SIDE: Planned Space Lived Place

A display of work from the AmberSide Collection exploring northern New Towns and planned communities.

Planned Space Lived Place brings together photographs and artworks exploring New Towns and planned communities in the North East, with a focus on Peterlee, Washington and Killingworth. Drawing on the AmberSide Collection alongside work by InSide members, it looks at how these places have been imagined, built, used and remembered.

Across the exhibition, planning appears not only as architecture or policy, but as something lived through streets, homes, public space and everyday routines. The works on show trace the relationship between official ideas of progress and the more complex realities of community life.

Includes work by:

From the AmberSide Collection: Martin Franck, Lambton Visual Aids, Sally-Ann Norman, Janina Struk

From InSide members: Sasha Mallo Tardiveau, Hazel Plater, Andrew Pounder, David Sampele, Richard Simpson

About InSide: Documentary Photography Community

InSide: Documentary Photography Community is Side’s monthly meet-up for photographers working with documentary images: a relaxed, community-shaped space to share work in progress, talk through ideas, ask questions and advocate for the value of documentary photography together.

Image credit: Washington in a Word…, 1984 ©Janina Struk courtesy of AmberSide Collection