John Davies
John Davies has gained a reputation for his large scale country and urban landscape. In 1980s he started to document urban Britian, concentrating on the changes made by the industrial and post industrial His large format photos are refined almost rigid, pure black and white images, which usually emphasise the hugeness of natural space and industrial architecture, making humans in the frame look dwarf.
His pictures often reflect a humanist outlook, concerned to explore the impact of the environment on the people in the pictures. Landscape can be a sense of power to symbolise and evoke. Images of land, water and sky can reflect humans emotion and spiritual states. Landscape can also represent power in terms or land ownership and material wealth. John's work belongs to contemporary documentary photography with the use of subtle, pure black and white, analytic style.
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