❝ During his time as photo editor at National Geographic Magazine, I had the good fortune to work with Mike Davis on two major stories. He approached each of them  with intense preparations and research, often pointing me towards surprisingly little-known, yet important facts of my stories. During the edit itself I enjoyed his sensibility for unique, sometimes daring  photographs. And I’m the first to admit that his trained eye found frames I overlooked, which is incredibly valuable to me as a photojournalist working on long term assignments with tens of thousands of photographs. ❞

– Gerd Ludwig, freelance photographer of great renown