education
1974
Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham
selected solo exhibitions
2016
Visions of La Mancha, Museo de Santa Cruz, Toledo, Spain
2014
Turning Green to Brown, Portraits of people in Sefton Park Meadows, on show at 3 venues across Liverpool.
Urban Dreams & City State, Side Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Hidden River, at the Night of Photography, La Chaux-de-fonds, Switzerland
2013
Paysage Document IV, Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Paris
Hidden River, Hotel Fontfreyde-Centre Photograprique, Clermont-Ferrand, France
France - England, Les Rencontres Arles Photographie, Arles, France
Highways, Museum of London, London
2012/2013
Paysage Document, touring exhibition, France
Signs of War, Look11 Festival, Milkandsugar Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2010
L'Anse de Paulilles, France & Fuji City, Japan, Gallerie Vu, Paris, France
Transition, Beam, Wakefield, UK
2009
City Sate, The Lit & Phil / Mining Institute, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
House, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK
2008
Krajobrazy Miejskie / Urban Landscapes, Galeria Fotografii pf, Poznan, Poland
2006
The British Landscape, Photo España, Madrid, Spain
2005
Signs of Coal, Side Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
What Everyone Wants, Lord St window installation for Liverpool Independant Biennial
2004
Urban Dreams, (8 cities from Metropoli) Ffotogallery at Turner House, Penarth, Wales, UK
2003
Metropolis: Manchester, at both Manchester Art Gallery & Urbis, Manchester, UK
2002
Metropoli, (London), Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, UK
Seine Valley, Gallery Photo, Rouen, France
2001
Metropoli (part 1), Ffotogallery, Cardiff, UK
2000
Sept Photographies, Centre Culturel de Saint Benoit, France
1999
Sguardi Gardesani, Museo Civico Riva del Garda, Italy
1997
Through fire & water: the River Taff, Oriel, Cardiff and National Museum of Wales
1996
The River and the City - München, Barbara Gross Gallerie, Munich, Germany
A Year and a Day, Visitor Centre, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff
The River and the City - Florence, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, UK
1994
Fos-Sur-Mer and the Industrial zone, Fos-sur-Mer, France
1993
Rhondda Valleys, Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris, France
1992
Vigovisions, IV Foto bienal, Vigo, Spain
Cross Currents, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, UK
1991
Phase 11, The Photographers' Gallery, UK
1989
Autoroute A26, Mission Photographique Transmanche, Douchy, France
1988
Taking Stock, Stockport Art Gallery, UK: Landscapes of Stockport
1987
Skylines, Viewpoint, Salford, UK: Rural landscapes 1976 to 1984
A Green & Pleasant Land, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
1985
On the edge of White Peak, Buxton Museum, UK: Derbyshire quarries
1984
The Valleys Project, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, UK: Rhymney Valley
1983
Durham Coalfield, Side Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1982
Above and Beyond, Untitled Gallery, Sheffield, UK
1981
Landscapes, Side Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
1977
John Davies - Photographs, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
selected group exhibitions
2022
COAL + ICE, John F. Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts, Washington DC
2021
The Sheffield Project: Photographs of a Changing City, Weston Park Museum, Sheffield
PHotoEspaña 2021- In Spain: Photography, Commissions, Territories 1983-2009, Museo ICO, Spain
2019
Can’t See the Woods for Trees, with Tabatha Jussa, LOOK Photo Biennial, Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool
Paisajes framed: European Photographic Missions, 1984-2019, Museo ICO, Madrid
2018
Saving Calderstones – Trees Under Threat, OUTPUT Gallery, Liverpool
About the North – Imagined Dialogues, Side Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Idea of North, BALTIC, Gateshead
2017-2018
A Green and Pleasant Land - British landscape & the imagination: 1970's to now, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
The British Landscape, L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, NYC
2017
The Peaceful Dome, Bluecoat, Liverpool
Into the Woods: Trees in Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2015
Ieri Oggi Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Milan
For Ever Amber, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Out of the Archive (Curator), Kirkby Gallery, Knowsley, Merseyside
Modern History Volume II, The Atkinson, Southport, Merseyside
Landscape with Machines, Ironbridge Gallery, Telford, Cheshire
Italia Out, Palazzo della Ragione Photography, Milan
Shadow, Labanque, Bethune, France
2014
All that is solid melts into air, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick
2013
Landmarks: The Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London
2011
Democratic Promenade, (Our Ground project) Bluecoat Art Centre, Liverpool, UK
2010
Facts of Life, British Documentary Photography 1974-1997, National Museum in Krakow
2009
Next Up - Liverpool Art Now, Bluecoat Art Centre, Liverpool, UK
European Eyes on Japan (Fuji City), CUC, Novas, Liverpool, UK
2008
Cities on the Edge, CUC, Novas, Liverpool, UK
Deutsche BPhotography Prize 2008, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
2007
How We Are - Photographing Britain, Tate Britain, London, UK
2006
Monuments & Paysages, Arles, France
Making History, Tate Liverpool, UK
2005
Coalfield Stories, Photofusion, London, UK
Trans Emillia, Fotomuseum, Winterhur, Switzerland
Land of Promise, Noorderlicht, Groningen, The Netherlands
Dedans - Dehors, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France
2004
Shrinking Cities, KW - institute for contemporary art, Berlin, Germany
2002
The St James Group Photography Prize, Flowers East, London, UK
2001
Questions of Landscape, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Art & Time, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
2000
Luoghi come Paesaggio, Uffizi Museum Gallery, Florence, Italy
Identificazione di un Paesaggio, Marghera, Italy
Just Another Day, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Milano Senzaconfini, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
Le Temps Vite, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1999
Under Construction, Milwaukee Art Museum, USA
Hoeksche Waard, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Archaeology of the Urban Landscape, Gallery of Anthropology, Coimbra, Portugal
1998
Archaeology of the Urban Landscape, Gallery of Anthropology, Coimbra, Portugal
1997
San Gottardo, Galeria Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland
1996
Sul Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
1995
Elsewhere, Gallerie du Jour, Paris, France
Power to Change, RIBA Architecture Centre, London, UK
1994
L'Observatoire Photographique du paysage, Cite des Sciences, Paris, France
1993
Documentary Dilemmas, British Council touring outside UK
Iron River, Bilbao Metropolitan Museum, Spain: Urban centres of Bilbao
A City in Photographs, Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp, Belgium
1992
Roten Blitz, Haus der Architektur, Graz, Austria: Hydro-Electric schemes
1991
British Photography from the Thatcher years, MoMA, New York, USA
1990
Barcelona, Association of Catalan Architects, Spain
1986
The Art of Photography, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Urban Landscapes, Perspektive Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1984
Idee prozess ergebins, International Bauasstellung, Berlin, Germany
1983
For Druridge, Side Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Selected Collections
Arts Council of England
British Council: Athens, Leipzig & London
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Deutsche BArt Collection, Frankfurt
FNAC (Fonds National d Art Contemporian), Paris
Maison Europeenne de la photographie, Paris
Manchester City Art Gallery
Ministere de L' Environnement, Paris
Musee de la Photographie, Chalerio
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp
National Library of Wales
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford / National Media Museum
National Museum and Galleries of Wales
Ruhrlandmuseum, Essen
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Victoria & Albert Museum, London