Paula Davies

As a photographer based in the Southwest of England, my work explores the intricate balance between conservation and the traditions of agricultural life. Fascinated by this complex relationship, my interest centres on how these tensions play out and how photography can act as a communicator of the many different ideas within the rural narrative. Using a range of digital techniques to amplify and reframe the landscape, my images challenge the viewer to reconsider the boundaries between nature and human activity. I use the camera to question the concept of ‘natural’ spaces and to investigate our physical and emotional relationship with the land. Through this approach, I create narratives that reflect both my conceptual practice and awareness of environmental matters.

 

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Paula Davies is a photographic artist whose career spans news photography and contemporary landscape practice. She began her professional journey at the North Devon Journal before moving to New York, where she managed the New York News Service, a media research agency supplying images and text to a wide range of American and European magazines, newspapers, and television. During this time, she also freelanced for major UK titles including The Mail on Sunday, The Sun & The News of the World. Returning to the UK, Paula worked as deputy picture editor for the Southwest photo agency 'Apex'.  After a break to raise her children and a subsequent move to Spain, she returned to North Devon and is working towards a BA (Hons) in Photography with the University for the Creative Arts.