About Keesha Davis

One of the hardest things to do is write about yourself.  You don’t want to sound like a pompous ass and you don’t want the text to bore anyone to death.  But…I guess I should tell you something about myself. I got my first camera, a Minolta as a gift from a family at around the age of seven.  Got my first chance to use an SLR in high school as a yearbook photographer and was also able to learn how to develop black and white film in a darkroom at that time.  In high school, I ended up working in a color lab and learned the ins and outs of C-41 processing.  In college, I bought a used Pentax SLR and various lenses (as well as thieved a few from my parents who had the same camera).  Now I shoot with a Canon prime lenses because they are fast, crisp and allow for a very shallow depth of field.  To me, playing with depth of field and the amount of light coming into my camera is where the art is, especially in nature photography.  Of course, and I think this will be obvious as you look through my photos, my macro lens is my true love and the single lens I would keep if told I could only keep one.

I love art.   Always have.  Having a Dad who is an abstract artist trained me to look at the world in little sections that are moving in their design.   I see the world in a series of 2:3 aspect ratios.  A series of frames, marked by light, shadow, color, texture, beauty, possibly even ugly, shocking and horrid. Maybe that’s what makes me a photographer.  I really don’t know beyond that everyone always talks about me having “the eye.”  I just know that everyone and nearly everything has something about it that should be noted.  Even the mundane looks exotic in another context; in another time or another place.  Everything and everyone matters to someone.    Nearly everything that you see that moves you deep down can be a photo.  And lots of things should move you.  If hundreds of things don’t move you, even slightly–every single day, then you are not looking and in my opinion, barely living.  And if you realize that you aren’t really living, then do something different.  Move.  Move to Seattle, move to Colorado, move to Belize, move down the block.  It doesn’t really matter.  Just move.

-Keesha Davis, photographer

Keesha Davis resides in Seattle and is a Ph.D. student in Education at the University of Washington.

All images on this website are copyright Keesha Davis, 2010.  All Rights Reserved.

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