Amber News

Nothern Lights Film Festival

11th March 2010 By: Graeme Rigby

Northern Lights Film Festival runs from Saturday 20 to Saturday 27 March with a great programme of screenings at Side Cinema, the Tyneside, the Gala in Durham and Star & Shadow. The Side Cinema...more »

Jimmy Forsyth Dies

14th July 2009 By: Graeme Rigby

Jimmy Forsyth, who documented Scotswood Road in the 1950s and 1960s, died on Saturday 11th July 2009. His work stands as one of the great records of its kind - a...more »

The Murray Martin Award

13th February 2009 By: Graeme Rigby

After Amber founder member and key visionary Murray Martin died in 2007, many people suggested that the group should set up an award in his memory, perhaps giving a young filmmaker an opportunity. It...more »

Peter Bialobrzeski

Peter Bialobreski studied Politics and Sociology before he became a photographer for a local paper in his native town Wolfsburg in Germany. He travelled extensively in Asia before he went back to College in Essen and London to do a course in Photography and Editorial-design. Since 1989 Peter Bialobrzeski’s work has been published in Stern, Merian, Geo, Zeit Magazine, Telegraph Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer, Marie Claire, The British Journal of Photography, Architecture Magazine NY, Greenpeace Magazine, Lufthansa Magazine, National Geographic Germany and various other national and international magazines. He works regularly for a number of Corporate clients including Daimler-Chrysler, Siemens, Philip Morris and Volkswagen. In 2000, Peter founded the virtual gallery Photosinstore.com and he was a member of the Jury of the Fuji European Press Awards in 2001 and 2002. He runs courses at the Hamburg based Publishing Academy for young picture editors and has been a visiting professor for photojournalism at the University of Essen. Since 2002, Peter has been Professor of Analogue and Digital Photography at the High School for Fine Arts in Bremen. As a critic, he regularly writes for Photo News and Freelens Magazine. His work is handled by Laif Agency in Cologne of which he became a member in 1994.

Nowhere Called Home

from: Photography

A Sicilian immigrant community in Germany and, on holiday, in Sicily, late 1980s, documented by one of the photographers involved in the Crook International Photography Workshop in 1993.

Give my Regards to Elizabeth

from: Photography

A journey through England in the early 1990s by the German photographer, drawing on his work as part of the Crook International Photography Workshop in 1993.

Unclear Family: Crook Workshop, 1993

from: Photography

A group show presentation of the work coming out of the Crook International Photography Workshop in 1993, documenting the experience of family in and around the South West Durham town.