JOHN Grimshaw, Founder and Director of Sustrans, the UK's leading sustainable transport charity, will demonstrate his knowledge of the Cumbrian coast, the subject matter of The Lowry's latest exhibition – Cloud Descending – when he speaks at the official opening tomorrow, Wednesday, November 12.
Commissioned by The Lowry, leading landscape photographer Jem Southam has been re-tracing Lowry's footsteps along the Cumbrian coastline, resulting in a remarkable series of images, focusing on the remnants of the area's long and significant industri
al past.
Like LS Lowry, Jem has been observing and recording the industrial landscapes and harbour towns of this area, in particular Maryport, Whitehaven, Workington, Sellafield and Barrow, pictured. His trademark patient observation of changes over many months or years, means that he slowly develops an intimate knowledge of the site, capturing the marks of time (both industrial and natural) embedded in his chosen terrain.
Renowned for photographing the ever changing aspects of the English landscape, Jem uses a large-format camera to produce C-type prints from 8 x 10 inch negatives that record a high level of detail. When the pictures are enlarged from the negatives, under supervision at a commercial lab, they reveal an entrancing wealth of information.
Others are 'contact printed' (placing the negative directly onto the photographic paper) by Southam himself, deliberately to achieve a contrasting intensity and intimacy.
Jem has taken various contributors in a range of different specialist fields on walks with him to the sites that he has been photographing and asked them to make a response to the place which will also be shown in the exhibition.
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