“I wanted to approach making portraits in an ambitious, slightly wild way,” says Jack Davison of his new series Portraits: 14-16 November 2024, which is on show at the Paris Photo fair.
Over three days last November, Davison – who has photographed stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett for the New York Times and elsewhere – took pictures of 88 people across London, using street-casting to find his subjects.
These simple, stark portraits were then printed using the photopolymer gravure process, which imbues the work with a skewed, haunted atmosphere redolent of the past. “Some people see ecclesiastical figures” in the portraits,” says Davison. “For me, they feel more like knights; there is something medieval in their humble pageantry.”
Newsletters
Choose the newsletters you want to receive
View more
For information about how The Observer protects your data, read our Privacy Policy
Related articles:
