Nov 30, 20182 min read

Tim Walker - Research

Brief introduction

I got introduced to Tim Walker by Nick White because he looked at my work and told me to look at the work of Walker because the work he creates is very fantasy like but he has everything in the frame he doesn't take anything in the frame separately. He has done work for Vogue where his photos have fascinated the readers each month for what's been over a decade. His style of photography is quite unmistakeable as he stages his images very out of the ordinary. He has been focusing on photographic stills for 15 years but has since moved on to shoot moving image as well.

How he got into photography

His interest in photography started at the Condé Nast Library in London where he worked on the archive of Cecil Beaton for a year before he started at university. In 1991 he started his three year degree in photography at Exeter College of Art where he was then awarded third prize as The Independent Young Photographer of the Year.

Once he had graduated he worked freelance as a photographic assistant in London before he decided to move to New York to be a full time assistant to Richard Avedon. Since then he has returned to the UK and started to just focus on portrait and documentary work for British newspapers. From this I think this is where he got his future work from because at the age of 25 he got he shot his first fashion story for Vogue and since has photographed for the British, Italian and American versions of Vogue as well as W Magazine and LOVE Magazine.

For this project I'm not looking into moving image as it's not what I have been focusing my project on so I didn't research into his moving image work but I did look at some of his work that was in his archive from previous works. I came across some work he shot for Italian Vogue in December 2015. I was drawn to this work because both Kate Moss and the horse were in the shot at the same time the horse hasn't been edited in to the frame. As a photographer I personally wouldn't want to do a shoot like this because I feel like it's taking photography to the next level and is a bit too extreme but I like Walker's confidence and aspirations for doing it. I guess he also has to do what the client wants him to do.