Based in south-west England, Southam is one of the UK’s leading landscape photographers. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he started to document Bristol Harbour, which had become forlorn following a period of postwar decline. The resulting collection of large-format photographs captured a vital record of an area which has now been redeveloped beyond recognition.
Although a book of the work was published in 1983, a new volume has just gone on sale. Featuring 58 large-format photographs, The Harbour will present Southam’s unique record to a wider audience. We found out more about the book, and the project which spawned it, from Southam himself.
What was your route into photography?
I studied at the London College of Printing for a Higher Diploma in Creative Photography
