Reviews
“With the obsessive dedication of the artist, Mick has captured with his small camera a myriad of moments, moods, memories and meanings out of the air of his everyday world ……”
“These are pictures pulled from the peripheries of vision and occasion, tracing the very edges of memory…”
Joanna Lowry (Creative Camera)
“The “daily-ness” of life lived however, is not prosaic, not superficial, and filtered through Mick’s lens, no longer ordinary. It becomes warm, often gently humerous, and always magical, mysterious and dreamlike, not so much as his “life story” as a fairy tale …” - Virginia Khuri (Contemporary Photography)
“Some of his pictures looked like black and white film stills, others looked like images which a painter might have made, whilst others still contained action, mystery and narrative …. Each picture gives the impression of having a story wrapped around it ...”
“The selected extracts demonstrated his excellent eye for detail, spontaneity, and his ability to capture those special moments which seem to constitute memory…”
- Julian Rodriguez (Annual of the British Journal of Photography)
“However his images are not sombre but celebratory… Williamson offers us something of the wide-eyed wonder and fascination of a child’s vision filtered through an adult sensibility.”
“The impression left on the observer is in fact one of continuity and duration.The image is then seen to be standing in for a continuous sequence and may be likened to the medium of film.”
- Addie Vassie (Gallery Vassie)
“The images act as partial, gentle fragments which invite an attentiveness towards the everyday, the non-glamorous. These moments fix what is transitory whilst retaining the arbitrariness of the initial moment…”
“These images are invariably imbued with light, objects are touched by grace.”
- Ian Robertson (The Photo-Diaries of Mick Williamson)
“However, what many of these photographs have in common…is a strong sense of the transformative nature of light.”
“Gary Winogrand is said to have photographed ‘the visual cacophony’ of city streets, Lee Freidlander has made humorous and poignant images amongst the chaos of city life; Mick Williamson shares this constant fascination of the city and life within it, with both Winogrand and Friedlander, but his body of work is quiet and poetic, full of enigma, drawn from the peripheries of his own vision.”
“Mick’s photographs are effervescent and luminous, made with a sense of joy and of life being lived. … Like all good friends they are charming, funny and always make you glad you’ve seen them.”
- Heather McDonough (FLIP Magazine)