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Jem Southam has an original approach to landscape in which he sees in a more contemporary and documentary way than the more romantic approach of Ansel Adams and others.
In the 1990's I attended a workshop with him and we went to the photographic laboratories in Exeter where he was teaching (University of Plymouth) to learn colour printing from negatives. Things have changed a lot since then with the arrival of digital.
It had taken Jem time to get into using colour owing to the limitations of the medium. eventually he had found that he could create something that he liked rather than be dictated to by the chemistry. This is what we were encouraged to experiment with.
Jem had a thick book about landscape with him; it was obvious that he thought a lot about what he was doing. Conceptual art?
I id try to buy a copy of one of his books from him but he seem quite detatched from selling me one and in the end I never got around to purchasing a copy.
Jem Southam has an original approach to landscape in which he sees in a more contemporary and documentary way than the more romantic approach of Ansel Adams and others.
In the 1990's I attended a workshop with him and we went to the photographic laboratories in Exeter where he was teaching (University of Plymouth) to learn colour printing from negatives. Things have changed a lot since then with the arrival of digital.
It had taken Jem time to get into using colour owing to the limitations of the medium. eventually he had found that he could create something that he liked rather than be dictated to by the chemistry. This is what we were encouraged to experiment with.
Jem had a thick book about landscape with him; it was obvious that he thought a lot about what he was doing. Conceptual art?
I id try to buy a copy of one of his books from him but he seem quite detatched from selling me one and in the end I never got around to purchasing a copy.
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