I have been digging around the current of Neo-Romaticism in post-1945 British photography with its emphasis on the British landscape place, nature reclaiming ruins, history-in-landscape and environmental concerns. This current can be interpreted as continuing the 19th century romantics critique of the ugly' modern world of machines and industrial capitalism, new cities, and the market place.

These figures include Fay Goodwin, James Ravilious, Raymond Moore, Andy Goldsworthy Jem Southam and John Davies. The body of work that appealed to me the most was that of Jem Southam, who lectures in photography at the Exeter school of Art and Design, and who uses a Wista 8x10 field camera.

Southam's Rockfalls of Normandy continue his project of representing the landscape in a continual state of flux--- the effects of time, climate and human beings on some twenty rural, urban and industrial locations, principally in the South and South West of England.

Southam's photographs bear witness to the physical transformations the sites are subjected to, from coastline erosion to the growth of a pond, thereby highlighting the natural forces at play whilst simultaneously emphasising the changing world in which we live.

According to this interview in SeeSaw magazine Southam's photographs y are structured in a series that are built up over time, through returning to the same site again and again over several years.