“I discover secret worlds that exist only through my camera lens and capture them like a fisherman. But the life forms I seek never die. They live and breathe in an eternal present as narratives that speak for themselves.”
Palmer Davis makes pictures that explore the mysterious and the magical in the everyday. His photographs evoke a sense of place and a moment in time. They tell stories and reveal metaphors. Whether the image is an expansive panorama or an intimate glimpse, it is always a personal interpretation —viewed through a prism of wonder, dream, memory myth or desire.
Palmer’s photographic eye was honed over a twenty five-year career as a Madison Avenue advertising creative director. His first photography class at age sixteen was a transformative experience that started him on a lifelong artistic journey. He studied photography at Hampshire College and the International Center of Photography, where he is now a member of the faculty. Widely exhibited and collected, Davis is a fine art photographer and teacher who is represented in New York City by ClampArt His photographs are included in the permanent collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art.
