THE HARBOUR - Jem Southam
The end of this professional life, between the late sixties and mid-seventies, left the sculptural presence of the floating port, surrounded by the disused and dilapidated fabric of the docks: cranes, bridges, pumping stations, warehouses and in particular the gigantic bonded warehouses, offices, railroads, terraced houses, shipyards with their dry docks, sand yards.
In The Harbour, Southam documents the disused and neglected infrastructure, a brief period of calm after these centuries of activity, before redevelopment begins in earnest. It is an archival recording of the architectural landscape rather than a meditation on loss. The industrial life of the docks, and all the human stories that flow from it, are preserved in the archive but not mourned.
A selection of this work was exhibited at the Bristol Photo Festival '21.
Published by RRB Photobooks, 2023
30 x 25 cm
104 pages
ISBN: 9781739702328
The end of this professional life, between the late sixties and mid-seventies, left the sculptural presence of the floating port, surrounded by the disused and dilapidated fabric of the docks: cranes, bridges, pumping stations, warehouses and in particular the gigantic bonded warehouses, offices, railroads, terraced houses, shipyards with their dry docks, sand yards.
In The Harbour, Southam documents the disused and neglected infrastructure, a brief period of calm after these centuries of activity, before redevelopment begins in earnest. It is an archival recording of the architectural landscape rather than a meditation on loss. The industrial life of the docks, and all the human stories that flow from it, are preserved in the archive but not mourned.
A selection of this work was exhibited at the Bristol Photo Festival '21.
Published by RRB Photobooks, 2023
30 x 25 cm
104 pages
ISBN: 9781739702328
The end of this professional life, between the late sixties and mid-seventies, left the sculptural presence of the floating port, surrounded by the disused and dilapidated fabric of the docks: cranes, bridges, pumping stations, warehouses and in particular the gigantic bonded warehouses, offices, railroads, terraced houses, shipyards with their dry docks, sand yards.
In The Harbour, Southam documents the disused and neglected infrastructure, a brief period of calm after these centuries of activity, before redevelopment begins in earnest. It is an archival recording of the architectural landscape rather than a meditation on loss. The industrial life of the docks, and all the human stories that flow from it, are preserved in the archive but not mourned.
A selection of this work was exhibited at the Bristol Photo Festival '21.
Published by RRB Photobooks, 2023
30 x 25 cm
104 pages
ISBN: 9781739702328
