Highlights
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Jem Southam: The Seventh Winter. Installation View
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Jem Southam. The North Wall of the Fjord, Milford Sound, New Zealand, Autumn (2018)
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Jem Southam: The Seventh Winter. Installation view
The Works
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Jem Southam
Vaucottes #1, from the series ‘Rockfalls of Normandy’
2005-2010
Contact print
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Jem Southam
Vaucottes #2, from the series ‘Rockfalls of Normandy’
2005-2010
Contact print
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Jem Southam
Vaucottes #3, from the series ‘Rockfalls of Normandy’
2005-2010
Contact print
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Jem Southam
Vaucottes #4, from the series ‘Rockfalls of Normandy’
2005-2010
Contact print
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Jem Southam
06:52:12 17 March
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
06:53:12 17 March
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
07:31:26 18 March
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
07:42:40 26 February
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
06:44:17 14 March
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
06:49:19 17 March
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
08:03:16 18 March
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
08:53:14 14 January
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
07:13:13 26 February
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
06:48:38 14 March
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
06:32:36 17 March
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
08:37:31 10 January
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
07:26:39 26 February
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
07:32:55 26 February
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
09:17:12 14 January
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
07:50:23 26 February
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
07:36:39 26 February
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
06:52:58 17 March
2022
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
Sotteville-sur-Mer, February
2006
Inkjet print
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Jem Southam
Les Petites Dalles, April
2006
Inkjet print
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Jem Southam
Senneville-sur-Fecamp, April
2006
Inkjet print
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Jem Southam
Senneville-sur-Fecamp, May
2008
Inkjet print
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Jem Southam
Senneville-sur-Fecamp, May
2008
Inkjet print
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Jem Southam
Seaford, Sussex, November
2006
Inkjet print
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Jem Southam
Vaucottes, March
2005
Inkjet print
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Jem Southam
Vaucottes, November
2005
Inkjet print
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Jem Southam
St Pierre-en-Port, April
2006
Inkjet print
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Jem Southam
Base of a Rain Cascade, Milford Sound, New Zealand, Autumn
2018
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
The North Wall of the Fjord, Milford Sound, New Zealand, Autumn
2018
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
Dusk, Point Kean, The Kaikoura Peninsula, New Zealand, Autumn
2018
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
Rain Cascades, Mountains, Fjordland, New Zealand, Autumn
2018
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
A Sudden Squall, The Stirling Falls, Milford Sound, New Zealand, Autumn
2018
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
Clearing Rain, The Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand, Autumn
2018
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
Ice Calf, Glacial Lake Below Mount Cook, New Zealand, Autumn
2018
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
Rain, Milford Sound, New Zealand, Autumn
2018
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
Spray, Belmont Falls, Milford Sound, New Zealand, Autumn
2018
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
North Wall of Fjord, Milford Sound, New Zealand, Autumn
2018
Archival pigment print
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Jem Southam
The Mouth of the Okarito River and the Tasman Sea, New Zealand, Autumn
2018
Archival pigment print
Jem Southam
B. United Kingdom1950
B. United Kingdom1950
Biography
Jem Southam’s richly detailed works document subtle changes and transitions of the South West English landscape, allowing the artist to explore cycles of life and death through spring and winter, and also to reveal the subtlest of human interventions in the natural landscape. His work is characterised by its balance of poetry and lyricism within a documentary practice.
Southam’s works exclusively in series, with bodies of work including Bristol City Docks (1977 – 1984); Paintings of West Cornwall (1982 – 1986); The Red River (1982-1987); The Raft of Carrots (1992); The Shape of Time: Rockfalls, Rivermouths and Ponds (2000); and Upton Pyne and the Red River (2007). Southam’s early and seminal body of work The Red River followed a small stream in the West of Cornwall from source to sea, documenting the legacy of tin mining on the river’s valley and the people who live there.
His 2012 series The River – Winter investigated how the concept of winter is embedded in society’s shared imagination. The series traced the passage of a single winter, following the path of the river Exe and its tributaries in Devon. The Moth (2018), revisits sites from The Red River made almost two decades earlier. Inspired by the old English poems ‘The Wanderer’ and ‘The Seafarer’, the series moves freely between interior and exterior, from sweeping vistas to quiet, overlooked details of rural life. Southam’s 2018 series The Long White Cloud is the result of a six-week journey to document the landscapes of both the North and South Islands of New Zealand. The photographs in this series show his continued fascination with the subtleties of colour, with reflection and transience, and with the effects of the shifting seasons and weather on the landscape. Exploring notions of the sublime in the varied natural landscapes of New Zealand, these photographs accentuate the connections between the drama of nature to the inherent mythologies of the land.
Born in Bristol in 1950, Southam has had solo exhibitions at The Photographers Gallery, London, Tate St Ives, Cornwall and The Victoria & Albert Museum, London. His work is held in many important collections, including those of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Museum Folkwang, Essen, the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, and the The Victoria & Albert Museum. He is currently Professor of Photography at the University of Plymouth.
Discover
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- (Oct 16, 2020)Jem Southam:The Long White Cloud, New ZealandIn: In Depth
- (Apr 07, 2020)Lives Of Artists:with Jem SouthamIn: In Conversation
- (Mar 25, 2020)Jem Southam:RockfallsIn: In Depth
- (Jan 28, 2019)Jem Southam:The Long White CloudIn: Film
Exhibitions
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