When I purchase the latest issue of British vogue I tend to run home, change swiftly into my sweats, get some hot water boiling for some tea and guiltily start reading the magazine backwards. And it’s for one reason only. Mr. Tim Walker. Where has he been to now?
India?
Marrakesh?
Russia? Who is he painting pink now?
A cat, a horse, an elephant? Which world is he re-creating? What props is he using? Such beautiful narratives intertwined with doll-like faces.
The fashion photographer never eases to shock me with awe. His photo shoots remind me more of theater sets, and if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’d know I have a great passion for all things performance, particularly the theatrical stage.
His photography which is now displayed at the Design Museum is filled with immaculate detail, every prop and texture has been thought of. When visiting his exhibition at the
Design Museum I was at complete awe at his thought process where I scoured his scrapbooks, notes, drawings, and photographs. Tim Walker puts together these scrapbooks filled with ideas and snapshots for his future shoots.
The backdrop of the photographs were the larger than life props he had used for his shoots. But what was wondrous to me was the ability his photographs had to transport me into another world. A world of imagination, desire, and entertainment. Photography has always been a huge part of my life, starting with the thousands of albums I have of me growing up. A camera always around, my mother made sure to document and capture every family trip, every birthday cake, and school play. Laid out in chronological order my life is documented in large binded photo albums now sitting in volumes in the living room of our home. In between watching my favorite soaps I tend to pick one out and start flipping the large glossy pages to glimpse moments of my life posing with Minnie mouse in Disney and eating ice cream in Cannes.
My true relationship with photography was further explored when I left to go to summer camp in England when I was 14 years old with some friends. For the first time my mother was not there clicking away. And I was entrusted with the family camera, which I then lost at a football match on my last week in camp, to take my own photos. I’m so grateful it wasn’t a digital film and rather than losing hundreds of photos I had 9 rolls of film waiting to be printed out. Since then I have constantly been armed with my camera, documenting absolutely everything in my life in a very amateur way.
Walker offers me inspiration to make my own real moments, to then go home and make some sense out of them. His photographs are reminiscent of his childhood and roots back to happy times from mine. Everything he photographs is connected to his drawings of his child, and it is so easy to immerse myself in his notions of childhood and memories. I also managed to record some part of the short film at the Design Museum showing Tim Walker putting the shoot together on youtube. Click here if you want to take a look-see.
The Photographs
The Scrapbooks
The Props
7 comments:
Thanks for the Tim Walker tribute! He is one of my favorites as well. I wish I was in London so I could see the exhibition at the Design Museum. I must find a way to get there...
Alexandra
I saw this exhibition last week.
It was amazing...my favourite photgrapher is David Lachapelle, but i was surprised to love also Tim Walker...he is great and so creative!
Annie from Italy
I have to say that this is fantastic post, especialy The Photographs part! ;)
FM
Greetings,
Thanks for sharing the link - but unfortunately it seems to be not working? Does anybody here at fashionambitions.blogspot.com have a mirror or another source?
Cheers,
Harry
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