JONATHAN CHERRY: What gets you up in the morning? SOPHIE DAVIDSON: Generally the realization that I have pressed the snooze button on my phone about 7 times and the fact I don’t have curtains. JC: Are there any emerging photographers inspiring you at the moment? SD: So many! But mainly people I know, like my housemates Laura and Meesha who I spend the majority of my time with, as well as Maisie Cousins, Robert Felix and Ian Bird. Also Jamie Stoker, Max Piggott, Jody Rogac and Harley Weir, who I don’t know but I think are great. JC: What is your current project all about?  SD: All my work lately has been about boys so now I’ve decided to turn my eye to girls because I find them a lot harder to photograph and I don’t think I understand them quite as well. I’m interested in looking at how girls feel about being girls right now, especially as “artists” I suppose and whether or not it even really makes a difference just because I don’t know how I feel about it myself. I’m also working on personal projects, I’m interested in publishing and I’ve curated a zine which will be available really soon about my recent trip to New York with work from a few other people like Joe Skilton, Hannah Metz and Peter Lally. JC: What initially drew you to photography? SD: My Great Aunt Mary always used to give me free disposable cameras she got from somewhere, but my parents never really developed them so I keep finding them in drawers at home but I think they’d just be photos of horses anyway. I began to take photographs more seriously because my art teacher told me I couldn’t paint so I had to do it to pass the year. I learnt to develop film and print from a physics teacher who made sleazy jokes at photography club (which consisted of me and one other girl) every Monday after school but I really enjoyed it. They’ve closed the darkroom since I left and just turned it into a storage room, which is quite sad. JC: How is Falmouth these days? SD: Right now it is very cold. I’m shivering in my room and I can see my breath but that might just be student housing. My favourite thing in Falmouth right now is the new pizza place Belly Timber and vanilla vodka and coke at Hand Bar.  JC: Looking forward to graduation what are you most excited about once you have finished? SD: I’m really excited about being out there. I feel like I’m in a bit of a weird education bubble of right now, especially living in Falmouth which is such a strange, small community where everyone is nice and positive. I’m looking forward to trying my hardest and doing as much as I possibly can and going to as many places as I can afford to go to.  JC: Favourite tree? SD: Baobab

JONATHAN CHERRY: What gets you up in the morning?

SOPHIE DAVIDSON: Generally the realization that I have pressed the snooze button on my phone about 7 times and the fact I don’t have curtains.

JC: Are there any emerging photographers inspiring you at the moment?

SD: So many! But mainly people I know, like my housemates Laura and Meesha who I spend the majority of my time with, as well as Maisie Cousins, Robert Felix and Ian Bird. Also Jamie Stoker, Max Piggott, Jody Rogac and Harley Weir, who I don’t know but I think are great.

JC: What is your current project all about? 

SD: All my work lately has been about boys so now I’ve decided to turn my eye to girls because I find them a lot harder to photograph and I don’t think I understand them quite as well. I’m interested in looking at how girls feel about being girls right now, especially as “artists” I suppose and whether or not it even really makes a difference just because I don’t know how I feel about it myself. I’m also working on personal projects, I’m interested in publishing and I’ve curated a zine which will be available really soon about my recent trip to New York with work from a few other people like Joe Skilton, Hannah Metz and Peter Lally.

JC: What initially drew you to photography?

SD: My Great Aunt Mary always used to give me free disposable cameras she got from somewhere, but my parents never really developed them so I keep finding them in drawers at home but I think they’d just be photos of horses anyway. I began to take photographs more seriously because my art teacher told me I couldn’t paint so I had to do it to pass the year. I learnt to develop film and print from a physics teacher who made sleazy jokes at photography club (which consisted of me and one other girl) every Monday after school but I really enjoyed it. They’ve closed the darkroom since I left and just turned it into a storage room, which is quite sad.

JC: How is Falmouth these days?

SD: Right now it is very cold. I’m shivering in my room and I can see my breath but that might just be student housing. My favourite thing in Falmouth right now is the new pizza place Belly Timber and vanilla vodka and coke at Hand Bar. 

JC: Looking forward to graduation what are you most excited about once you have finished?

SD: I’m really excited about being out there. I feel like I’m in a bit of a weird education bubble of right now, especially living in Falmouth which is such a strange, small community where everyone is nice and positive. I’m looking forward to trying my hardest and doing as much as I possibly can and going to as many places as I can afford to go to. 

JC: Favourite tree?

SD: Baobab

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