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 »

Keith Pattison

‘Easington, August 1984’ was funded as an Artists’ Agency residency. Side Gallery commissioned ‘Every Breath They Take’ in 1989. Keith Pattison is based in Newcastle, still working as a photographer and has no truck with biographies.

Every Breath They Take

from: Photography

Work supporting the campaign by residents of Hebburn, South Tyneside against Monkton Cokeworks and the environmental pollution it brought to the community, late 1980s.

Easington: August 1984

from: Photography

Documentation of a County Durham colliery village under police siege, at the height of the Miners’ Strike. Purchased and toured by Amber, the work was published by Amberside with a text by Huw Beynon.