Thu, Apr 4, 2013

John Davies
My portrait photographer that I chose was a man by the name of John Davies. Born in County Durham, England in 1949, Davies went on to become one of Britain's best photographers and was the first photographer to be commissioned by the Museum of London in 2002. John now lives with his partner and his daughter in Liverpool, United Kingdom. John Davies started his photography career first at Mansfield School of Arts, but he transferred to Trent Polytechnic and graduated there in 1974. Following school he worked on long term projects seekin commissions and Art funding to support his work. Davies worked closely with Amber/Side Collective as a commercial photographer. A lot of his work was inspired by the coal mining and farming community of Durham, where he grew up. This combination of open space and industry were the topics of most of his pictures. I chose his work because the buildings in the picture emulate the cooling towers in Somerset. Although there are four towers instead of two in his picture I believed I could get a good enough shot of the cooling towers to emulate the picture.