Photography
Side Photographic Collection
Through its own production, support, purchase and retrieval, Amber has built up a significant photographic collection. Where possible, we're putting this work online.
The photographic engagement with the North of England has produced a remarkable enough body of work, but since Side Gallery opened in 1977, this has been extended through exhibition purchases and donations to include a wide-ranging representation of the international classic and contemporary documentary that continues to inspire us. Where we hold the rights and/or where the photographer gives permission, we're committed to putting as much of this work online as possible. As funding allows, new exhibitions will appear and some exhibitions will be developed further.
Aftermath: Foot and Mouth in Tow Law
Dean Chapman (Photographer)
A narrative from Dean Chapman's 'Shifting Ground' work, documenting South West Durham for Amber's 'Coalfield Stories', which looks at the aftermath of the 2001 foot & mouth epidemic and the impact of the Inkerman Burial Site on Tow Law.
American Mining Communities
Russell Lee (Photographer)
Mining communities in West Virginia and Kentucky, USA, documented in the 1940s by one of the key photographers, who, along with Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and others, developed the classic Farm Securities Administration photography in the 1930s.
Appleby Horse Fair
Dave Thomas (Photographer)
A documentation of the annual gathering in the North of England of travellers and others involved in horse culture, developed over the fairs that took place in 1969 and 1970.
Ashington
Mik Critchlow (Photographer)
A documentation of the Northumberland mining town by a photographer from that community, developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Belmont Group Day Out
Graciela Iturbide (Photographer)
A Mothers & Toddlers group from Walker in Newcastle upon Tyne photographed on an outing to South Shields in 1988, when the photographer was on Tyneside with her exhibition Juchitan.