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Pete Davis

The large format photography of Welsh photographer Pete Davis can be seen in many important national and international art collections.

Pete is senior lecturer in photography at the University of Wales Newport, and a member of the Centre for Photographic Research. He is also renowned for the fine printing of his images, and for his teaching of large format photography and fine printing from the 'View Camera Workshops' he runs from his studio in West Wales.

His work has featured in numerous one person and group exhibitions in the U.K. Europe and the USA, and a selection of images from these various bodies of work can be viewed on this site.

The site also features work from his numerous exhibitions and publications, details about his portfolio of platinum prints, and a page of 'current projects' including images from his latest completed bodies of work, and new colour images.

Pete has been taking photographs since the age of 11. After ten years as an advertising and fashion photographer, Pete moved to rural West Wales from where he has embarked on field trips around the British Isles, Europe and the USA with his large format camera.

Pete was the winner of the 2002 Wakelin Purchase Award for Welsh artists and work from the new 'Wildwood' series has been acquired by the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. In April 2002 Pete was a visiting lecturer at the Karel De Grote-Hogeschool, Antwerp, Belgium, was invited to present a paper at the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History in New York, and his work was exhibited at the Festival Interceltique in Lorient, Brittany. In 2003/4 Pete exhibited at Gallery International, Baltimore, Maryland. In October 2004 Pete had a one-person exhibition at the Feick Arts Center, Poultney, Vermont, USA, and was the artist in residence at Green Mountain College, Vermont. In April 2005 Pete was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Hague, Netherlands. In 2008 Pete presented a paper at the University of Toronto, and in 2009 gave a public lecture at the FotoMuseum, Antwerp and conducted masterclasses at the Polytechnic, Porto, Portugal and as part of the Ulster Arts Festivak, Belfast

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