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Another Story // Part One
Another Story // Part One
This is a story decades in the making and years in the telling. It’s set on a hidden smallholding in the far west of Cornwall, where two lovers spent their... Read more...
Exploring Ray's Sheds
Exploring Ray's Sheds
Ray’s Sheds is the second publication by Raft. The book is a photographic study of the seven sheds in which sculptor Ray Exworth (1930-2015) worked in the west of Cornwall.... Read more...
A LAST ACT OF KINDNESS
A LAST ACT OF KINDNESS
On the morning of 19 October last year, as I stood behind my table for the first time at the BOP (Bristol Photobook Fair), I was wondering whether the whole... Read more...
On Starlings
On Starlings
The photographs in Starlings were made on one afternoon in December 2023 at Ham Wall, a wetland wildlife sanctuary managed by the RSPB in Somerset. The images show the stillness... Read more...
Building the Raft
Building the Raft
raft is a new adventure in my life and will hopefully fulfil a dream I have carried with me for 45 years, to make and publish my own books. Ever... Read more...
About Jem Southam
About Jem Southam
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,... Read more...