Local events

Exhibitions

BURKE + NORFOLK: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk
Until Saturday 4 February 2012
Side Gallery 5—9 Side, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3JE
John Burke's eloquent images form an extraordinary record of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880). Simon Norfolk travelled to Afghanistan in 2010 in order to follow in his footsteps.
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JANE BOWN: Exposures - a Life in Black and White
Sixty years of Jane Bown's extraordinary portraits for The Observer.
Until Sunday 19 February 2012
DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery, Aykley Heads, Durham, DH1 5TU
Jane Bown has been taking portraits for the Observer newspaper since 1949 and in that time has photographed everyone from Bertrand Russell to the Beatles to Samuel Beckett to the Queen. Working almost exclusively in black and white and with an absolute economy of means, her insightful portraits are immediately recognisable and many have become classics of the genre.
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sceNE Winter 2011: photographs by Roger Clegg, Simon Fraser, Allan Potts and Andrew Whitaker
Until Friday 24 February 2012
The Biscuit Factory, Stoddart Street, Newcastle NE2 1AN

Spirit of Northumberland - its people, places and traditions
Saturday 11 February to Sunday 17 June 2012
Woodhorn Museum, QEII Country Park, Ashington, NE63 9YF
An exhibition by Ashington Co-op Camera Club.

Other events

NCPF events - details at the NCPF Events page

Spectacular
Sunday 29 January 2012

NCPF Club Championship at Washington
Sunday 12 February 2012

RPS events - details at the RPS Northern website

HUNTER KENNEDY: My Style of Photography
Whickham PC, Whickham Community Centre, Whickham NE16 4JL 7.30pm

See also the diary of events being organised by NCPF, its clubs, the PAGB and RPS