2012
Karole Armitage, United States
Frank Benson, United States
Karl Haendel, United States
Ester Partegas, Spain
Amy Sillman, United States
Dirk Stewen, Germany

2011
Rob Fischer, United States
David Fenster, United States
Justin Almquist, United States
Nick Herman, United States
Bill Morrison, United States
Erin Shirreff, British Columbia

2010
Ellen Altfest, United States
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, France/Belgium
Marc Ganzglass, United States
Steve Roden, United States
Bill Saylor, United States
Melanie Schiff, United States

2009
Rita Ackermann, United States
Adam Davies, United States
Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser, Germany
Mischa Kuball, Germany
Sarah McEneaney, United States
Alex Schweder, United States

2008
Mark Flood, United States
Erik Göngrich, Germany
Monika Grzymala, Germany
Charline von Heyl, United States
Jason Tomme, United States
Jeff Zilm, United States

2007
Joanne Greenbaum, United States
Adam Helms, United States
Claudia Hinsch, Germany
Annette Kisling, Germany
Michael Krumenacker, United States
Paul Lee, United States
Daniel Sturgis, United Kingdom

2006
Oliver Croy, Austria
Mikael Levin, United States
Brian Kirk Nelms, United States
Jesus Palomino, Spain
Petra Trenkel, Germany
Christopher Wool, United States

2005
Mai Braun, Finland
Shane Huffman, United States
Maureen Gallace, United States
Isa Melsheimer, Germany
Wilhelm Sasnal, Poland

2004
Gail Peter Borden, United States
Christian Freudenberger, Germany
Matthew Day Jackson, United States
Corinna Schnitt, Germany
Monique van Genderen, United States
Heike Weber, Germany
Michael Yoder, United States

2003
Ariane Epars, Switzerland
Lies Kraal, The Netherlands
Thomas Müller, Germany
Avery Preesman, The Netherlands
Erwin Redl, Austria
Judi Werthein, Argentina

2002
Gudrun Flach, Germany
Jaroslaw Flicinski, Poland
Hlynur Hallsson, Iceland
Graciela Hasper, Argentina
Nestor Kruger, Canada
Albrecht Kunkel, Germany
Katherine Merz, United States

2001
Susan Chorpenning, United States
Julian Dashper, New Zealand
Howard Goldkrand, United States
Christina Hejtmanek, United States
Emi Winter, Mexico

2000
Margrét Haraldsdóttir Blöndal, Iceland
Andrea Claire, United States
Katharina Hinsberg, Austria
Michael Meredith, United States
Andreas Schmid, Germany

1999
Alexander Braun, Germany
Katharina Grosse, Germany
Ann-Michele Morales, United States
Makato Sasaki, Japan
Claudia Schmacke, Germany
Richard Wearn, New Zealand

1998
Degenhard Andrulat, Germany
Igor Antic, France
John Beech, United States
Jeff Elrod, United States
Kumiko Kurachi, Japan
Valérie Mréjen, France

1997
Bernhard Härtter, Germany
Leonard Kemp, United States
Ulrike Kessl, Germany
Kathranne Knight, United States
Polly Lanning Sparrow, United States
Jennifer Siegal, United States
Daniela Steinfeld Rau, Germany
Karien Vandekerkhove, Belgium

1996
Angela Ferreira, Portugal
Jutta Glöckner, Great Britain
Mary Ellen Latas, United States
Sigrun Paulsen, Germany
Kate Shepherd, United States
Jurek Wybraniec, Australia

1995
Jim Malone, United States
Elizabeth McBride, United States
Carina Plath, Germany
Richard Schwartzwald, United States
Gwendolyn Smolka, Germany

1994
Rupert Deese, United States
Anders Kruger, Denmark
Joost van Oss, The Netherlands
Regina Stralka, Germany
Karen and Jörg Berg, Germany

1993
Stephan Baumkötter, Germany
Daniel Göttin, Switzerland
Andreas Karl Schulze, Germany
Sonny Thorbjirnsdottir, Iceland

1992
Ingólfur Arnarsson, Iceland
Nadja Nanopoulos, Greece

1991
Brian Wendleman, Sweden

1990
Ragna Hermannsdóttir, Iceland

1989
John Wesley, United States

Adam Davies

Adam Davies is a photographer whose work focuses on traces of human presence in natural landscapes. He uses a large-format Canham camera—complete with accordion bellows and hood—then has the film developed and scans his images in order to make large-scale (up to 32 x 40 inches) digital prints.

In the past, Davies often shot in and around the decaying industrial cities of the northeast. In his images, eroding remnants of industry vie for space with the creeping natural growth that appears to be slowly overtaking them. But the impulse behind the photographs doesn't seem to be a strictly documentary one, nor can the viewer easily locate any implied critique of or rebuke to the way in which cities and industries make use of the land.

The horizontally disposed southwestern landscape represents a new venture for Davies. During his residency, he scouted and shot in a large swath of West Texas, from Pecos to the north of Marfa to Presidio on the Mexican border. Davies showed eleven photographs from a larger body of new work at his exhibition at the Locker Plant.

The large format, and Davies' attention to color and texture, give his pictures an almost tactile quality; they are as alive to the senses as paintings. A picture of a bridge or overpass illustrated the way Davies' photos refuse pictorial convention. The bridge spans the image just above the center line. Above the span is a sloped array of hoodoo-like rock formations. Below the span is a lush stretch of river or creekbank. The three "strata" depicted—rocks, bridge, creek—don't seem to belong in the same photo. Yet they're clearly not spliced together. The picture doesn't come together in any conventional way.

Many of the photos sowed a similar seed of doubt or confusion, sometimes temporal as well as topographical. Two images of desert flats after a summer thunderstorm—full of soaked earth and soggy weeds—evoked sepia-toned battlefield pictures as much as classic landscape photography.

Adam Davies received a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in History from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University. He also has a Masters in Education from Harvard University and a Masters in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon. He has received a number of awards, including residencies at Yaddo in 2008 and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA in 2008-09. He has shown his work in solo exhibitions in Pittsburgh and Somerville, MA and participated in numerous group shows at venues in the U.S. and abroad. The spring 2009 edition (#6) of the web-based arts magazine Triple Canopy features a portfolio of his photographs.