Mick Davidson

My abstracts range from unusual views of everyday things to total abstraction. This is the new art form of total pixel destruction, where light, form and colour are crushed and twisted into another version of beauty.

East in the West. My advice, grasshopper, is to read Zen Flesh, Zen Bones.

I like to think of myself as a conservator, saving some fabulous works of art before time, the law or another can of paint obliterates them.

As a musician myself, I'm fascinated by what happens on stage, how people look when they're lost in their instrument or voice, the clothes they wear and how alien they all look when soaked in bright red light. Beware!, some of these fotos have been manipulated!

Many of these fotos are taken in surreptitiously, because I want to capture people and their relationships to the art around them and to each other without them being distracted by my lens.  Doing this introduces an element of randomness that helps remove some of the control freak tendency all fotografers have.

Little bits of me really.

These fotos are taken surreptitiously in a variety of public places. This is because I want to capture people and their relationships to each other, and the surrounding architecture without me controlling the light and where the focus is etc. I have introduced an element of randomness that has remove the control freak tendency all fotografers have.

I'm fascinated by the sky, there's so much of it, and yet we ignore it by and large. Here in the Netherlands the  skies are very large indeed. If you can get high enough, you can see the world rolling on and on, gradually disappearing into what's known as the low sky. These pictures are an attempt to bring it into view. Although I often have to zoom in a little, I prefer to use the full width of my 18mm lens to capture a sliver of the horizon and as much as possible of the sky and it's contents.  Doing this makes you look at the sky that is right overhead, and  not at something that is far, far away.