Jack Dobiecki-Davies

Hello, it's been a while. I think at a certain point I stopped uploading my work in the face of a very image-saturated age, feeling as though there was no real place for my work in the wider landscape of social media. I had forgotten the sense of focus and quietness that still photography can bring, both as a practitioner and as a consumer of photographic work. Some of the first images I fell in love with were black and white, and concerned with the built environment, and in that vein I'm trying to return to myself creatively. Here is a small foray into that act of returning.

I had also forgotten that in the creation of any piece of work, the vital final step is to let it out into the world and allow it to be seen/heard/experienced. As I stopped putting my work out there, and my hard drives filled up with endless dead-end projects that would never see the light of day, I gradually lost the drive to make more, and felt myself shying away from what seemed like fruitless acts of creation. Coming back to this mindset of creating and sharing work feels familiar, cathartic, and freeing, like walking down the streets of ones childhood.

Taken in Manchester, 2025