PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK ROBERT DAVEY

MRD works in black and white, paying attention to detail and reducing the images to the essential. He often tilts his camera and as a result gets certain angles as can be seen on the photograph of the Louvre, Paris. 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 photographic 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, Great Britain and exhibits his work internationally.

Currently MRD is working on new work which will be exhibitied in 2012

The photograph on the previous page shows Glastonbury Tor, Somerset, photographed in 2009.