John Davies

Landscape photographer 
John Davies


John Davies is a well known landscape photographer originally from Sedgefield, County durham. Ive chosen to research into some of his work because i feel the subject matter he captures is similar to what i seem to be drawn to when capturing images, just captured in a very different style. All of my images for this project have been captured in the north east of England and all seem to have a lot of bright colour in them, this is not something i necessarily aimed to do, its something which i have just found as a repeated theme throughout my work. The concept of bright colour is very different to the work of John Davies, as you can see he works in black and white. John Davies images are also all landscape images as this is what he specialises in. Again this is very different to my work but what i like about johns work is that he captures images that aren't what we'd probably class as picturesque landscapes. 
A lot of the north east places John Davies photographs are run down places such as allotments or old colliery houses. 


His work seems to follow this theme of photographing what the typical photographer wouldn't be expected to photograph. Making the viewer spend longer looking at places, scenes or objects that in day to day life they wouldn't think twice about seeing. Well, at least this is what i am trying to do with my own photography. Capturing the areas in the north east we don't think of as pleasant to look at, run down streets, shops, back alleys, rubbish.