Jem Shoutham

Jem Southam is a British landscape photographer, born in Bristol in 1950. He studied creative photography at the London college of printing then worked at a gallery in Bristol from 1976 to 1982. Southam conducts long-term studies that trace over seasons and sometimes several years. His first project was in black and white, ‘The floating harbour’: a Landscape History of Bristol City Docks.

Fay Godwin

Fay Godwin was born in Berlin, Germany in 1931 and died in Hastings England in 2005. She first produced portraits of dozens of well-known writers and significant literary figures in the 1970’s and 80’s. In the 1990’s she was offered a fellowship at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford. This pushed her work in the direction of colour and urban documentary. She began taking photos of close-up natural forms

“My way into photography was through family snaps in the mid-1960s. I had no formal training, but after the snaps came portraits, reportage, and finally, through my love of walking, landscape photography, all in black and white. A Fellowship with the National Museum of Photography in Bradford led to urban landscape in colour, and very personal close-up work in colour has followed”.— Fay Godwin, ca. 2000

Don McCullin

Don McCullin was born in London in 1935. He has mild dyslexia but displayed a talent for drawing at the secondary modern school he went to. He later won a scholarship to Hammersmith school of Arts and Crafts, but because of the death of his father he left school at 15 and had no qualifications. Later on, in 1953 he was called up for national service with the Royal Air Force. Most of the images that McCullin has taken are related to war as he was part of the Air Force and was involved in different wars. He also photographed the land in his home town of Somerset, photographing marsh land and flooded areas.