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Strange True Tales: Photographs by Joeff Davis
Composition Gallery, in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography 9, is proud to present "Strange True Tales: Photographs by Joeff Davis". An opening reception for the artist will be held on Saturday October 13th, from 7 to 10 p.m. The show will continue through Sunday November 25th.
Joeff Davis is a Chicago native, and studied photography at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts under the direction of renowned social documentary photographer Jerome Liebling. He went on to teach photography himself at the College of DuPage, The Hyde Park Art Center, and Kenwood Academy, and is the founder of the Positive Development Photography Program, a free photography program for low-income youth in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Joeff's photographs have been published in a variety of local and national publications including Rolling Stone, Spin, the Village Voice, Atlantic Monthly, and the Chicago Tribune. His work has also been featured on The Late Show with David Letterman, NBC News, and PBS' Artbeat, and published in several books including Stonehenge Earth and Sky, Real City Chicago, and I Mean It From the Heart: Stories and Portraits in Chicago Blues. His photography has been in over a dozen exhibitions, including a show at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and a solo exhibit at Hampshire College. A portfolio of his work was included in the Midwest Photographers Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Joeff is currently the Staff Photographer at Creative Loafing Newspaper, and this marks his first solo exhibition in Atlanta. www.joeff.com
The photographs in this collection are drawn from the last fifteen years of Joeff's work, and capture his unique vision, combining the "decisive moment" qualities of photojournalism with the more conceptual nature of fine art photography, and using social consciousness and satire in the service on this higher aim. "I love the photographic medium for its ability to capture a single moment to be examined outside its context. This characteristic of the medium allows me to utilize it as a tool to expose myths, create odd juxtapositions, and to reflect my personal vision of the world."-Joeff Davis
Joeff's creative and compelling work helps to bolster the long tradition of artful photojournalism and substantive social street photography that so many of us admire. It is important for galleries and collectors to support this type of narrative photography, to free it from the contrivances inherent in the press, and allow the time and space necessary for a more thoughtful viewing of the photographer's work.-Ron Hughes, Composition Gallery
"Davis' photographs are...somewhere between the comic and the controversial."-Kendra Greene, Museum of Contemporary Photography
"Joeff's images veer refreshingly from predictable photojournalism into a darker, sparkier, and grimly humorous region of expression."-Robert Tobey, Valley Advocate. Northampton, Mass.
"Joeff Davis' photographic vision of human nature is none too rosy"-Margaret Hawkins, Chicago Sun-Times
Joeff Davis is a Chicago native, and studied photography at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts under the direction of renowned social documentary photographer Jerome Liebling. He went on to teach photography himself at the College of DuPage, The Hyde Park Art Center, and Kenwood Academy, and is the founder of the Positive Development Photography Program, a free photography program for low-income youth in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Joeff's photographs have been published in a variety of local and national publications including Rolling Stone, Spin, the Village Voice, Atlantic Monthly, and the Chicago Tribune. His work has also been featured on The Late Show with David Letterman, NBC News, and PBS' Artbeat, and published in several books including Stonehenge Earth and Sky, Real City Chicago, and I Mean It From the Heart: Stories and Portraits in Chicago Blues. His photography has been in over a dozen exhibitions, including a show at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and a solo exhibit at Hampshire College. A portfolio of his work was included in the Midwest Photographers Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Joeff is currently the Staff Photographer at Creative Loafing Newspaper, and this marks his first solo exhibition in Atlanta. www.joeff.com
The photographs in this collection are drawn from the last fifteen years of Joeff's work, and capture his unique vision, combining the "decisive moment" qualities of photojournalism with the more conceptual nature of fine art photography, and using social consciousness and satire in the service on this higher aim. "I love the photographic medium for its ability to capture a single moment to be examined outside its context. This characteristic of the medium allows me to utilize it as a tool to expose myths, create odd juxtapositions, and to reflect my personal vision of the world."-Joeff Davis
Joeff's creative and compelling work helps to bolster the long tradition of artful photojournalism and substantive social street photography that so many of us admire. It is important for galleries and collectors to support this type of narrative photography, to free it from the contrivances inherent in the press, and allow the time and space necessary for a more thoughtful viewing of the photographer's work.-Ron Hughes, Composition Gallery
"Davis' photographs are...somewhere between the comic and the controversial."-Kendra Greene, Museum of Contemporary Photography
"Joeff's images veer refreshingly from predictable photojournalism into a darker, sparkier, and grimly humorous region of expression."-Robert Tobey, Valley Advocate. Northampton, Mass.
"Joeff Davis' photographic vision of human nature is none too rosy"-Margaret Hawkins, Chicago Sun-Times