Billy Joe Davis also known as 'Davis Icon' fine art photographer was born, raised, and still lives in Texas. My interests in fine art began at an early age and started with studying and working in oils, acrylics, sculpture and mixed media. During my beginning teen years my interests turned to high fashion and fine art photography, because of illness rheumatic fever/scarlet fever/lyme disease and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, I then turned from painting/drawing to photography. Many of my early influences in photography include Man Ray, Avedon, Sally Mann, Warhol, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin,...more