Pete Davis Photography

NEWS

The latest updates on Pete's projects and news of his activities

January 2025

Planning a new body of work photographing various craftspeople who are using traditional skills to make their work.

Watch this space for more news and images.

'Spike the Blacksmith'. Llanbrynmair, Powys.

December 2024

A new, revised and expanded edition of 'Silentium' . Perfect bound paperback, 80 pages both colour & b&w images of many plant forms from Pete's garden taken over several years and all seasons.

August 2024

Two new editions - 'Innocence of Eye. and 'The Expressive land'.

July - August 2024

Working on three books, revised and expanded soft back editions of 'Innocence of Eye', 'The Expressive Land' and 'Cader Idris'.

Innocence of Eye was published on August 15th.

April 2024

Gives a public talk at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

February 2024

The National Library of Wales acquires several prints from the 'Great Little Tin Sheds of Wales' series to add to its collection of Pete's work.

November 2023

A 'walk around' movie at the 'City Stories' exhibition at Aberystwyth University School of Art gallery.

Invitation for the 'City Stories' exhibition private view and talk at Aberystwyth University School of Art.

New clip on You Tube talking about the new 'Great Little Tin Sheds of Wales' - redux catalog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wambfkV72XQ

The 'Great Little Tin Sheds Wales' exhibition opened Oct. 6th.

Double page spread in the 'Cambrian News', 21/09/2023

Shuffling through a portfolio of platinum prints

September: A selection of new platinum prints

August:

Selenium toning and washing prints for the new 'Great Little Tin Sheds of Wales exhibition.

July: Selecting prints for a new 'Great Little Tin Sheds of Wales' exhibition and publication

Checking appropriate print size in the studio for new work. March 2023

February:

Planning a new body of work, just poring over maps and plotting locations.

January:

Just starting a first edit and selection from the 'Silentium' work for a possible exhibition featuring B&W gelatin / silver prints, Chromogenic colour prints and platinum prints.

2022

November:

Starting the printing of this year's Christmas card. Limited edition, selenium toned gelatin / silver prints.

October:

'City Stories' exhibition opens at the Senedd Futures Gallery, Pierhead, Cardiff Bay until December 8th.

Part of the 'City Stories' exhibition at the Senedd Futures Gallery, Pierhead, Cardiff Bay. (Photo: Lea Sautin, Senedd)

Unloading part of the 'City Stories' exhibition outside the Pierhead building, Cardiff Bay. The exhibition opens inside in the 'Futures Gallery', October 1st.

June:

Elin Jones MS, Presiding Officer at the Senedd has sponsored the 'City Stories' exhibition to be shown at the Senedd's 'Futures' Gallery. This is in the Pier Head building on Cardiff Bay and will be shown from October 1st. 2022 to December 9th.

May:

'City Stories' exhibition will open at the Found gallery, Brecon on the 26th. April and then be available for touring.

Pete & Brian Carroll of 'Ffoton' and 'Offline Journal' at the opening of Pete's exhibition at the Found Gallery, Brecon. Photo: Punch Maughan

Publishes a set of 10 postcards from the 'Great Little Tin Sheds of Wales' series

'Great Little Tin Sheds of Wales', set of 10 postcards

April:

Cafe Royal books will publish 'Photographs of Cardiff, 1969-1977' in April.

Centre page spread from the Cafe Royal book - see more here:

https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/wales/pete-davis-cardiff-19691977

2021

December:

Begins printing for the 'City Stories' exhibition which will open at the 'Found Gallery' Brecon in late April 2022. Further dates to be announced when the exhibition tours to other galleries. Cafe Royal books will be bringing out a book of this work at the same time.

May:

Pete has received sponsorship towards materials to produce the prints for the 'City Stories' exhibition planned for next year from Silverprint.: https://silverprint.co.uk/

'The Expressive Land' exhibition is set to open soon at Ffotogaleri y Gofeb, Machynlleth. www.ffotogaleriygofeb.co.uk

View a video of the installation below.

A section of 'The Extressive land' exhibition at Ffotogaleri y Gofeb

'Cynara'

April: The April edition of the magazine 'Offline Journal' www.offline.wales is publishing images and text relating to two of Pete's new publications, 'Silentium' and 'Cynara'.

February: 'Cynara', a new book of fifty images of globe artichoke plants from Pete's garden is completed and released.

2020

October: 'Silentium' exhibition opens at the Penrallt Gallery Bookshop, Machynlleth. A limited edition book of the work is also published containing over fifty images and each copy comes with an original print.

