Max Southern is an artist based in London.
He works primarily with single photographs, approaching the frame as a space of intention in which objects, figures and spaces can be placed to construct specific images.

b. 2000, North Shields

Lives and works in London

Contact

Max@maxsouthern.co.uk

@s.thrn

Exhibitions

Attention without Object, Candid Arts Trust, London, 2025

Incheon Photography Festival, South Korea, 2025

Test Site, Ambika P3, London, 2025

Work in Progress, London Gallery West, London, 2025

Shapes and Things, The Projection Room Soho, London, 2024

Shapes and Things, AMP Studios, London, 2023

(Re)structure x Newhaven, Brighton Photo Fringe, 2022

University of Brighton Degree Show, 2022

Palm Photo Prize 2022, 10 14 Gallery, London

Intermission, University of Brighton, 2021

Education

MA Expanded Photography, University of Westminster, 2024-2025

Photography BA(Hons), University of Brighton, 2019-2022

Talks / Interactions / Press

Source Magazine, Issue 120, Winter 2025

Fluter Magazine, Issue No.91, Summer 2024

Source Graduate Photography Online, June 2022

Photoworks Youth Photography Club, Artist Talk, May 2022

Palm Photo Prize 2022, Shortlisted

@Spectrumlab Instagram Takeover with (re)structure, February 2022

Brighton Photo Fringe, ‘First Mondays’ Talk, December 2021

All Images © Max Southern, 2026