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06.
07.Information
Jasper
Hunted + Gathered 
Kolido
Nose Magazine
Notes on Distance & Return
DJ Wise
Court Fool
01.Jasper 2026
Personal
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2/4
3/4
4/4
02.Winter 26 Campaign 2026
Hunted + Gathered
Comissioned
1/6
2/6
03.Placebo Campaign 2026
Kolido
Comissioned
1/4
2/4    Update 1995, White Columns
3/4    Update 1995, White Columns
4/4    Update 1995, White Column
Placebo was designed for the second issue of Nose Magazine to explore the influence of imagery on olfactory perception. In a small, informal experiment, the same perfume was presented to participants as two different scents, each paired with its own visual cues. People were then asked to describe what they smelled. Although the perfume was identical in both cases, responses varied widely.
04.Primed - Cover Story
2026
Nose Magazine Issue 02
Editorial
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1/9
2/9
3/9
4/9
5/9
05.Notes on Distance & Return
2026
Nose Magazine
Editorial
9/9
1/9
2/9
3/9
4/9
5/9
6/9
7/9
8/9
 We often conceptualise museums as facilities of preservation. However, this preservation tends to be associated with the objects behind the displays rather than the facility itself. In regular life, the objects and environments we interact with change in tandem with our bodies. When I return to a place after an extended hiatus, both the environment and my body have been weathered, amended, and aged by time. What was disorienting in this instance was that this museum seemed to exist as an almost perfect time capsule of itself, separated from the temporal nature of the rest of the world.

Table Manners was a play on the phenomenon, whereby plastic or ‘fake’ food was, to me, emblematic of this perceptual framework. Like a memory, they’re inherently ‘other’, understood as artificial preservations of something organic and all too perishable. Our dealings with these stand-ins are familiar, uncanny, distant, and finally illusory. Form is preserved; touch, taste and smell are absent, supplied only by prior association.
06.Press Kit 
2026
DJ Wise
Comissioned
2/3
1/2
07.Court Fool
2026

Personal
1/4
2/4    Update 1995, White Columns
3/4    Update 1995, White Columns
4/4    Update 1995, White Columns
Court Fool is a photographic story that explores the shifting roles we inhabit
in daily life through the language of performance. Set within a stylised, theatrical world, the series examines the paradox of self-presentation. Are we expressing who we truly are, or merely performing the roles we’ve internalised? Court Fool questions whether any essential truth can be uncovered in our expressions of self, or whether all expression is, inevitably, a kind of mask.
Information
Photographer based in Melbourne / Naarm

For all commissions and enquiries:

studio@samuelrdavis.com








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