Photographs: Lottie Davis’ “Quinn” is a photographic meditation on loss, set in post

• Since 2014, British photographer, artist, and author, Lottie Davies has labored extensively on the collection Quinn – an intricately researched and documented large-scale multimedia challenge that extends far past the gallery partitions. Quinn recounts the eponymous fictional story of a younger man, William Henry Quinn, who, in post-Second World Conflict Britain, walks from the south-west of England to the far north of Scotland, in what turns into an epic and symbolic journey. It is a meditation on grief, loss, loneliness, the human seek for which means, and the potential of redemption by means of time and panorama, pertinent throughout the ages.

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Untitled from the collection “Quinn.” Whereas fictional, Davies has created Quinn in response to the true experiences of younger women and men post-trauma, each in the early twentieth century and now.(Courtesy Lottie Davies)

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Though Davies initiated work on Quinn in 2014, clear comparisons to the Covid-19 pandemic could be seen in Quinn’s personal mourning for his earlier life, demonstrating yet one more approach in which Davies’ collection transcends time and place.(Courtesy Lottie Davies)

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Untitled from the collection “Quinn.” Whereas viewing the monograph, the reader metaphorically and sensorially walks alongside Quinn, and in the event that they select, can hearken to a web based recording of Samuel J Weir narrating the diary whereas turning the pages.(Courtesy Lottie Davies)

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Untitled from the collection “Quinn.” As Quinn travels on his odyssey it is revealed to be each a bodily and metaphorical journey mediated by the British panorama, a geography that is each modified and unchanged for the reason that Forties.(Courtesy Lottie Davies)

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Untitled from the collection “Quinn.” The traditional byways alongside which Quinn has travelled stay as they had been then, and but with the immutability of change and the unremitting nature of time passing, lives and reminiscences change and fade.(Courtesy Lottie Davies)

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Untitled from the collection “Quinn.” The challenge includes large-format images, transferring picture items, ephemera and textual content vignettes, taking the viewer by means of a multi-dimensional expertise.(Courtesy Lottie Davies)

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Untitled from the collection “Quinn.” The rigorously conceived manufacturing of Quinn’s diary, printed on opaque tremendous paper, is straight impressed by the small annotated diary Davies’ grandfather wrote whereas deployed in Normandy throughout WWII.(Courtesy Lottie Davies)

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