Amber News

Amber More4 Season

20th November 2008 By: Graeme Rigby

More4 is broadcasting a season of films made with North East England's horsey community. Titled The Amber Collective: A Lost World on Film it kicks off, on Sat 6 Dec at 10.35pm, with our brand new...more »

Step by Step back online

21st February 2008 By: Graeme Rigby

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's great exhibition Step by Step is back on the website. We took this 1980s documentation of a North Shields dance school offline, when we found that ...more »

Martin Stephenson Gig at Side Café

10th December 2007 By: Graeme Rigby

It's always a joy catching a Martin Stephenson gig, but an acoustic set in the intimacy of Side Café's upstairs lounge is going to be a rare treat. Clear away the excesses of Christmas, prepare...more »

John Pattison Gibson

Gibson described himself on his notepaper as a landscape photographer but, although his name appeared in late 19th century directories as a photographer, and although he sold prints, slides, postcards and photographic materials in his chemist shop, had a portrait studio and eventually undertook some commission, he was not a professional photographer in the accepted sense. His special interests lay in the landscape of Northumberland, Roman archeology and antiquities, medieval architecture including buildings and churches all over the country. This breadth of knowledge enabled him to interpret the landscape in historical as well as visual terms.

He entered his photographs into competitions around the world, and he was a member of the Royal Photographic Society and the local Hexham Photographic Society.

Gibson Collection.

from: Photography

Landscapes from the C19th Northumberland landscape photographer John Pattison Gibson, an exhibition developed by Isabella Jedrzejczyk in the early 1980s.