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We've got a bluesky account! Find us @sidegallery.bsky.social. Excited to connect with you all there! 📸

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🔥 From the Side archive - poster for "Nicaragua: Susan Meiselas", shown at Side in 1982.

Susan Meiselas first travelled to Nicaragua 48 years ago, in June 1978. It was her first experience working in conflict photography, photographing ear, resistance and revolution.

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⛰️ Eastgate Cement Works, Weardale, 1991.

Dave Thomas photographs limestone, dust, machinery and labour as quarrying and cement production cut through the valley.

Explore the series: https://t.co/CINMJ6LCib

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🏰 Happy Northumberland Day.

From castles to coastlines, pit villages to market towns, it’s a celebration of the places, landscapes and communities that make the county what it is.

Show us your view of Northumberland and submit to "MySide: Local Colour": https://t.co/YdWVYLbYtL

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"Kellingley: The Last Deep Coal Mine in England" by Sam Welburn - photographs of the last deep coal mine in England, Kellingley Colliery, taken three weeks before production ceased and the site permanently closed.

Read: https://t.co/hK0lBqnnXz
Buy: https://t.co/wy85nDG0ri

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We are saddened to hear of the passing of Bruce Rae. Rae’s work remains a vital part of the AmberSide Collection and the history of the UK's Industrial Communities.

In remembrance, we’re sharing images from Shipbuilding on the Tyne,1983 - see more: https://t.co/kHPZYA1s4Z

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🌼 Kevin Edworthy captures a unique Durham view.

Every summer, Observatory Hill above Durham fills with old armchairs and road signs carried up by students gathering to watch the sun set over the Cathedral.

Submit to MySide: https://t.co/YdWVYLbYtL

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🎬 "Made Together: Amber Films & The Workshop Movement" is now open at Tyneside Cinema.

Explore Amber’s 1980s films through info panels exploring stills, scripts and archive material from Keeping Time, Seacoal, Double Vision and In Fading Light.

🔗 https://t.co/QD5GhhRDZ0

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🔥 “It’s my vision of Hell, that - and yet I loved working in the coke works.”

Peter Fryer photographed Derwenthaugh Coke Works during its closure in the late 1980s, as Thatcher-era deindustrialisation reshaped Tyneside.

🔗 https://t.co/Oye1E7fjKw

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☀️ Bank holiday plans...

📸 Village is a Global World, 1994 © Jindřich Štreit

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📸 Join us! InSide is a meet-up for photographers working in documentary. A space to share work, ask questions, and build community.

Next meeting:
🗓️ Tue 26 May, 6–8pm
📍Meet outside the Northumberland Building, Northumbria University, NE1 8SG
🔗 https://t.co/QCaY61NHpx

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We're on the look out for helping hands this coming Friday and Saturday (22nd - 23rd May) to help in the AmberSide Collection Archive.

Email: [email protected]
Subject line: "AmberSide Volunteer May 2026" and let us know your availability.

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🎤 Taken alongside Bruce Rae’s "Shipbuilding on the Tyne" in the early 1980s, these photographs show another part of the same lives.

After work, around work, beyond work: pubs, clubs, singers, jokes, and people making a night of it.

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🏠 Today is International Day of Families, a UN day on the pressures shaping family life.

Richard Grassick’s Unclear Family looks at those pressures directly, photographing family beyond the narrow political ideals of the 1990s.

🔗 See more: https://t.co/gcnWk2jVEO

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🌊 "The photo Play Boat symbolises the ever changing coastline of Britain... heavily used by the visitors and constantly bombarded by the weather..." 

David Cross on "Play Boat, Westward Ho!"

Feeling inspired? Take part in MySide: https://t.co/YdWVYLbYtL

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💙 It is Mental Health Awareness Week and we're sharing "Letters from Ernestine K" by Stefan Dolfen.

Made inside a psychiatric institution in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the preoject explors mental illness, care and representation.
📸 See more: https://t.co/V5c5tyus5r

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📣 The AmberSide Trust is looking for a new Treasurer.

You’ll help oversee financial planning and support the future of the AmberSide Collection as part of our Board of Trustees.

🔗 More info: https://t.co/eZYPVq8ljr

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📦 Are you an independent creator?

We’re looking for new stock for the Side online shop from independent creators. Stock must already be produced.

Send an outline & RRP to: [email protected]
Subject line: "Side Store: Independent Creator Stock Submission"

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🌊 MySide: Coastal Colour

Harbours, estuaries, beaches. Colour found in working boats, sea light, reflections, worn facades and the surfaces people live with every day.

Read the blog: https://t.co/YhffI72SN6
Submit to MySide: https://t.co/YdWVYLbYtL

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🎉 Big congratulations to photographer (and InSide Community member) Hazel Plater for having two portraits selected for the second round of judging for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2026.

🤞 they get through the next round!

🔗 more info: https://t.co/dshXHQ0Yrb

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🏭 Newcastle upon Tyne, 1971

The city before the Quayside apartments, bars and office blocks.

Do you remember this view before the Quayside changed?