![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWdykTp-8EfZoAJMzHxxaU0tIQNHSnVWOU9Y04_exWbfkSfgdgZIdMVKhyphenhyphenk1XQ1-2HChk5ZovofDqrp4GXTO7L5mVJna5dOamRs0K9L4S-27NQE8NwfSF0XxmrbboFW_O0tjEe/s400/f_southamNA01.jpg)
I'm quite fond of the photographs of English photographer Jem Southam. I'm sure in part it's because he depicts places where I lived and grew up. I'm intimately familiar with the chalk cliffs and pebble beaches of the Channel coast, the Dew-ponds of the Downs and the fields and lanes of Devon. It's also the kind of photography that I sometimes like to make.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqbkvRge1_NusxSNfiYix0YON6b-31OJdWK1pRRXP15PLXdViexX6vtJV2BtPswi4Yj-X6Nq0Cb_SP6ihLMAuiphKU9Sbuh8mZsITDDaWwfTjxFb-3AAdIdcWwdssC_Ixa5O48/s400/ph1.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn0lRPCmRBCwN5DHBGQzNfDzDP_d-G7ep0v8eQHha0p4uvyy5EsQ-Rdx3BWr8u_jUJo17fNR6KXFKm0IT30T_deo2pMGGWqjxlQ_u0MRM8i9zO4JeVbc3VTnXVJchv8MWImz5p/s400/ph3.jpg)
There is a quiet and gentle intensity to his work. Seemingly casual, yet able to capture the real essence and feel of a place. (I also love how so many stories about him inaccurately repeat that he uses and 8x10 "plate" camera - as if a regular 8x10 camera is something from the mists of history)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqbkvRge1_NusxSNfiYix0YON6b-31OJdWK1pRRXP15PLXdViexX6vtJV2BtPswi4Yj-X6Nq0Cb_SP6ihLMAuiphKU9Sbuh8mZsITDDaWwfTjxFb-3AAdIdcWwdssC_Ixa5O48/s400/ph1.jpg)
There is a nice interview in SeeSaw Magazine, a short radio interview here and some gallery stuff here and here . The one book of his that I have is Landscape Stories
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn0lRPCmRBCwN5DHBGQzNfDzDP_d-G7ep0v8eQHha0p4uvyy5EsQ-Rdx3BWr8u_jUJo17fNR6KXFKm0IT30T_deo2pMGGWqjxlQ_u0MRM8i9zO4JeVbc3VTnXVJchv8MWImz5p/s400/ph3.jpg)
1 comment:
I really love Jem's work as well. Maybe you already know this, but Nazraeli is publishing his latest book, The Painter's Pool.
http://www.nazraeli.com/nazraeli/newtitle/173-4.html
Post a Comment