Pete Davies, Author at The Open College of the Arts

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Pete Davies

Freelance Musings

Posted: 19/12/12 02:16 | 9 Comments

I’ve recently been given some freelance work by a company asking me to take photographs of buildings, they cover a wide range from general retail outlets to student accommodation to industrial units to social and entertainment centres, you take around four images from different angles to capture the building as best you can and then […]

“That is quite impossible, that has never been done before!”

Posted: 23/11/12 11:11 | 0 Comments

“That is quite impossible, that has never been done before!” exclaims the opening line in Erich Salomon’s groundbreaking photo-essay book Famous Contemporaries In Unguarded Moments, first published in 1931. Erich Salomon was not radically conservative. On the contrary, he and many of his Jewish family members died in Auschwitz as victims of the Nazi dictatorship. […]

Ricky Adam

Posted: 05/10/12 08:32 | 8 Comments

A friend of mine introduced me to Ricky Adam’s first photo book “Destroying Everything…Seems Like The Only Option”, and I’m so glad he did because not only did the book sell out pretty quickly but it also re-awoke my interest in documentary photography. The book is a series of images that document a subculture from […]

Jon Rafman

Posted: 06/09/12 06:24 | 12 Comments

Jon Rafman I have only recently comes across 9-Eyes, an ongoing internet based photographic project started in 2008 by Montreal based photographer/artist Jon Rafman. He searches Google Street Views, selects certain images, usually with a strong narrative content, takes a screen shot and then adds it to his site. The original images were taken by […]