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 »

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.