scott b. davis was born and raised in the suburbs of Washington D.C., and from a young age had eyes on places west of the Mississippi. He became interested in photography in the early 1990s and was soon drawn to unremarkable wilderness corridors-the places where maps offered little, if any, information. These spaces demand research to learn what, if anything, one might find there, and generally benefit those who learn the history of its use in earlier times. Today, davis's interest in history and place drives his work, and encourages him in taking an active role as a traveler in the landscape.
In the mid-1990s, davis's work with photography led him to explore nineteenth-century photographic processes and formulas. He found the possibilities of platinum/palladium printing were a good fit with the large format cameras he was using. These tools formed the basis of his work and continue to drive the photographs he makes today.
His work is held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA), George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY), The J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Kiyosato, Japan), and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO) among others. He currently resides in San Diego, CA.