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 »

Miriam Reik

One of the collaborators on the ‘Unclear Family’ international photography workshop in Crook, County Durham. She brought ‘Can I Say Shalom?’, her exploration of her own background in the North London Jewish community, to Side Gallery in 1994.

She is still working as a photographer.

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.

Can I Say Shalom?

from: Photography

An exploration of Jewish identity and community in North West London, early 1990s, brought by one of the photographers involved in the Crook International Photography Workshop in 1993.