Photographer and writer Richard Davis was born and raised in Wiltshire, England. Initially living in Swindon before moving to the tiny hamlet of Upper Upham in the rolling Wiltshire downs, Richard developed a keen interest in history and travel. Initially using his parents’ Kodak instamatic camera, Richard bought his first SLR camera, a Russian made Zenit EM, when he was 15. He established a darkroom in the family bathroom and started processing his own black-and-white images around the same time. Graduating from Exeter University with a BSc. In Physics with Geophysics in 1984, Richard embarked on a travelling odyssey that, over the following 16 years, saw him live in Libya, South Africa, Brunei, Libya (again), Tunisia, Dubai, Oman, United States of America and France before settling in Texas, USA in 2000. In 1990, Richard was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and he graduated with an MBA from the University of Warwick in England in 1994.