'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 Amber's Graeme Rigby.

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.

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 by EMI Production Music. Photofilm production Paul Kerley.