Jem Southam?s photographs of the natural world capture the landscape in a continual state of flux. His work catalogues the effects of time, climate and man on the land. Southam returns repeatedly over months or years to the same carefully selected sites, painstakingly creating a frame by frame record of the patterns of change. Southam uses a large 10" by 8" camera meaning that the work can be reproduced on a relatively large scale, with particular sharply focused detail. He is one of the key figures in British photography of the last twenty years. Jem Southam: Cuckmere Haven, 1999
Jem Southam: Cuckmere Haven, 1999