Contemporary Images by Mark Robert Davey

MRD works in black and white, paying attention to detail and reducing the images to the essential. He tilts his camera a lot and as a result he gets his certain angle as can be seen on the photograph of the mysterious door in Venice. Combining simple structural and textural elements with orchestrated interplay of bright highlights and deep shadows MRD creates a poetic atmosphere both romantic and haunting within his images.

"Dark mysteries lurk in the deserted alleys and doorways. To walk with him down the shadowy streets of Venice and Prague is to journey through a spectral past with forebodings of trance-like encounters with the wandering spirits of Josef K. and Poe's Fortunato." (B&W Magazine, 39. Oct. 2005)

Born in 1968 in Ilford, Essex and brought up in North Wales. MRD is based in Machynlleth, Mid Wales and exhibits his work internationally.

Recent Exhibition :

Panorama Wales - www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/archiv/ausstell/2008/wales.html