FAB PICTURES
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An eclectic collection of unique, vibrant images captured by British photographer Mike Ford over several decades during tours of Asia (incl. Thailand, Singapore and Laos), the Middle East (UAE), Europe (incl. England, Wales, France, Spain and the Netherlands), Australia and the USA. Most are of ordinary people, unstaged, going about their daily business but trapped in the instant after they first caught Ford’s roving eye.
Whether it’s their background of natural or urban landscape, the vivid light quality, the colour or pattern-play – in every case there’s something to elevate each image way above the ordinary.
In others, it’s their quirky, slightly unsettling subject matter or their question-provoking ability, prompting viewers to seek answers: who is this; where is this; perhaps, even, what exactly is this? All of them are conversation-starters.
Each image is now available to buy as gallery-quality* fine art, in sizes to suit the scale of your home, office or restaurant walls. All come mounted on tough Foamex rigid board ready to hang, as desired. Several images are offered in square format.
These unique images are not available elsewhere. Here you can order distinctive, decorative conversation starters and enliven your walls.
If you are searching for a specific orientation, you will find prints available in landscape, portrait and square orientations.
* More information on print quality can be found on each fine art print available on the Order Page.
A limited collection of Ford’s original fine art contemporary paintings are also available. View here.
MIKE FORD
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Born in the Midlands, Mike Ford was perhaps always destined for the creative world, his father was an artist and his home was full of art and artist friends. His formal education ended unspectacularly owing to undiagnosed dyslexia. Securing a place at art school he was inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and later by the fabulous photography of Vivian Maier. His flair quickly found an outlet and he was talent-spotted at his final year exhibition.
Ford’s first major mentor was 70’s-era fashion and interiors specialist Bob Belton. For five years Ford acted as Belton’s assistant based in the London studio also on three or four six week long fashion trips each year, all over the world, learning his craft and perfecting his artistic eye. Later, a chance introduction and a series of lucky breaks resulted in him becoming chief commercial photographer for a newspaper group, managing a team of four. This experience gave him the confidence to go it alone. By the mid-80s he was running two very busy commercial ‘Drive-in’ studio’s where he and his team were shooting 30-plus jobs per day. His clients included two major banks, BT and the BBC along with many commissions from National magazines, Television program makers as well as working a lot for the recording industry. Although lucrative, it was never quite creatively fulfilling.
After selling his business and now in retirement, Mike Ford returned to seeking-out and producing the kind of unposed street photography that first so inspired him: the colour, pattern and texture-rich; abstract buildings, people and objects which hint at an unknowable back-story.
His work is recognised internationally with exhibitions organised by galleries in France, Dubai and San Francisco.
All the photographs, images, website artwork and layout on this site are copyright © Mike Ford. Mike Ford asserts their moral, commercial and intellectual rights to be known as the author of works produced.
