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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 11h

🃁 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.

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 1d

⚓️ 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/...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 2d

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/...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 3d

✊🚲 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-...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 4d

📸 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/...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 5d

📢 After the End of History is now open at Ffotogallery, Cardiff.

A powerful look at working-class life from 1989–2024, including Richard Grassick prints loaned from the AmberSide Collection.

🗓 3 Oct–13 Dec
More info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 6d

⚓ Shipshape is open at Wallsend Library

Photography by Hazel Plater & Sasha Mallo Tardiveau documents the North East Maritime Trust, from boatyard workshops to the 110-year-old lifeboat Henry Frederick Swan.

📍 Free entry, 2–31 Oct | The Forum, NE28 8JR

More Info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 8d

To celebrate UK Black History Month we’re sharing portraits from a lost North Shields studio (1940s–60s), revealing the town’s often forgotten diversity.

👉 See more from this local collection: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...
✉️ Recognise a face? Email [email protected]

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 9d

🥁 Music, friendship and legacy in the North East. The Bamboozler (2007) is an Amber Films documentary from the AmberSide Collection, telling the story of Tyneside percussionist Bruce Arthur and the friends who kept his spirit alive.

Rent for £2.50: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 10d

📷 MySide Open Call spotlight: Anna Maren Kristofova: “I do not know whether I still consider swimming to hold the same importance for me… This reflects an internal struggle to discover who I truly am.”

What places shaped you? Enter MySide: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 11d

🐒 "Woodyard worker's tattoo of the Hartlepool Monkey, Seaton Carew, 1974" by Daniel Meadows. Available Now in Side’s 50x50 fundraising sale: £50 each, edition of 50. Every purchase supports the AmberSide Trust.

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 12d

🗓️ This image was taken on this day 99 years ago, 27 Sept 1926, documenting Newcastle’s riverside being reshaped to make way for the iconic Tyne Bridge.

The Dorman Long Collection captures the bridge rising from the Quayside into the landmark we know today. See more: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 13d

⏳ Last days to see From the Earth Comes Light, closing 28 Sept at NCMME.

Celebrating women, creativity and mining, with AmberSide works by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Isabela Jedrzejczyk, plus Amber films "The Scar" and "A Song for Billy".

Visit : sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 14d

⚓ On World Maritime Day we celebrate the men whose lives were tied to the sea.

In 1987 Side commissioned Mik Critchlow, who joined the Merchant Navy at 15, to create Seafarers. His photographs honour their work, families and solidarity.

More: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 15d

📦 We’ve been repackaging the AmberSide Collection through our Transforming Amber NLHF grant. Big thanks to our archive volunteers.

Now we’ve got piles of photoboxes in good condition. Free to photographers, artists & students. Save them from landfill!

Email: [email protected]

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 16d

☀️ Summer may be over, but our latest blog shows us why the seaside in the sun matters.

The latest from #MySide, Antonio Balisciano’s photo essay "Beneath Vesuvius" captures the shoreline as a shared space of memory, community and everyday life.

Read: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/bene...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 17d

⛽️ USA: Gas Stations & Stores, 1972 from our Visual Culture archive. Small-town gas stations that doubled as stores, photographed before interstate expansion.

🖼️ 10¢ Beef is in our 50x50 sale, £50 each, edition of 50.

See More: sidegallery.co.uk/visual-cu...
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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 18d

📰 New blog! "Joe McCarty: Reflections on the Quayside"

Joe recalls Newcastle’s Quayside Market from boyhood in the 1940s, then returns in the 1970s with his camera. His words and photos capture the bustle and people of this iconic place.

👉 Read: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/joe-...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 19d

Nik Roche is featured in the Guardian talking about their image Caravan Kid. It shows “a quiet moment of thoughtfulness, looking out at the world” and it’s part of Side’s 50x50 print campaign priced at only £50.

📰 Read: theguardian.com/artanddesig...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 20d

📢 Amber: Documenting Place - extended until December at the Farrell Centre!

A display of prints & films from the AmberSide Collection, looking at human-centred documenting of places and communities.

Open Wed–Fri 1–4pm, plus Sat 25 Oct, 8 Nov, 22 Nov, 6 Dec
ℹ️ Info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 21d

What kind of banner will you create for Berwick? 🎨

Make a banner inspired by Miners’ Weekend School (1984) in this free, family-friendly workshop for Heritage Open Days with Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival.

📅 Sat 20 Sept, 12–4pm
📍 The Burr, Berwick

ℹ️ sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 25d

🔥 Rankin, one of the UK’s most recognisable portrait photographers, has donated to Side’s 50x50 Print Sale.

50 artists. 50 editions. Prints are £50. His support shows how vital Side’s mission is across photography. Every sale supports the AmberSide Trust.

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 26d

JOIN THE CONVERSATION 🗣️ We want to hear from you.

"OurSide: A Documentary Toolkit" is a new resource for future documentary storytellers. It will be built from your responses and ideas on how stories are told, trust is built & voices are heard.

👉 Take part: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/ours...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 27d

🚢 In Sept 1909 RMS Mauretania, built at Swan Hunter in Wallsend, North Tyneside, won the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing at 26.06 knots, a record she held 20+ years.

Photographs in the AmberSide Collection capture her 1906 construction and launch 📸

🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

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Side @sidegallery.bsky.social · 28d

📢 Twelve Fifteen by Andrea Allen is now on sale from Side’s online shop.

🎞️ 26 photographs made on 35mm film around Lynemouth power station, exploring time, place and industry.

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