Publications

Cross Currents – John Davies

John Davies is one of Britain’s most respected landscape photographers, who has worked extensively on mainland Europe. Cross Currents brings together a series of his most powerful rural and industrial landscapes from each of the countries that formed the European Union in 1992. Cross Currents paints a picture of a Europe at the crossroads of urban and rural regeneration. Each of the locations, map out a specific terrain of a particular place at a particular time; yet they share many aesthetic parallels, in urban infrastructural planning, in building construction and architectural elegance, in rural preservation and land reclamation. John Davies’ dramatic and highly crafted pictures bear testimony to a technological quest for progress, yet offer glimpses of the power of the natural environment to assimilate and integrate the residue of industrial expansion. A powerful essay by photographer, writer and critic, Ian Walker firmly places Davies’ work within a contemporary European photographic context

In association with Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester.