MICK HUTSON, CELEBRATED music photographer, died on Thursday, June 1, 2023, aged 58.
Mick was especially known for his work for Metal Hammer and he photographed many of the biggest names in music, his pictures used on official album releases by Nirvana, AC/DC, Queens Of The Stone Age, Judas Priest and more.
Mick was born in Newcastle in May 1965 and grew up in Aberdeen. When he left school he worked on the North Sea oil rigs: 12 hours a day, 14 days on, 14 days off. On LinkedIn, he lists his occupation back then as “roughneck”: slang for an unskilled labourer on the drill floor. The Collins dictionary says that a roughneck is someone who is “not gentle or polite and can be violent” – that’s not even close to being a fair description of Mick, who was known for his good humour and charm.
In fact, he once told magazine that “the real secret of my photography, if
