CV

CV – Scot Sothern

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

 

FAMILY TREE 1975-1980

Photos & Stories

Published by These Days, 2022

Softcover and Spiral-bound,  124pg

Edition of 200

 

HELL BENT

Photographs & Conversation

Scot Sothern & Miron Zownir

Published by These Days, 2022

Edition of 200

 

LITTLE MISS

Words and Photographs by Scot Sothern

Published by drkrm Editions, 2019

Hardcover

Edition of 50

ISBN 978-0-578-45513-6

 

BIG CITY, A Novel

Published by Stalking Horse Press

March 2017

ISBN 0997062975

 

STREETWALKERS

Photographs & Stories

Published by powerHouse Books

January 2016

ISBN 978-1576877616

 

SAD CITY

Published by Straylight Press

December 2015

ISBN 978-0-9939605-1-2

 

AN AMERICAN LOWLIFE

A Digital Photo Book

Published by PowerHouse Books

August, 2013

 

CURB SERVICE, a Memoir

Published by Soft Skull Press

July 16, 2013

ISBN 978-1593765200.

 

LOWLIFE

Published by Stanley Barker Books, London. 2011

ISBN 978-0-9569922-0-8

 

MONO

Published by Gomma Magazine and Dnatch Publishing

A hardcover collection of Black & White Photography

Edited by Luca Desienna

Contributing Photographer

November - 2012

 

 

EXHIBITIONS:

 

2022 Gallery 30 South – Pasadena, CA /Las Vegas - IDENTITY, solo show, Ambrotype & Inkjet Composites

 

2022 Trash Lamb Gallery – San Diego, CA, Group Show, TIMELINE JUMPING

 

2022 These Days - Generations, a solo show, Family Tree Vintage Chibachrome prints; IDENTITY, antique ambrotype plates with contemporary archival transparencies

 

2018 The Door Gallery, Hollywood, CA. Group show and literary reading

 

2018 Cal State University, Dominguez Hills, CA, Flesh & Stone, Paired Photos, Scot Sothern & Andy Romanoff

 

2017 Noh/Wave Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, I AM a group exhibition, Vintage Prints and New Work

 

2016, Little Big Man Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - Streetwalkers, Vintage Prints

 

2015, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL – Sad City - The Way We See It, Scot Sothern & Muir Vidler

 

2010, DRKRM, Los Angeles, US

 

2012, La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

 

2012, The Great Eastern Bear, London, UK

 

2013, DRKRM, Los Angeles, US. A New Low

 

2015, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, NYC Lowlife, Vintage, 1985 – 1991

 

2014, Photo LA – A New Low & Lowlife – drkrm Gallery

 

2013, Space Eight Gallery, St. Augustine, FL – Rise of the Art Dorks, group show

 

2013, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL – Post Coital, group show

 

2013, Balzer ART projects – Basel, Switzerland, Subversive Narratives, group show

 

2012, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL – Explicit Content, group show

 

2011 DRKRM Gallery, Los Angeles, Street Life, a group show

 

2011 BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, Capital Crimes, a group show

 

2010 New Puppy Gallery, Los Angeles, Framed Stories, group show

 

1991 Marge Neikrug Gallery, NYC. Rated X, group show

 

 

PRESS

 

LA WEEKLY

Meet Lowlife Photographer Scot Sothern

Shana Nys Dambrot

June 6, 2022

 

DANGEROUS MINDS

Paul Gallagher

‘Generations’: Exclusive interview with legendary photographer Scot Sothern

May, 2022

 

 

PhotoBook Journal -March 1, 2019

LITTLE MISS, The Book

Review by Gerhard Clausing

 

ISSUE MAGAZINE

Scot Sothern  - STREETWALKERS

February, 2016

 

Get Down Town

STREETWALKERS

February 10, 2016

 

The Airship -Longform

Follow Your Hard On

Photographs - Interview – Story - Interview

 

L'Oeil de la Photographic

SAD CITY, the Book

November 24, 2015

 

L'Oeil de la Photographic

Scot Sothern & Muir Vidler : The Way You See ItA la Mindy Solomon Gallery

November 5, 2015

 

REVIEW - Collector Daily - Scot Sothern, Lowlife at Daniel Coney Gallery, Jan 28, 2015.

 

 Miami Herald - December 1, 2015

MINDY SOLOMON GALLERY: ‘THE WAY WE SEE IT’

Mindy Solomon is one of the first contemporary galleries to have moved into the developing arts area of Little Haiti/Little River, opening in September. Her Art Basel exhibit is a particularly strong photography show, with the work of Scot Sothern leaving the most searing portraiture.

Sothern himself could be the focus of the camera for much of his eclectic, nomadic life, hustling his photography on the Los Angeles streets for 40 years until an L.A. gallery gave him a show in 2010 titled “LOWLIFE.” His career then took off.

That’s a hint as to what his favorite subject matter is: the underclass that we turn our eyes from, those people who sleep on sidewalks and hawk their wares from seedy hotel rooms and street corners. What makes the images so visceral is that Sothern is not just an observer, he knows this hard-scrabble life.

 

GUP MAGAZINE

SAD CITY

October 13th, 2015

L'Oeil de la Photographic

Scot Sothern - Than & Now

L'Oeil de la Photographie Profile

 

Animal - Online Magazine

September 12, 2012

I Shouldn't Have Shot That

 

AMERICAN SUBURB X – March, 2010 - The Cake In The Rain, Illustrated short story

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/03/scot-southern-lowlife.

 

ANTIQUE CHILDREN; A Mischievous Literary Arts Journal

Quarterly Issue: Revolt Of The Underdogs. May, 2011

Photos and Literary Vignettes from LOWLIFE, the book.

http://antiquechildren.com/underdogs.html

 

FOTOTAZO

Photographers on Photographers: Connecting Then to Now by Scot Sothern

Fototazo, Connecting Then To Now

 ANIMAL Online Magazine - May 2012

I Should Have Shot That

I Should Have Shot That

 

KIRKUS REVIEW - CURB SERVICE - June 15 - 2013

 

Barry W Hughes

Lowlife: The Great American Other

originally published in HotShoe magazine, issue 178, 2012

 

BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

November 2011

HOTSHOE

October 2011

LOWLIFE, Review by Miranda Gavin

 

LOS ANGELES TIMES

November 17, 2011  

FRAMEWORK by Kathy M.Y. Pyon

 “Lowlife,” the work of Scot Sothern. Do not take your kids to this. This work is graphic and immediately raw. It is cynical and dangerous and says so much in such condensed landscape. Sothern immersed headfirst into this sliver of the population unlike most people could never imagine, as a patron, and made photographs with a level of exclusive access that is bold and a little hard to comprehend. The stories behind each image presented weaves in a tremendous amount of texture and background. I particularly liked the brief descriptions.  The tales oozed so much power to the imagery.

 

PHOTO-EYE MAGAZINE

December 2011

LOWLIFE, Review by Colin Pantall

PhotoEye Lowlife Review

 

 

ART TACO, Online

April 28, 2012

Explicit Content, Review

 

OTTAWA CITIZEN

Sex Slaves and Prostitutes At La Petite Mort

September 6, 2012

 

 

 

 

COLUMNIST:

 

VICE MAGAZINE 2015 – 2016

Nocturnal Submissions – Sothern Exposure

 

WORK:

 

1970 – 1990 - Freelance photography – Tallahassee Florida, Los Angeles, Saudi Arabia, NYC.

 

1990 – 2010 – Stay-At-Home-Father