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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 »

Side Gallery

Previous Exhibitions

An internationally-renowned gallery that has been celebrating the best in documentary photography since it opened in 1977. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm, Free.

Side Gallery is committed to documentary in the tradition of the concerned photographer. Exhibitions include Amber production, commissions and historical and contemporary work from around the world that inspires us. Talks and events are organised around most of the exhibitions. There is a range of photography books, posters, postcards and prints for sale, along with Amber films on DVD and VHS.

Exhibitions 1977 to 1999

Complete Side Gallery exhibitions from its opening in 1977 to 1994, followed by an outline of activity between 1995 and 1999.

For most of it I have no words by Simon Norfolk

Friday 18 June 1999 to Sunday 8 August 1999

Simon Norfolk's harrowing exhibition is a catalogue of twentieth century sites of atrocity. more...

This Man’s Army by Martin Figura

Saturday 14 August 1999 to Sunday 10 October 1999

Figura's portraits explore class and identity, family and social order within the closely defined (at times claustrophobic) contexts of Army life. more...

An Interrupted Journey by Giovanni Diffidenti

Saturday 16 October 1999 to Sunday 28 November 1999

Since 1991, Diffidenti has been photographing landmine victims all over the world. These images are from Angola. more...

Ten Days in Tiananmen Square by Bob Gannon

4 December 1999 to 23 January 2000

*Photography can be an excuse. It's the excuse I had to get me to a country I have always wanted to see. Like many people, I never thought that that desire would be realised (for many it never will) more...