Let me start by saying Lottie Davies is the most genuine, down to earth and funny, person you could ever meet. Lottie Davies worked for the telegraph newspaper and quickly found a name for herself in food photography, she took photographs for the telegraphs food column for 7 years before she decided she didn't want to be known as a food photographer anymore.
So Davies started working for survival international, (who couldn't pay her because they had no money) she paid for her own flights and everything so that she could go take journalistic photographs in Botswana, this was the start of her building up her portfolio in journalistic photography. Lottie Davies started to work with other charities because she wanted to make a difference, she wanted to use her work to inform people back home of what was going on in other countries.
Once she had built up enough of a portfolio she got a job working for a travel magazine where she was sent to Africa to take images of the cotton harvest, which she had trouble with because that had happened a week earlier, (No One Had Cotton).
From there on out Lottie Davies became more and more established winning the Taylor Wessing award for her work 'nightmares and memories'
Davies works with companies such as Fortnum and Mason to create a very unique shot that you would forever associate with her name ( she even included a pink unicorn called Mr. Happy!)
She is one of my favourite Guest Lectures we've had because she was enthusiastic about her work and had my so engrossed in what she was saying I forgot to write a lot of notes!
Thank You For Reading,
Becca x
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