Sat in a coffee shop in Hulme famous photographer Richard Davis shares the story behind his Hulme photography collection book which documents the inner-city area from the 1980s to the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Richard Davis is a British born in Birmingham photographer and social documentary based in the North. He is known for his famous Hulme photographs. Richard explains this year is his 40th<\/sup> anniversary of picking up a camera, \u201cIt\u2019s really dominated my life and I just fell in love with it\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Richard has always been interested in the arts, music, and cinema. He wanted to be a painter but unfortunately for him he was not good at painting or drawing. He then gravitated towards which he thought was the next best thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Richard shares in the 80s a choice had to be made between black and white or colour, and he was living in a black and white world. His favourite black and white films are Wim Wenders Wings of Desire and Down by Law Jim Jarmusch. He says: \u201cThey were both cinematic in terms of wide angled, vast expansive compositions. I drifted into photography to replicate that cinematic feel in my photography\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Richard moved to Manchester when his was 22 into Manchester Polytechnic\u2019s (now Manchester Met) Cavendish Halls overlooking Hulme. He explains he was warned by the university not to go into Hulme which is ironic because now most of the university\u2019s student accommodation is in Hulme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Richard moved because of \u2018Madchester\u2019 music scene. One band that convinced him to move was Joy Division, an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. Joy Division links to Hulme, he says: \u201cThere is a photograph that really got me going with photography. It\u2019s Joy Division on a snowy Hulme Bridge. It\u2019s a desolate landscape taken by Kevin Cummins<\/a> in 1989\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRichard’s Fascination with Hulme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n