This image, taken in 1979 by Tish Murtha, was part of a series entitled Youth Unemployment
More than 150 photographs and film clips capturing nearly half a century of life in the North East of England have gone on show.
The images, belonging to the Amber Films collective, capture cultural, political and economic changes in the region.
Titled For Ever Amber, the work is rooted in social documentary.
The exhibition opened at Newcastle's Laing Art gallery at the weekend and runs until 19 September.
Amber Films member Graeme Rigby said: "When Amber set out to do this it may be they didn't realise the extent of the changes that were coming, but that is what has been captured."
By Jindrich Streit, this 1995 photograph shows a youngster in a city back lane
This image is another in Tish Murtha's Youth Unemployment series
Newcastle photographer Jimmy Forsyth took this image of a Pine Street demolition gang in 1960
From 1974, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's photograph shows a barber's shop in Byker
From 1992, Peter Fryer's picture is titled Peaceable Kingdoms
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