The City
Originally attracted to Newcastle upon Tyne because of its community identities and visual landscape, Amber has been concerned with the changing city, urban redevelopment and regeneration.
Exhibitions (show all)
Byker
from: Photography
The seminal documentation of a threatened and eventually demolished working class, terraced house community in Newcastle upon Tyne’s East End by a founder member of Amber, who lived there when the collective first moved to the North East of England in 1969. Book available. See also Amber's film, Byker.
T Dan Smith (1987)
from: Amber Films
A powerful, experimental feature film juxtaposing political drama and challenging interviews with T Dan Smith and other key figures associated with his controversial reign as Leader of Newcastle City Council in the 1960s.
Among the most interesting and socially relevant of contemporary films. New Statesman
Byker (1983)
from: Amber Films
Richly evocative of British working class community, a partly dramatised documentary built around Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's black & white photographs of the Newcastle terraced community in which she lived before it was demolished to make way for the Byker Wall.
Available as VHS - book available also