Side Gallery
Previous Exhibitions
An internationally-renowned gallery that has been celebrating the best in documentary photography since it opened in 1977. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm, Free.
Side Gallery is committed to documentary in the tradition of the concerned photographer. Exhibitions include Amber production, commissions and historical and contemporary work from around the world that inspires us. Talks and events are organised around most of the exhibitions. There is a range of photography books, posters, postcards and prints for sale, along with Amber films on DVD and VHS.
Exhibitions 1977 to 1999
Complete Side Gallery exhibitions from its opening in 1977 to 1994, followed by an outline of activity between 1995 and 1999.
For most of it I have no words by Simon Norfolk
Friday 18 June 1999 to Sunday 8 August 1999
Simon Norfolk's harrowing exhibition is a catalogue of twentieth century sites of atrocity. more...
This Man’s Army by Martin Figura
Saturday 14 August 1999 to Sunday 10 October 1999
Figura's portraits explore class and identity, family and social order within the closely defined (at times claustrophobic) contexts of Army life. more...
An Interrupted Journey by Giovanni Diffidenti
Saturday 16 October 1999 to Sunday 28 November 1999
Since 1991, Diffidenti has been photographing landmine victims all over the world. These images are from Angola. more...
Ten Days in Tiananmen Square by Bob Gannon
4 December 1999 to 23 January 2000
*Photography can be an excuse. It's the excuse I had to get me to a country I have always wanted to see. Like many people, I never thought that that desire would be realised (for many it never will) more...
La Realidad by Mara Catalan
Saturday 29 January 2000 to Sunday 12 March 2000
Life in a Zapatista village in Mexico's Chiapas State, opening up on a struggle that has its roots in the history of colonialism more...
Panos Pictures
Saturday 18 March 2000 to Sunday 30 April 2000
Work by photographers from the photo agency reporting on human rights and current affairs in the Third World and in Eastern Europe more...
Writing in the Sand by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Saturday 13th May to Sunday 2nd July 2000
The exhibition that was developed to launch the book - 25 years of photographing the life on north-east beaches. more...
Dream Series by Martin Weber
11th July 2000 to 3rd September 2000
This exhibition is a selection from Martin Weber's "Dream Series" of beautiful black and white photographs of his native Latin Americans, which also incorporate text. Chalked blackboards contain words representing the dreams and aspirations of the people in the photographs, ranging from a desire to be "the best" or "a football coach" to simply displaying the word "love" more...
Notes from Afghanistan by Chris Steele-Perkins
7th September 2000 to 29th October 2000
Chris writes: I first went to Afghanistan in 1994 on an assignment for Medecins Sans Frontieres. It had long held a place in my imagination, going back to the days of the hippy trail. The reality, as always, was completely different and infinitely more compelling. It was heroic, beautiful, violent, twisted, gracious and tragic. The experience of being there works its way narcotically into one's being: an infection of the soul demanding that you return. more...