Biography
In 1990 Corey Davis began taking photographs while studying abroad in India, Nepal and Tibet with the School for International Training and since then has returned to this region twice. While there in 1994, he took photos for the Nepalese publication Himal magazine. After receiving his B.A. in photography and geography from Clark University, he worked for the Congressional Human Rights Foundation and the international Campaign for Tibet in Washington, DC. He has assisted artists such as, Abelardo Morrell when he was the Artist in Residence at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the artist Sol LeWitt at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
Since receiving his M.F.A. from Mass Art in 1999, Corey has taught photography at many local institutions and exhibited his work at Somerville's Vernon Street Studios, the St. Botolph Club, and Huntington Gallery. He has a solo show planned at The NewSpace Center for Photography, in Portland, Oregon in January of 2010
Corey’s work examines the variations of both traditional and non-traditional landscapes. In 2006 he was awarded an artist grant and traveled to Banda Aceh, Sumatra to photograph the aftermath of the devastating tsunami. More recently, he has created a series of non-traditional landscapes incorporating images formed in the base of Japanese tea cups. He employs multiple film and digital formats, but primarily uses 8x10 and 4x5 large format view cameras. Currently he is scanning his large format images and also uses the large format Sinar 22 Megapixel Camera.
