Steve Davis: "Captured Youth"

February 8, 2007—March 10, 2007 | Reception Thursday, Feb. 8th, 6-8PM

James Harris Gallery is pleased to present Steve Davis’ epic series, Captured Youth. For the past 10 years, Davis’ work has investigated and oftentimes critiqued the way contemporary culture deals with people who reside at the margins, the so-called underbelly of our social classes. From people with mental and physical disabilities to incarcerated teens and senior citizens, Davis records the reality of lives we seldom see and tend to neglect.

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"10, 11, 12, 13 & 14" 2000
"Adam, Green Hill" 2000
"Jared, Green Hill" 2000
"Earnest, Oakridge" 2005
"Robert, Oakridge" 2005
"Jake, Oakridge" 2005
"Jon, Maple Lane" 1997
"Myke, Maple Lane" 1997
"Cell, Remann Hall" 2002
"Mask, Remann Hall" 2002
"Cell 12, Green Hill" 2000
"Chris and Jacob, Maple Lane" 1997
"Stacey, Maple Lane" 1997
"Cell, Intensive Management Unit, Green Hills"2000

Steve Davis

Steve Davis is a photographer based in the Pacific Northwest who takes both landscape and portrait photographs. His images always reference a social idea or group of people, whether that is the social and physical landscape of Washington or contemporary hippie culture. Often his photographs depict those on the fringes of society, in order to raise awareness and bring images of forgotten groups of people and landscapes into art spaces.

Steve Davis is the Coordinator of Photography and Media Curator at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Davis was twice the recipient of the WA Arts Commission/Artist Trust Fellowship. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, and Russian Esquire. His photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Haggerty Museum of Art, George Eastman House, the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum and the Musée de la Photographie in Belgium.