Landscape photography by Jem Southam
Jem Southam, born in Bristol in 1950, is one of the UK's leading photographers. He is renowned for his series of colour landscape photographs, beginning in the 1970s and continuing until the present. His trademark is the patient observation of changes at a single location over many months or years.
Southam's subjects are predominately situated in the South West of England where he lives and works. He observes the balance between nature and man's intervention and traces cycles of decay and renewal. His work combines topographical observation with other references: personal, cultural, political, scientific, literary and psychological. Southam's working method combines the predetermined and the intuitive. Seen together, his series suggest the forging of pathways towards visual and intellectual resolution.
Southam uses a large format camera to produce 8 x 10 inch (20.5 x 25.5 cm) negatives that record a high level of detail. C-type prints are made from these. When the pictures are enlarged from the negatives, under supervision at a commercial lab, they reveal an entrancing wealth of information. Others are 'contact printed' (placing the negative directly onto the photographic paper) by Southam himself, deliberately to achieve a contrasting intensity and intimacy.
British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age
31 March–12 August 2012
Showcasing over 300 British design objects, this exhibition celebrates the best of British post-war art and design from the 1948 ‘Austerity Games' to the summer of 2012.
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Photography: An Independent Art, Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1839-1996
A hundred photographs illustrate the evolution and significance of photography from its early beginnings to the present, including fine examples of work by Julia Margaret Cameron, Man Ray, Bill Brandt, David Bailey, Nan Goldin and
Buy nowEvent - Introduction to Fashion Photography
Fri 15 June 2012 10:30

DIGITAL WORKSHOP:
Friday 15 – Saturday 16 June, 10.30 – 17.00
Working with models, Anomalous Visuals will help you to understand the fundamentals of fashion photography and post production techniques such as lighting, digital workflow and retouching in Photoshop.


























