Jack Davison (b.1990) is a London based portrait and documentary photographer.
He studied English Literature at Warwick University but spent most of the time mucking around with cameras. Since the age of 15 he has continuously photographed those around him, much to the annoyance of family, friends and strangers.
Foam is pleased to present the first international exhibition of Jack Davison (1990, United Kingdom). The twenty-five-year-old studied English literature and is an autodidact photographer. His work shows a passion for the discipline’s history, and in it we can see Davison revisiting a diverse range of genres, styles, and techniques spanning from avant-garde experiment to objective documentary, and from 20th-century portraiture to conceptual study. Yet his practice is very contemporary as well, and visibly rooted in the borrowing practices of Internet communities such as Flickr, which laid the basis for today’s social media culture.
Born and raised in Essex, in rural England, Jack Davison subsequently moved to Conventry in the West Midlands, where he studied English literature at Warwick University. As a ph...