‘The beauty of the everyday’
A team of photographers and film-makers has spent 45 years capturing lives and landscapes in north-east England. As this film shows, the work of the Amber collective reveals a lost era.
Narrated by Graeme Rigby
Find out more
The work of the Amber collective is now part of an exhibition - For Ever Amber.
It can be seen at Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle Upon Tyne until 19 September 2015.
Credits
- Narration
- Graeme Rigby from Amber
- Photographs
- Byker (1971) by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
- River Project (1973) by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
- Durham Coalfield (1983) by John Davies
- Wallsend (1976) by Chris Killip
- Juvenile Jazz Bands (1979) by Tish Murtha
- Byker (1969) by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
- Byker (1971) by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
- Byker (1974) by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
- Youth Unemployment (1979) by Tish Murtha
- Fishing Industry (1980) by Nick Hedges
- Jungle Portraits (1981) by Izabela Jedrzejczyk
- Meadow Well: An English Estate (1991) by Steve Conlan
- Peaceable Kingdoms (1992) by Peter Fryer
- Coke to Coke (1986) by Peter Fryer
- Unclear Family (1993) by Steve Conlan
- Unclear Family (1993) by Dana Kyndrova
- Byker Revisited (2009) by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
- Shifting Ground (2001) by Dean Chapman
- Unclear Family (1993) by Mik Critchlow
- Step By Step (1984) by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
- Youth Unemployment (1981) by Tish Murtha
- Video
- Maybe (Amber Films,1969)
- Quayside (Amber Films,1979)
- High Row (Amber Films,1973)
- Music
- EMI Production Music
- Photofilm production
- Paul Kerley
- Web development
- Aidan Fewster
- Features Editor
- Giles Wilson
- Published
- 16 July 2015
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