STEPHEN DAVISON - 'WORLD'S NO.1 PURE ROAD RACING PHOTOGRAPHER'
Stephen Davison, hailed by MCN as ‘the world’s Number One pure road racing lensman’, is the author of Joey Dunlop: King of the Roads, Beautiful Danger, Ragged Edge, Robert Dunlop: The Life and Times of a Legend (joint), Hard Roads, and the latest Between the Hedges, which have sold over 80,000+ copies to date.
Stephen is from Tardee Co.Antrim, and been a road-racing fan since he attended his first race in 1974. davison is the recipient of various photographic awards, and joint owner of the prestigious photographic agency Pacemaker Press International. His work makes an excellent present for the most discerning Road Racing fans!
Award-winning photographer and author of five bestselling road racing books, Stephen Davison looks set to be on the road to his sixth bestseller with the publication of Between the Hedges: a celebration of 40 years of road racing.
Stephen's latest book celebrates his lifelong love affair with road racing, bringing together the best photographs from his own work with the archive of fellow road racing photographer Clifford McLean.
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In his 6th title, Flying Finn, Stephen Davison charts the spectacular career of Martin Finnegan, one of Ireland’s most colourful and successful road racers.
Finnegan scored podium finishes at all of the world’s top road race meetings and won the Irish Senior championship. The 28 year old Lusk, Co Dublin rider burst on to the scene with a spectacular riding style that attracted a huge following of loyal fans. Finnegan became Irish champion in 2004 before stepping on to the podium at all of the world’s major road races. Tragically this great promise was cut short when the most successful southern Irish racer in a generation was to lose his life in a racing crash at the Tandragee 100 in May 2008.
Flying Finn, the new book by Martin’s close friend and foremost road racing photographer, Stephen Davison, captured Martin’s rise to fame and his tragic demise.Enjoying privileged and unprecedented access, Davison recorded the highs and lows of Finnegan’s career.In over 150 images, accompanied by perceptive and often moving text, the road racing’s principal chronicler has documented Martin’s rise to prominence and the pain of his family following his death.
Drawn in by his easy going nature and brilliance on a bike, Martin and I became good friends. He wanted to win races and catch headlines and I wanted to capture the best racing images that I could. We travelled the world together living the road racing life to the full, racing and photographing it in the same way.’ Stephen Davison
