Richard Davis (born 1965) is a British social documentary and portrait photographer from Birmingham, UK.

After moving to Manchester in 1988 to study photography at the city’s polytechnic, Davis lived in Hulme, then the largest public housing development in Europe. The estate was going through a decline in living standards and was seen as a failure. Abandoned by the city council, it became home to a mixed bag of students, artists, and dropouts taking advantage of the many squats and cheap living conditions. Davis’s photographs document everyday life on the estate, which was dominated by the four large Brutalist buildings known as the infamous Hulme Crescents.