Background
Tim Walker was born in 1970 in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom. Walker was a young boy when his father died and his mother remarried. Walker has a brother and two nephews, Ed and Will.
Tim Walker
2008
Tim Walker at British Fashion Awards. Photo by PA Photos.
2017
2 East 61st Street At, 5th Ave, New York, NY 10065, United States
Tim Walker speaks onstage during the Pirelli Calendar 2018 Launch press conference at The Pierre Hotel, New York City. Photo by Gary Gershoff.
‘Kate Moss, reclining in the Coco Chanel suite’ by Walker was purchased at Christie’s in London for $48,224 in 2013.
2008
Tim Walker at British Fashion Awards. Photo by PA Photos.
2017
2 East 61st Street At, 5th Ave, New York, NY 10065, United States
Tim Walker speaks onstage during the Pirelli Calendar 2018 Launch press conference at The Pierre Hotel, New York City. Photo by Gary Gershoff.
‘Kate Moss, reclining in the Coco Chanel suite’ by Walker was purchased at Christie’s in London for $48,224 in 2013.
Tim Walker
Tim Walker
Tim Walker was born in 1970 in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom. Walker was a young boy when his father died and his mother remarried. Walker has a brother and two nephews, Ed and Will.
Tim Walker spent his early years in Dorset county, South Western England. The drawing was among his favorite childish hobbies. Having no goals to engage himself with photography, he was fascinated by clothes and dreamt of becoming a stylist or a writer.
Walker developed an interest in photography while serving at Cecil Beaton archive a year before university. In 1994, he received a Bachelor of Arts from Exeter College of Art and Design.
Tim Walker began his career in the middle of the 1990s when he freelanced as a photographic assistant in London. He then relocated to New York City where he became an assistant to Richard Avedon.
Upon his return to the United Kingdom, Walker focused on portrait and documentary photography for different British periodicals. In 1995, he produced the first fashion story for Vogue. Since then, he has contributed his pictures to a variety of national and foreign magazines, like W Magazine and LOVE Magazine among others.
The debut major solo show of the photographer took place at the Design Museum, London in 2008. That same year, the collection of his images was gathered in a volume 'Pictures'.
Two years later, Tim Walker tried his hand in moviemaking by presenting his first short film entitled ‘The Lost Explorer’ at Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland. The following year, it received good reviews at the Chicago United Film Festival.
In 2012, the visitors of London’s Somerset House had a possibility to contemplate Waller’s works from his ‘Story Teller’ photographic series. A year later, Walker collaborated with Lawrence Mynott and Kit Hesketh-Harvey on the portraiture collection 'The Granny Alphabet'.
The next major retrospective of more than 100 of his early and new works was organized at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2016. In addition, the show led to the collaborative project in which Walker featured ten objects he loved the best in the archive of the art venue on his photos.
Nowadays, Tim Walker lives and works in London.
Tim Walker is considered one of the foremost photographers in the industry of fashion photography.
The creativity of his shots was acknowledged by the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London which included his works in their permanent collections.
Walker has been a recipient of the Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator from The British Fashion Council and the Infinity Award from The International Center of Photography.
In 2013, 'Kate Moss, reclining in the Coco Chanel suite' by Walker was purchased at Christie’s in London for $48,224.
Banksy & his Wildstyle Cow
Tilda Swinton in Exaggerated Collar
Miss Pandemonia Fries an Egg
Jordan Robson & Emma Watson in Homage to Jean Cocteau
Marion Cotillard
Helena Bonham Carter
Niko Riam Fashion
Kate Moss
Duckie Thot and Harry Alexander, Cat Walking
Claire Foy, Smoking Queen
Rollo Hesketh-Harvey and his Baguette Biplane
Lisa Ratliffe with Pink Pastel Cat
Inside Outside
Mari Hirao and Yui Yamamoto operating Gen H-4 flying machines
Richard Quinn's Floral Chair and Living Mannequin
Lily Donaldson in Blue Spitfire
Outside Inside, Eglingham Hall Bathroom
Lily on fish hook (Lily Cole)
Karen Elson at Piano with Singing Lion
The Dress Lamp Tree
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Daniel Day-Lewis
David Attenborough
Jennifer Lawrence
Gilbert & George
Vivienne Westwood & Andreas Kronthaler
Amy Adams
Tim Burton & Malgosia Bela
Self-portrait with Eighty Cakes
Mahershala Ali
Troye Sivan & Rami Malek
Willem Dafoe
James Spencer
Tim Walker says that he draws inspiration for his surrealist dreamlike pictures from the everyday things and events that surround all of us, including seen on TV, in movies, books, newspapers and on photographs of his fellows.
Quotations:
"I started using the camera as a way of capturing a mood I wanted to express. To me, a photograph is far stronger when something is suggested rather than defined. If you define it there is nowhere for your imagination to go."
"I’m not so motivated by fashion and brands."
"I’m more interested in who’ll let me do what I want to do. I think that I’ve always used the fashion industry as a mechanism to fund and support my work; and if they let me and they’re happy then that’s fine."
"Not that my upbringing is any better than anyone else’s but I know the privilege of growing up feral, being allowed to run around gave me a lot of what I draw on now."
"I’m not comfortable with people looking at technology too much, because it takes you out of reality in a relentless, needy way."
"I am very into all creative people who I work with, whether it’s Fredrik Tjærandsen or McQueen, I want them to own and enjoy and exist within their photograph."
Tim Walker was named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2012.
