PETE DAVIS

His documentary photography has been exhibited and published widely in the U.K., Europe and the USA, is represented in a number of important public collections including the Welsh Arts Council, National Library of Wales and the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 2017 he was given a major retrospective exhibition by The National Library of Wales which spanned six decades of his work. He has also represented Wales twice at the Festival  Interceltique in Brittany, France. He has received numerous artist and research grants from universities, Arts Councils and European funding and is a past winner of the Wakelin Award for Welsh Artists. He began teaching in the 1980’s and later became senior lecturer and course leader of the Documentary Photography course at the University of Wales, Newport.

USA. For several years he ran the ‘View Camera Workshops’ from his  studio with photographer and camera maker John Nesbitt. Residential workshops dealing with large format photography and fine B&W printing. He is currently a postgraduate tutor and Ph.D supervisor at Aberystwyth University School of Art.