🔥 In the final week of Sunderland’s National Glass Centre, Juan Fitzgerald photographed a place still full of heat, skill and public feeling. 📷 National Glass Centre, Sunderland, 2026 ©Juan Fitzgerald 📰 Photographing an important event in our region? Submit to side.gallery@amber-online.com

🧭 Turn left at the blue window. Keep going past the sign. You’ll know it when you see it. Our new blog, "Unlikely Landmarks", looks at a curated selection from our last open call MySide: Local Colour and the everyday details that become local markers. Read now: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/mysi...

📷 InSide returns in August: a relaxed space to share documentary work, ask questions, talk through sticking points and swap news and opportunities. 📆 Wednesday 19 August, 6–8pm 📍 Gosforth Civic Theatre More info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🌧️ August may be holiday season, but at sea the work carried on. For Side’s 1987 commission "Seafarers", Mik Critchlow returned to working ships to record the labour and uncertainty of a profession under threat. See more: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

🏳️‍🌈 Looking back to last weekend, when Newcastle Pride filled Leazes Park and the city streets with running, marching, colour, noise and joy. All photographs © David Whinham. Recording an important North East moment? Send it to side.gallery@amber-online.com

💎 SIDE SHOUT OUTS: CONGRATS... Sasha Mallo Tardiveau and Hazel Plater gave themselves one hour to photograph Antwerp’s diamond district - their new 28-page zine was released this week! 🛍️ shop.amber-online.com/produ... 🎉 Share you're success: side.gallery@amber-online.com

📷 OPEN CALL: MySide – On the Move MySide is Side’s open call for photographs of everyday life. Show us journeys, work, play, care and the inventive ways people get around. Phone or camera. Everyone welcome. Deadline 30 Sept. 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🌊 86 years ago today, Weegee photographed Coney Island at 4pm, from on top of the lifeguard station. Humorous and recognisable - the seaside promise is simple: cooler air, open space, a break from the city. The reality is that everyone else has had the same excellent idea.

⚠️ Plastic made to become something else is becoming part of the coast line. Hazel Plater’s new photo essay records the nurdle clean-up in South Shields explores the pollution, its environmental impact and the people responding. Read more: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/nurdles...

🎬 Side is working with The Common Room on Heritage on Screen, bringing films from the AmberSide Collection into the historic Lecture Theatre. 📍 The Common Room, Newcastle upon Tyne 📅 27 July – 4 September 2026 🎟️ Free Dates & times : sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🌱 Pride is protest, party, friendship, care, and sometimes a very good allotment. For Newcastle Pride, we’re sharing images from TopSoil, a queer gardening project run by The NewBridge Project. A space for community, safety, soil, pond life, fruit trees, and turning up as yourself. ©possy / ©Chan

📣 Side Shout Outs: Congratulations go to Neil Ferdowsian! Neil’s photographs "Vendor" and "Partners" have been selected for Carlotta Gallery’s online "Europe" exhibition. Find Neil on instagram: nfphotocraft Send your wins for next Friday's shout out to: side.gallery@amber-online.com

📸 Event Reminder! InSide is a meet-up for photographers working in documentary. A space to share work, ask questions, and build community. Next meeting: 🗓️ Wed 22 July, 6–8pm 📍Gosforth Civic Theatre, Regent Farm Road, NE3 3HD 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🤼 For many of India’s traditional mud wrestlers, the real prize is a secure government job. Monica Dhaka photographs the men training at Delhi’s Guru Hanuman Akhada, and the labour and hope invested in their bodies. Read more on the Side Blog: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/the-...

🛒 Poolside browsing encouraged, but not required. The Side Shop is online, with photobooks, zines and publications from independent creators, Side and our collaborators. New products added regularly. Every purchase supports Side. 🔗 shop.amber-online.com

📣 Side Shout Outs! Congratulations... Nicola Davison Reed has been published in issue 8 of KLICK magazine with 30 Seconds of Street #thecomfortofstrangers, an ongoing street portrait project made from 2011 to today.

📣 Side Shout Outs! Congratulations... James Sebright’s The Body & The Blood has been shortlisted for the Urban Photo Awards’ Mark Power Special Prize and will be exhibited at Trieste Photo Days in October. Fingers crossed for the next stage.

📣 Side Shout Outs! Congratulations... Maggie Jary ARPS was recently a category winner in the World Food Photography Awards with a photograph taken at Beamish Museum on an old iPhone 5. Four women, a bag of chips, and a missed moment that wasn’t missed.

🎣 From North Shields to Inverness. On Tuesday 21 July, Eden Court in Inverness screens "In Fading Light", set within the North Shields fishing community at a time of change for the local industry. 🔗 Tickets and more info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

📣 News from the AmberSide Collection. With support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Collection will be deposited on loan with Newcastle University Special Collections, opening up new opportunities for research, teaching and public access. 🔗 Read more: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/relo...

🏆 In a summer of big matches, this is sport at a smaller scale. 47 years ago, Ian Macdonald photographed a quoits championship in Danby. When sport is often seen through screens, Macdonald’s photographs bring it back to something more local & social. 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

🎡 The Hoppings from a new angle. Richard Simpson writes for Side about drone photography, the Town Moor, and finding a different way to look at one of Newcastle’s most familiar summer events. 📖 Read More: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/hopp...

⚽ One ball in to win. No pressure, England. Posting this ahead of tonight’s World Cup match because nothing says national confidence like a penalty shootout stall. 📷 World Cup Penalties Again, 2026 ©David Whinham

🥁 Today Durham turns up for The Big Meeting. For Durham Miners’ Gala, we’re sharing two MySide submissions from last year’s Gala: Daniel Bunney’s "Marras" and Alastair Smith’s "The Big Meet". A living act of memory, pride and solidarity.

📣 Got good news? We’re starting Side Shout Outs. Every Friday we’ll share a recent win from the photography community: a finished project, exhibition, publication, prize or something you’re proud of. Submit by sending an image, handles + short note to side.gallery@amber-online.com

☀️ It’s too hot to be at work, and we all know where we'd rather be... From Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Writing in the Sand, her study of beach life in the North East, 1973–1998. ...this one's for everyone planning the quickest route to the coast.

Join us! After a month off InSide is back and our next meeting will take place on Wednesday 22nd July at Gosforth Civic Theatre. Open to everyone: bring images, bring questions, or just come along to meet people. 🔗 More info and to let us know you're coming: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

Six years ago Alys Tomlinson began "Lost Summer". Between June and August 2020 she photographed teenagers whose school proms had been cancelled due to Covid. Made in gardens, backyards and local parks, the series records a missing rite of passage. The series is now part of the AmberSide Collection.

🔥 From the Side archive - poster for "Nicaragua: Susan Meiselas", shown at Side in 1982. Susan Meiselas first travelled to Nicaragua 48 years ago, in June 1978. It was her first experience working in conflict photography, photographing a country moving through fear, resistance and revolution.

⛰️ Eastgate Cement Works, Weardale, 1991. Dave Thomas photographs limestone, dust, machinery and labour as quarrying and cement production cut through the valley. Explore the series: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...