Career
Sothern says the photographs are exposés, but they don"t just expose the women in them, they expose the artist behind the camera. "They show that I am who they are." "Scot Sothern Makes this year"s most controversial photobook" | source = – The British Journal of Photography on "Lowlife" in 2011 "Scot Sothern has bravely and empathetically entered a hidden world of humanity. A place where the human condition bares itself on all levels.
This penetrating book of photographs and text will haunt and challenge the viewer." -Roger Ballen Scot Sothern spent 40 unsettled years hustling freelance photography in the United States and abroad.
His first solo exhibit, Lowlife, was held at the Drkrm Gallery in Los Angeles in 2010. His first book, Lowlife, was published in the United Kingdom by Stanley Barker in 2011 and as an ebook by powerHouse Books in The British Journal of Photography called Lowlife, "The years" most controversial photobook." Curb Service: A Memoir, was published by Soft Skull Press in July 2013 and STREETWALKERS was published by powerHouse Books in Sothern has been in solo and group shows in New York City, Miami, and Los Angeles as well as Ottawa, London, Basel and Paris.
Scot writes two regular photo-illustrated columns for Vice Magazine, Sothern Exposure and Nocturnal Submissions 2016, Little Big Manitoba Gallery, Los Angeles, California - STREETWALKERS, Vintage Prints. 2015, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, Florida – SAD CITY - The Way We See lieutenant, Scot Sothern & Muir Vidler.
2010, DRKRM, Los Angeles, United States. 2012, Louisiana Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
2012, The Great Eastern Bear, London, United Kingdom. 2013, DRKRM, Los Angeles, United States. A NEW LOW. 2015, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York City. LOWLIFE, Vintage, 1985 – 1991. 2014, PHOTO Los Angeles – A New Low & LOWLIFE – drkrm Gallery 2013, Space Eight Gallery, Saint Augustine, Florida – Rise of the Art Dorks, group show. 2013, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, Florida – POST COITAL, group show.
2013, Balzer ART pr2ojects – Basel, Switzerland.
SUBVERSIVE NARRATIVES, group show. 2012, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, Florida – EXPLICIT CONTENT, group show.
2011 DRKRM Gallery, Los Angeles, STREET LIFE, a group show. 2011 British Columbia Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, CAPITAL CRIMES, a group show.
2010 New Puppy Gallery, Los Angeles, FRAMED STORIES, group show.
1991 Marge Neikrug Gallery, New York City. RATED X, group show.
