Richard Davis Photography Collection
Date range: 1980s
Medium: Photography
Number of items: 40 prints.
Richard Davis (born 1965) is a British, social documentary and portrait photographer, based in the North West of England.
Davis was born in Birmingham and he moved to study photography at Manchester Polytechnic in 1988, now the Manchester Metropolitan University. Whilst living in Manchester, he began photographing life in the inner-city area of Hulme, fascinated by its huge brutalist inspired concrete Crescents, as well as documenting the many characters that inhabited the flats there, many of whom were squatters.
Despite the Crescents being partially derelict, the Hulme estate was conversely a hub of creativity and of artistic communities. This set of 40 prints selected by Davis reflect both the desolation and the inventive energy of the Crescent during the 80s. The Crescent blocks were demolished in the early 1990s.
The collection is of interest to researchers across many disciplines, including photography, architecture, geography, the history of art; and to those interested in visual culture, popular culture and sociology.
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