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Lottie Davies is a multi-award-winning and BAFTA-nominated fine art, portrait, travel, editorial and commercial photographer based in London, UK.

Life and work
Davies was born in Guildford, U.K. She studied at St Andrews University in Scotland obtaining a degree in philosophy.

Davies’ unique style has been employed in a variety of contexts, including newspapers, glossy magazines, books and advertising. She has won recognition in numerous awards, including the Association of Photographers’ Awards, the International Color Awards, and the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Awards. Her work has garnered international acclaim with the image Quints, which won First Prize at the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Awards 2008 at the National Portrait Gallery in London, with Viola As Twins, which won the Photographic Art Award, Arte Laguna Prize in Venice in 2011, and her collaboration on Dreams of Your Life with Hide & Seek/Film 4.0 which was BAFTA-nominated in 2012.

Davies’ work is concerned with stories and personal histories, the tales and myths we use to structure our lives. She takes inspiration from classical and modern painting, cinema and theatre as well as the imaginary worlds of literature. She employs a deliberate reworking of our visual vocabulary, playing on our notions of nostalgia and visual conventions with the intention of evoking a sense of recognition and narrative. Sandy Nairne, former director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, described Davies’ work as “brilliantly imaginative”.

Publications

 * Memories and Nightmares, 2009
 * Tina, Peabody People series, 2001

Solo exhibitions

 * Quinn, FORMAT Festival, Derby UK March 2019
 * The Age of Love, DongGang International Photography Festival, South Korea, June-Sept 2018
 * FIX Photo Festival, London, UK, May 2016
 * Ex Caelo Lux: Lights in the Trees and other works, De Magistris Arte, Milan, Italy, 2013
 * Memories and Nightmares, L A Noble Gallery, London, 2013
 * Memories and Nightmares, Galeria Cero, Madrid, Spain, March-May 2012
 * Memories and Nightmares, La Chambre, Strasbourg, France, February - March 2012
 * Memories and Nightmares, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 2011
 * The Bushmen of the Kalahari 2005

Group exhibitions

 * HERE - LiShui International Photography Biennial, LiShui, China, November 2019
 * Notes on a Periphery, Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, UK October 2019
 * Sixteen, FORMAT Festival, Derby and touring UK, 2019 - 2020
 * 209 Women, Portcullis House, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London UK November 2018-February 2019
 * London Art Fair, UK, Cynthia Corbett Gallery 2015
 * Capturing the Narrative: A Visual Exploration of Fact and Fiction, L A Noble Gallery, London, July 2014
 * The Crisis Commission, London, April 2014
 * Scope NY Art Fair, US Cynthia Corbett Gallery, March 2014
 * London Art Fair, UK Cynthia Corbett Gallery, January 2014
 * Fragile: Photographing Nature, Beauty and Memories, Chris Beetles Gallery, London, 2013
 * Art Southampton, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Southampton, New York, US, 2013
 * London Art Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery/Young Masters Prize, 2013
 * Art Southampton, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Southampton, New York, US, 2013
 * The Photographers 2012, Chris Beetles Fine Photographs, London 2012
 * The Constructed View: UK Photography Now, 12th Dong Gang International Photo Festival, South Korea 2013
 * Unseen World, Association of Photographers Online, London 2013
 * Unseen, L A Noble Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2012
 * AIPAD, Eric Franck Fine Art, New York 2011
 * Renaissance Photography Prize, London 2011
 * Paris Photo, Eric Franck Fine Art, Paris 2010
 * Fotosintensi, Piacenza, Italy, April 2010
 * AIPAD, Eric Franck Fine Art, New York 2010
 * Paris Photo, Eric Franck Fine Art, Paris 2009
 * Prix de la Photographie, Paris: First Prize, Nudes, 2009
 * AIPAD, Eric Franck Fine Art, New York 2009
 * London Art Fair, Eric Franck Fine Art, 2009
 * Foto 8 Summer Show 2008
 * PDN Annual 2008
 * Association of Photographers Awards 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 (Best In Category)
 * NUJ Photography Exhibition 2007
 * International Color Awards 2006, 2007
 * Peabody People 2001

Collections

 * Fondation Camignac Gestion, Paris, France
 * Eric Franck Fine Art, London, UK
 * UK Parliament - Parliamentary Art Collection

Awards

 * Winner, Young Masters Prize, Corbett Projects, London 2012
 * Nominated, BAFTA 'Digital Creativity' with Hide & Seek and Film 4.0, 2012
 * Winner, Photographic Art, Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy 2011
 * Winner, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
 * Schweppes Photographic Portrait Award 2006