Sam Laughlin

Gathering Light (Gameshope) Triptych by Sam Laughlin Featuring: [ 01 ] Birch [ 02 ] Waterfall [ 03 ] Stars A limited edition print series to coincide with the release of Gathering Light by Sam Laughlin published by Jane & Jeremy. The prints can be bought individually or as part of a triptych with ‘Waterfall (Gameshope)’ and ‘Stars (Gameshope)’. Photographer Sam Laughlin shot these images as part of a residency in Scotland in 2024 where The Borders Forest Trust are restoring the land. The three images selected for the print edition are all shot in the valley of Gameshope, each focusing on the passage of time manifested in something different: movement of water, wind in the trees and our planets rotation visible in the stars. Final chance to visit this work in person. Book now via the gallery website. We are hosting private viewings of all our artwork tomorrow Saturday 11 April for those that would like to own a special piece from our exhibitions. Please get in touch to reserve your place or acquire a beautiful work just for you. @samlaughlin90 @_janeandjeremy

Works from ‘Gathering Light’, 2024. Tonight at @serchiagallery in Bristol. I will be in conversation with @_janeandjeremy Copies of ‘Gathering Light’ will be available to browse / purchase and there will be prints and other beautiful things to look at. J&J are celebrating 20 years in publishing and will have plenty of rare titles from their catalogue (a chance not to be missed for the photobook lovers out there). RSVP essential via the gallery website. See you there! ‘Gathering Light’ was made during my residency with @bordersforesttrust supported by @tweedriverculture @southernuplandspartnership

A week today (26th Feb) at @serchiagallery I will be in conversation with @_janeandjeremy about my book ‘Gathering Light’, which is a distillation of the body of work I made during my residency with @tweedriverculture @bordersforesttrust Jane & Jeremy are also celebrating their 20th year in publishing, so will have a host of beautiful and rare titles from their catalogue. Hope to see you there. RSVP essential via the gallery website. Serchia Gallery, Elmgrove Road, Bristol Thursday 26th Feb, 6-8pm

GATHERING LIGHT By Sam Laughlin with Jane & Jeremy. We are delighted to team up with Brighton-based independent publisher and design studio Jane & Jeremy to present their latest limited edition publication Gathering Light by our friend, recent artist-in-residence, and photographer Sam Laughlin. Join us, Thursday 26 February from 18.00 to 20.00 for a very special artist talk by Sam with Jane & Jeremy, followed by a book signing, and mini exhibition of Gathering Light. We are also overjoyed to host a special celebration of twenty years of Jane & Jeremy featuring a curation of their beautiful limited edition publications which will be on view at our gallery reading room throughout the month. Space and copies of the limited edition publication are incredibly limited, so be sure to book early via linkinbio or the gallery website to avoid disappointment. As ever, the event is complimentary with an option to donate to the gallery. We look forward to welcoming you back to the gallery and sharing this beautiful new work with you in the company of Sam, Jane, and Jeremy. @samlaughlin90 @_janeandjeremy @serchiagallery #serchiagallery

‘Birch (Gameshope)’ from our new title ‘Gathering Light’ by @samlaughlin90 • A limited edition print series to coincide with the release of ‘Gathering Light’. The print can be bought individually or as part of a triptych with ‘Waterfall (Gameshope)’ and ‘Stars (Gameshope)’. • Photographer Sam Laughlin shot these images as part of a residency in Scotland in 2024 where the @bordersforesttrust are restoring the land. • The three images selected for the print edition are all shot in the valley of Gameshope, each focusing on the passage of time manifested in something different: movement of water, wind in the trees and our planets rotation visible in the stars. • Link in bio to purchase @tweedriverculture #samlaughlin

This is a woodland becoming Lengthening stems, unfurling leaves Nothing remains still As the earth rotates on its tilted axis • From our new title ‘Gathering Light’ by @samlaughlin90 #samlaughlin #janeandjeremy

From our new title ‘Gathering Light’ by @samlaughlin90 • “In an abundance of northern light, soaked up and accumulated by the growing trees, I began to see photography and photosynthesis as analogous to one another. Day by day I watched the sun’s path rise to its midsummer zenith. At night I bathed in the light of ancient summers, released from the embers of a fallen Ash tree.” — Sam Laughlin • First edition of 300 that comes with a signed print #samlaughlin

