Month: September 2016

Side Gallery Reopens After Major Redevelopment With Childhoods Photography Exhibition

The only photography venue in the UK exclusively devoted to documentary photography, Side Gallery closed in 2015 for a major redevelopment. Last summer 60,000 people came to see For Ever Amber, the retrospective of the extraordinary AmberSide Collection at Newcastle’s Laing Art Gallery. Finally after a year and a half, Amber has got its gallery back, representing a new chapter in the film and photography collective’s history.

30 September 2016

Peter van Agtmael Revisits Ten Years of Photographing the Wars of Iraq and Afghanistan

Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael was already taking a very personal approach to photographing the European migration crisis when the agency started work on its major group project – photographing one family as they fled from Syria to Northern Europe. Diane Smyth finds out more about the story, how it was made, and what the photographer hopes it can do.

28 September 2016

Shooting from the inside out – the rock & roll photography of Michael Zagaris

A new collection documents the rock & roll imagery of Californian photographer, Michael Zagaris during the 1970s. Including images of The Clash, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Blondie, The Sex Pistols, Bob Dylan and many others, the archive provides a revealing and intimate insight into this unique scene at a time of hedonistic abandon. BJP sat down with the photographer to discuss a collection that claims to be the ‘last untouched rock archive.’

27 September 2016