach, bring the coast to you with this 1989 poster - now live on Side's online shop 🌊 🔗 Original poster available at: shop.amber-online.com/products/bathi…
What happens when a film collective buys a fishing boat? Amber's "In Fading Light" (1989) answered that question as they bought a boat and embedded themselves in the North East fishing industry for their film. 🔗 Learn more about this project: tinyurl.com/bdfha4rp
New stock alert! 📚 We’ve added a new selection of books and zines from independent creators to our online shop. If you're interested in the chance to sell on the Side online store, email us at: [email protected] 🔗 shop.amber-online.com
Fabulous surroundings at The Common Room, Newcastle, for our #WomenInShipbuilding exhibition last night. Great to catch up with @LRFHEC @NCL_OralHistory @RtPNorthTyne Amber Films (@SideGallery) and colleagues from @HistoricEngland @HE_Maritime
We've had a great afternoon with @CarvillePrimary children & parents who enjoyed a special class visit where they got to join The Summer Reading Challenge early! They've also been working on a photography exhibition with @SideGallery & had their work displayed. @NTCouncilTeam
📢 Funding news! We're delighted to support Amber Film & Photography Collective at @SideGallery with a £236,615 grant for a resilience project to safeguard their archive for generations to come. Learn more 👉 heritagefund.org.uk/projects/trans…
North Shields, 1980s, by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. Series documenting a dancing school. (via Amber/@SideGallery)
Here's one especially for all the lovers of early Soviet film & photography. Apart from just being a really cool poster design, it showcases the work of Dmitrii Bebabov (1899-1949).
Today's poster is from 1982, 'Nicaragua' by Susan Meiselas. Meiselas' work is notable for its documentation of the Sandinista revolution and its aftermath. She captured powerful and evocative images and documented the complex and often violent period in the country's history.