We are very happy to unveil our latest title ‘Gathering Light’ by Sam Laughlin. • ‘Gathering Light’ is a response to a landscape in the uplands of Southern Scotland undergoing a programme of ecological restoration which has seen over two million native trees planted by Borders Forest Trust, a charity established to restore native habitats. • @samlaughlin90 process quietly and diligently gathers, photographically, the landscape and its inhabitants, creating a meditation on this specific area as it rebalances. This body of work is characterised by a sustained and informed engagement with the land, light and time. Laughlin spent six weeks living off-grid as part of a residency with Borders Forest Trust supported by Connecting Threads and The Southern Uplands Partnership. • The book is a first edition of 300 and comes with a signed print. Link in profile to purchase. @bordersforesttrust @tweedriverculture #samlaughlin #janeandjeremy

@_janeandjeremy here and we have a new book for BOP! • We are looking forward to launching ‘Gathering Light’ by @samlaughlin90 at @bop_bristol • The book surveys the uplands of Southern Scotland where Sam spent 6 weeks living off-grid as part of a residency with @bordersforesttrust supported by @tweedriverculture and @southernuplandspartnership • Sam’s process quietly and diligently gathers, photographically, the landscape and its inhabitants around him, creating a meditation on a specific landscape. • On his latest project ‘Gathering Light’ Sam captures in his own words “the changes slowly unfolding at differing physical and temporal scales, linked to the seasons, cycles and processes of nature. In a place where water is always falling – as rain or dew, soaking through peat, flowing downhill in the burns – the trees defy gravity, transporting water upwards from root to stem, swelling their leaves to gather the sun.” • We look forward to seeing you all in October!

My solo exhibition ‘Gathering Light’ is currently on at Dawyck Studio @dawyck until 4th May. This new series is the result of my incredible residency with @bordersforesttrust supported by @tweedriverculture and @southernuplandspartnership The work feels like a significant step in my practice, rooted as it is in one specific landscape and the natural processes happening within it. Over the course of 6 weeks living off-grid in Southern Scotland I responded in various ways to the evolving habitats and ecologies of land being restored by Borders Forest Trust (who have planted over 2 million trees as part of their extensive habitat restoration work). It is a diverse and experimental body of work, which reflects the diversity of the landscapes being restored by BFT. I’ve been rather quiet about ‘Gathering Light’ so far, having needed time to let the series percolate. It is not currently online, so for now, if you want to see it please head to @dawyck whose beautiful gardens are now fully open again after the devastation wrought by various winter storms. Thank you to all involved, but especially @catriona_patience @tikimuir @rhiana__laws Emily Cropton and everyone else at Connecting Threads and Borders Forest Trust. Big thank you to @jamieemurray for the beautiful frames, @boomphotobristol for the printing and @josephjosephglover for his help with the install. The show is produced to the highest standard and I’m very proud of the work.

🎉 Now open! 🍂 Sam Laughlin’s wonderful exhibition, Gathering Light, is now open and free to visit every day of the week at Dawyck Botanic Gardens until 4th May. 🦅 Alongside the exhibition, we’ve produced a small publication that includes some of Sam’s gorgeous black and white photography, his poetry and info on bird species spotted during his 2024 Wild Heart artist residency, run by Connecting Threads in partnership with Borders Forest Trust. ✏️ The publication has been beautifully designed by the brilliant Emily Macaulay from Stanley James Press and includes a small map of the Wild Heart designed by Emily too. 📷 Gathering Light is the first solo exhibition in Scotland for artist and photographer Sam Laughlin. Taking place at Dawyck Botanic Garden, Gathering Light includes some of the experimental photographic works that Sam made in response to the Wild Heart, a landscape of diverse upland habitats in the South of Scotland, currently undergoing a programme of ecological restoration thanks to Borders Forest Trust. 🌲 Sam was the Wild Heart artist in residence from June to September 2024. During that time, he immersed himself in the area’s developing ecologies by living off-grid in the Wild Heart. 🍃 The exhibition title draws a parallel between photography and photosynthesis: both camera and leaves offer ways of gathering light. As he responded to the area’s evolving habitat mosaic, Laughlin was especially drawn to themes of light, water, growth and time. ☀️ Sam himself says: "I wanted to create works through which we can see the world in new ways, ways only possible because of photography. Some of these took hours or even days to create. On the summer solstice I made one exposure which distilled every moment of light from the longest day into a single photograph (around 18.5 hours)." 📍 Sam Laughlin, Gathering Light Dawyck Botanic Garden 📅 1 February – 4 May Mon-Sun, 10am – 4pm 🚫 Unfortunately, the gardens themselves remain closed following damage caused by Storm Eowyn. Please follow Dawyck directly for updates on the gardens. @destinationtweeduk @southernuplandspartnership @dawyck @samlaughlin90 @bordersforesttrust @stanleyjamespres

Very pleased to say that ‘Spinning Away’ has been nominated for the @prix_pictet Many thanks to Martin Barnes @vamuseum for the nomination, it means a lot. The shortlist of 12 photographers will be announced at Arles this year.