Davey’s work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group shows, including at Aperture, New York (2018), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2021), Richard Saltoun Gallery, London (2021), and Images Vevey, Switzerland (2022). Davey’s work is held by collections including the Science Museum, London, the V&A, London, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, and the Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, United Kingdom. She has won awards including the Arnold Newman Award for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture, New York (2016) and the Prix Virginia, Paris (2016). Her work was selected in three consecutive years, from 2015 to 2017, for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Davey’s book Looking for Alice (2015), chronicling the early years of her daughter born with Down’s syndrome, was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2016 and for the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation 2017 Book Awards. In 2018, she published her second book, Martha, which follows another of her four children.