Mick Rock x Fin DAC – MIDARO Collaboration In The News

Mick and street artist Fin DAC have collaborated on a joint collaborations entitled “MIDARO”, consisting of four prints of original Mick Rock photos of Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Lou Reed, adapted and interpreted by Fin DAC.

The prints are available in runs of 51 each, and three of the original unique MIDARO prints will be auctioned with proceeds going to the NHS, mental health charity Calm and humanitarian agency Care International. Alongside these new works, Rock has dipped into his sizeable archive to select some personal favourite images, again each featuring one of the four subjects – Bowie, Reed, Harry and Iggy – between 1969 and 1980, which will be sold in three to five limited-edition sizes per print.

Visit http://west-contemporary-editions.com to shop the collections.

British GQhttps://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/mick-rock-fin-dac-bowie-2021

Reutershttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-mick-rock-idUSKBN2AU16R

NSS Magazinehttps://www.nssmag.com/en/art-design/25416/midaro-project-lou-reed

Show Studio
https://showstudio.com/news/the-iconic-photographer-mick-rock-releases-limited-edition-works

For my sins in a former life, I’ve been forced to spend an inordinate amount of time with musicians in this life. Of course, I love them.

A camera is a wonderful ally. It requires minimal maintenance and provides entry to a world of endless imagery.

My ambition was not to be a great photographer (though that certainly would have been a worthy stance). It was a lust to embrace anything that startled or energized me.

I am not in the business of documenting or revealing personalities. I am in the business of freezing shadows and bottling auras.

Without the rock ‘n rollers, I would not have developed as an image man.

You want to shock people with a bit of mystery and beauty. That’s my favorite kind of shocking.

I’ve never felt like a voyeur, although I’ve certainly done plenty of looking!

There’s an art to looking back - how to celebrate the past without being entrapped by it. Photographs provide the great physical link.

My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn’t owned by a magazine or a record label.

I smell pictures more than I see them and I hear pictures more than I can smell them. It’s very habit forming.