Jack Davison
Photographs
- PhotographerJack Davison
SØREN SOLKÆR In his practice, he draws inspiration from the rich history of the photographic medium, from surrealism to early modernism. His work and use of colour also has a strong painterly quality to it. The mysterious qualities of Davison’s photographs can obscure and reveal something of its subject at the same time offering us a whole new perspective on objects and subjects we often think we already know.
Photographs - A book by Jack Davison
Published by Loose Joints, Photographs brings together more than a decade of work by British artist Jack Davison, tracing his practice from 2007 to the present. The book charts Davison’s evolution as a self-taught photographer who approaches the medium with the instinct of a painter, allowing intuition and chance to guide his images.
His photographs often excavate the surreal and the sensual from the fabric of daily life. Working with chiaroscuro and the power of photography to both obscure and reveal, Davison moves between crisp detail and dissolving abstraction, crafting images that invert, submerge, and transform the everyday.
The sequence has a distinctly cinematic quality: deep shadows, tight framing, and layered imagery create visual breadcrumbs that lead far beyond their initial context. Editorial work sits seamlessly alongside intimate, fleeting observations, each infused with a quiet sense of mystery.
Motifs of the hand and the eye surface throughout the book—a clenched fist, a touch across a face, a billboard gaze, a reflection in glass. These recurring forms embody Davison’s ongoing exploration of seeing and feeling, the threshold where perception meets imagination.
Photographs is at once a survey and a meditation: a complex, soulful body of portraits, landscapes, and still lifes, woven into a sequence that reflects Davison’s enigmatic way of looking at the world.
