{"id":641021,"date":"2026-10-25T16:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T16:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641021\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T16:38:13","slug":"newcastle-amberside-show-opens-with-call-to-young-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641021\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle AmberSide show opens with call to young photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new exhibition exploring how a city has changed over time has coincided with an open call for young photographers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under Development: What Happens When Cities Change? has opened at Newcastle Contemporary Art gallery, featuring images which span more than 50 years from the AmberSide Collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Running alongside the exhibition, submissions have opened for Newcastle Now, which has asked photographers under 25 to capture their changing surroundings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Creative director of AmberSide, Ellen Stone, said she hoped the archive would be a &#8220;stronger resource&#8221; following the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The exhibition also features photographs from Four Corners Archive based in Tower Hamlets in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">AmberSide said as both areas grew through river trade and industry, both saw large areas of working-class housing cleared and rebuilt and were hit hard by the loss of industries that had shaped them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stone said the exhibition was particularly important today, as both areas were once again going through a period of regeneration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new exhibition exploring how a city has changed over time has coincided with an open call for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-641021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}