August: Work is in progress assembling another body of work around a theme for another book to be published later in the year. 'Cynara' focusses on a subject that has caught Pete's attention for a number of years and this is an opportunity to consolidate this and assemble it into book form.

In addition to the exhibition 'The Expressive Land' opening soon at Ffotogaleri y Gofeb, an accompanying show will open in the adjoining bookshop gallery of some of the work in 'Silentium'.

May: Pete has been using the lockdown period to review and edit a lot of past work and to make new, still life images to add to this aspect of his collection. This has resulted in three new books that will be published later in the year to coincide with the opening of his one-person exhibition at Ffotogaleri y Gofeb.

March: Pete has been engaged as a visiting tutor at Aberystwyth University School of Art, tutoring MA and Ph.D students.

Two one-person exhibitions are planned for 2020. 'City Stories' Photographs of Cardiff, 1969-1977, provisionally scheduled for later this year at a south Wales gallery and a show of B&W landscape work from Wales, Ireland, England and Sardinia at Ffotogaleri y Gofeb, Machynlleth, which was planned to open in May but now later in the year due to the pandemic and closing of galleries.

January: The National Library of Wales purchased a portfolio of prints from the 'City Stories' series for their permanent collection. The library already holds numerous prints from a number of Pete's bodies of work as part of their archive

2019:

July: Pete was interviewed for a BBC Radio 4 programme entitled 'Art of Now: Tin Roof Symphony'. It will be broadcast on August 20th. at 11.30 am. It will also be on the BBC iPlayer shortly afterwards.

May 1st. A podcast in-depth interview with Pete by Geoff Young of Ffotogallery y Gofeb can be heard here: https://www.ffoton.wales/interviews/2019/5/pete-davis

On Saturday March 30th. at Fotogaleri y Gofeb, an open question and discussion was held with the photographers represented by the gallery and in the current exhibition. Pete Davis, John Blakemore, Peter Cattrell, Aled Rhys Hughes and Marian Delyth. They took part in a discussion chaired by gallery owners Geoff and Diane and answered questions from the audience.

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Pete will be giving a lecture on his life in photography and showing examples of his many bodies of work over a long career at the Ludlow Arts Society, Ludlow Assembly Rooms on Thursday March 7th.

2018:

Pete was at Ffotogallery y Gofeb in Machynlleth on Saturday December 8th. Between 10.45 and 12.45 to discuss his work with visitors who can 'drop-in' for coffee and a chat with him. The gallery is showing a wide selection of Pete's work until March in a group show with the photographers that the gallery represents. www.ffotogaleriygofeb.co.uk

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Another Billingham camera bag for Pete as he was lucky enough to win a 'Hadley' bag in the Leica Society's raffle this year. The big bag in the pictures at the top opposite is over 30 years old and still going strong.

Click here to read and see more: https://twitter.com/BillinghamBags/status/993880624061657088

Pete will be giving a talk at Oriel Colwyn on April 13th. at 7:00pm - details here: http://orielcolwyn.org/pete-davis-talk/

Pete's original archival fine prints are now available from Ffotogaleri y Gofeb www.ffotogaleriygofeb.co.uk

A selection of Pete's books are also available from http://www.penralltgallerybookshop.co.uk

A selection of Pete Davis’ body of work from the 1980’s - ‘Great Little Tin Sheds of Wales’ - is being shown in a joint exhibition at Oriel Colwyn - 12th March - 28th April 2018 - http://orielcolwyn.org/tin

2017:

Pete is producing a new set of photographs and making prints of these using the platinum / palladium process. Click here to see more

A major retrospective exhibition of Pete's work spanning six decades will open at the National Library of Wales on March 4th. It will be shown until mid June. A video made by the National Library of Wales available on 'YouTube': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az5I0w0RkA8

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September 2024

A new edition of the 'Cader Idris' book published. More images than the 1997 original plus all the photographs that were included in the limited edition platinum print portfolio plus the associated 'Haiku'.

The front and back cover of the new 'Cader Idris' book

March 2024

Four of Pete's prints from the 'Wildwood' series will be exhibited at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, as part of the Wakelin Award' 25th. anniversary exhibition. Pete was a winner in 2002.

January 2024

A talk by Pete on the history and practice of platinum printing at Lampeter Historical Society being held at the University of Wales, Trinty St. David, Lampeter on January 16th.