{"product_id":"13-15-november-portraits-london-by-jack-davison","title":"13-15 November Portraits: London by Jack Davison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(249, 31, 31);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1rst Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eWhat does a face give away when it stops performing?\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePortrait photography sits at the core of Jack Davison's practice — the subject he returns to most instinctively. Portraits: London, 13–15 November began as a personal reckoning with its absence: a challenge to photograph eighty-seven Londoners in under seventy-two hours, roughly thirty-six people a day, each sitting lasting around ten minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work was made on a small Sony zoom camera, held at chest height. A large camera turns the photographer into a robot, Davison notes; a small one keeps the face visible, the exchange human. To move people out of self-consciousness he had them count aloud, look toward others in the room, run through gentle stretching — ways of catching the face mid-thought, between intentions. Most look away from the lens. When they don't, there is a reason for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking with stylist Philip Smith, Davison built a quiet visual language across the sitters: hoods that reduce the face to a circle of skin, collars, jackets worn backwards. The references are deliberately unmoored — medieval, ecclesiastical, a school uniform, a sect. Nothing fixes a decade. The prints are small, polymer etchings inked by hand, with a depth of black Davison says he cannot find any other way. He wanted people to have to lean in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe portraits carry no captions, no context. Davison says he would rather people brought their own stories to them — that what he feels standing behind the camera matters less than what a stranger might see standing in front of the print. Some will find melancholy, some beauty, some something they cannot name. He is not trying to resolve that. The open question is the point.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ScdvLsZWekQ?si=KEzQlbqrh1fOJ7P1\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tipi bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53761442054485,"sku":"JAC-QAJ","price":87.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/5016\/0524\/files\/13-15-november-portraits-london-by-jack-davison-9168654.jpg?v=1777062747","url":"https:\/\/www.tipi-bookshop.be\/products\/13-15-november-portraits-london-by-jack-davison","provider":"Tipi bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}