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📷 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/event…

🌧️ 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/collection/sea…

🏳️‍🌈 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/products/under… 🎉 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/myside

🌊 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-o…

🎬 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/cinem… @

🌱 Pride is protest, friendship, 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, fruit trees, and turning up as yourself. ©possy / ©Chan

📣 Side Shout Outs: 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/event…

🤼 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-pahal…

🛒 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/cinem…

📣 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. 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/blog/relocatin…

🏆 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/collection/quo…

🎡 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/hoppings-…