26 Jack Davison turns this year, but his image is already the mainstay of some of the biggest fashion magazines companies, including the New York Times reprinted recently. His love for the spontaneous portrait, on the street, turn the boy from Essex in a great fashion photographer.
Walking the road with Jack Davison down may take some time. A man was on the phone talking adjusted, a pretty young girl a bored construction worker sitting in a hurry next to the road, an old bald soaking a pint of care; Davison approaches each without hesitation a moment. After he imagined and for a few seconds in the chat that revolves around them, or consider or kneeling with his camera, often inches from his face. He still talks about it all the time, fire the design and quickly a few shots. He is relaxed, composed at the time and after a short grace and left, walking along the road, just check her new portrait.
Davison presented the BJP office on a racing bike that had seen better days, sweating in the sun, a loose white shirt, jeans - shorts and wearing a helmet. It did not look like a fashion photographer rapidly growing. Like any 25, he is still working on things to get your head around the complexity of making a career in photography. "I do not know how to use this thing, really," he said, his camera shows. "I just press buttons at random."
But if it is self-deprecating to a fault, made Davison, quickly. It has been commissioned by magazines such as the New York Times Magazine, and another garage, among many others in order, and has more than 10,000 followers on Instagram and Flickr. When I buy a round of drinks, she started her camera briefly played just taken a picture and then published his social media. Later that day, his portrait of the smiling man in high vis jacket has hundreds of likes and dozens of comments.
Some photographers may be tempted to build their images; Davison, online sharing is quite natural, because that's where he learned his craft. He grew up in Essex, a marine biologist are hoping, but he began to take photos when he was 15 years with the IXUS Canon family, and interested enough to D50 to buy a "doubtful" Nikon on eBay.
It was really Flickr error, allowing you to share your work to get what he calls his photographic training. He studied never formally photography or art, but chose English literature at the University of Warwick to read; one of the first images of its portfolio in a dormitory fantastic brutalism of Warwick was taken, and shows a naked girl near a window, pulled the curtains, light scattering of trees.
"I think it helps, I'm never as" learned "in the formal sense," he said. "He never told me how to do things, and, never specified limits, so I've never had a problem with the experiment."
After college Davison had to take a six-month tour in the US, but the time, decided to create "a work that encapsulates my philosophy as a photographer."
"We have 10,000 miles on the road," he said. "I then walk climb the streets looking for people to talk and to photograph. I am dependent spontaneous moments with my songs."
The resulting series, 26 states, was in Seres BJP published topic in January 2014 to see .. It is a heady mix of portraits, mostly in black and white, of crass women lit, very prominent friendly elderly, small children try hard for the guys in the residential street are actually looking for. "I am a documentary photographer sees," he said. "But I'm more interested in the beauty and strangeness of a moment that I'm with requests, or trying to make an argument."
Davison "values of spontaneity, the unexpected moment" especially, but also happy with his picture to play before or after the event. He was "obsessed [Salvador] Dali as a child" and is "now much about Man Ray, Lisette Model, Alfred Stieglitz thinks."
It could be a portrait take in the shade, in a reflection or intentionally blurred lens or might scratch the negative or tear the image once printed. In one picture, a woman, a piece of glass in his hand, an angle looking through his reflection; The face of another model is wrapped in a blue light, half his face is lost in the confusion.
"I am always experimenting shots," says Davison. "I try to keep things always fun, so rancid things. There is a certain joy some Plexiglas discarded in the street, pick it up and threw him to see through it."
Another photo shows a woman who. Through the smoke Davison has worked in the smoke until it seemed brushstrokes, all spots and swirling spirals. "There are a lot of very simple, is done directly from the camera-work now," he said. "A lot of it is excellent, but there is an excess of it.
"I think it is to the extent that people are not pushing -.. You have become too precious about the image to cut compliance rules'm no fear or edit or play with the image"
He speaks passionately about John Deakin, British photographers of the postwar era, who grew up in relative poverty within the boundaries of Liverpool and spent most of his life living in Berwick Street, Soho, spend too much time to drink the colony in the room , Deakin photographed the other artists and writers hanging there - Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and Francis Bacon, Dylan Thomas, Daniel Farson and Jeffrey Bernard - but it was always a little ashamed of his environment. "He does not like photography and sought a painter," says Davison. "However, he has this brilliant portraits are, calmly hit his study, covered with layers of dust.
"The prints are so special because they do not really seem to give a damn about it," says Davison. "You lack all chipped and broken corners. But given even more presence, that is, discarded moments, forgotten photos and rot."
Davison was able to love this definition, who are traveling to shoot, its ability to improve the image without losing its spontaneity, its committees; garage for his work allowed him to for Deakin show his love, through portraits, which he tore in two, and correspondence with other media - images. "Everything would be unsure of myself, cause what you expect in the lens to see," he said.
He stopped abruptly and looking at a middle-aged guy looking for a cigarette and a glass of care on the other side of the window to smoke. Take the camera, he goes outside and took the portrait of the man. What you see there, I wonder, when he comes inside. "It was the way the light caught them, I suppose," Davison said. "Looking into his eyes, the fine points of the face."
It is that an attractive girl be accessed on the tube and photograph of the platform at Bank station. Never nervous about something like to do that, I wonder. "So I did, but to develop the self-confidence," he said. "Sometimes it is rejected or someone frightened. But I realize that many people want to take a picture now. Facebook has for portrait photographers like me very well because suddenly everyone wants a photo.
"When I meet someone, I start working, how they present," he said. "I can not. Help I do it without thinking. And as someone reacts in front of the lens, is the pressure to do things right in the time you have with them. I am to find always exciting. I for life."
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