Tim Walker – Fashion Photographer
Having recently seen an exhibition of Tim Walker’s pictures at the Design Museum, London, I’d highly recommend catching it if you can, as it runs until the 7th September, 2008.
Tim creates evocative images full of textured nuance and intriguing detail and his innovative photography is amongst the most imaginative and exuberant being produced today.
He draws upon his childhood to construct sets for his images that are witty and playful yet sufficiently sophisticated enough to perform for his fashion clients.
Its the sort of thinking that I could imagine creating lots of fun during a shoot (aside from the hard work in creating it of course) as well as in conceiving his ideas.
For instance, deciding to colour tint a group of cats or projecting a film onto the side of a house, or screen set within a rising tide at sunset. Or posing his models in an oversized knitted sweater and scarf, next to a huge camera or glove or under a tree bearing cakes.
The exhibition places some of these oversized objects amidst large prints of his photos and also presents some of his artistic process, from inspiration to execution, via sketch and scrapbook pages.
Definitely alot of effort required, and it pays off.
Biography
Tim Walker is a photgrapher based in London. Tim’s interest in photgraphy began during work experience at Condé Nast where he set up the Cecil Beaton archive.
After graduating from Exeter Art College, he worked as a freelance photographic assistant before working as Richard Avedon’s assistant in New York.
His career as a photographer was launched when he came third in the Inpependent Young Photographer of the Year Award, and he went on to contribute to high-profile magazines including Vogue, W and Harper‘s Bazaar.
He has also shot advertising campaigns for clients including Barneys, Comme des Garcons, Gap and Yohji Yamamoto.
Tim Walker represented by Thomas Treuhaft
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I absolutely love Tim Walker’s work. The amount of detail and his ideas and themes are amazing
Purely fantastic.
I AM A WONDERFUL PAPER ARTIST.I CREATE HAND PAPER FASHION ACCESSORIES AND AM LOOKING FOR A CONTACT WITH MR TIM WALKER.PLEASE LOOK AT MY SITE AND SEE HOW IT CONNECTS WITH MR WALKER WORK.I AM SURE WE CAN COLLABORATE WITH OUR WORKS.
THANK YOU IDA
THIS IS ABSOLUTLEY GREAT SHOW OF PICTURES.
THANK YOU
IDA RAK
Learned about this guy from Fashion Television, and I HAD to google him and find more of his art – fantasic! So imaginative!
BUT it’s super hard to find an image actually big enough to use as a desktop background!!!!!!!!
I love Tim Walker! His work is very creative. The way he demostrate a concept in a photograph is a total genius.
His work is amazing. Do someone knows if he exhibits anything in Newyork? Or know a website were it’s possible to find out?
Off the chain. So breathtaking. So imaginitve, evocative. Peace, kelly.
Does anyone know the name of the Vogue UK September 2006 article with the spread (pictured by Tim Walker) featuring the country house having the film screened onto it?
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tim walker, you are brilliant. im doing a graphic design course and you have inspired me in so many of my projects, i love your work
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