Jem Southam (b1950) is one of the key landscape photographers of the last twenty years. Using a 10 x 8in plate camera, Southam photographs the ever changing aspects of the English landscape, his images reveal his on-going fascination with the landscape of the South West of England. His work plays with the idea of the 'spell' cast by the act of observation, and celebrates the photographic image.

For Tate St Ives, the artist was commissioned to investigate the Cornish Clay Country mines. The la… more